Running speaker wire to door speakers

I am planning on mounting my amps under the rear seat of my Yukon. The front and rear speakers are in the doors of the truck though.

Is there any tricks or tips to running speaker wire to door panels, or do you just re-use part of the stock speaker wires? Any suggestions?

-Scott


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2002 GMC Yukon SLT non-Bose
Pioneer AVIC N3

You can string new wire but it would be a major pain. The only time I string new wire is if the car is older or if the customer has to have new wire ran and they are payin'. Factory wiring will handleit,  I would use it.

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So do I just run speaker wire from the amp down to the kick panel and splice it in there?

Thanks.

-Scott

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2002 GMC Yukon SLT non-Bose
Pioneer AVIC N3

It might be easier to grab it right behind the radio, thats usually were I connect it up.

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Unless the vehicle has a factory amplified system, then it is best to go to the speakers. It is not that difficult to go to the door speakers which is the proper way to do it. You run less wire with less connections this way. Zero chance of running into a factory amplified line as well. While it takes longer, this is the way to do it properly. Can it be done as suggested, yes, most definitely it can.Some vehicles do not lend themselves to big extra bundles of wire in behind them either. Take for example the GM pickup and fussy cusomer I had here yesterday.

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Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.

Its a non-bose system and there is a lot of room behind the radio in the dash on this one. Some vehicles are nearly impossible to string through the door boot. This was suggested because it a much simpler way for a diy'er. I see what your saying Rob I agree that it would be the most professional way to wire an amp to door speakers. In my defense, I try to avoid popping door panels off unless its necessary. 

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I'm not sure if there is an amp or not on my system.  It's hard to believe they run 9 speakers, including a subwoofer off of the head unit though.  

Thanks for all of the input.

-Scott

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2002 GMC Yukon SLT non-Bose
Pioneer AVIC N3

Your amp is behind the glove box.

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My ex once told me I have a perfect face for radio.

Please running wire to the doors isn't that hard. Take a house zip tie(Its a huge zip tie atleast a foot long) cut the end of into a point, drill some holes to help hold the wires on, us tape to secure them more. And viola a snake. Just run it in small stages and its cake.

If it helps the few cars I have ran wire through the doors be it speakers or poppers ect. just be carefull and take off the rubber boot from the door jam to the door. Then all you have to do is push it through the boot and snap the boot back in the jam and your done.

Correct it is not hard to run wires into the door for you or anybody else that has done it before. But, if someone is requesting an easier way (hint) which will produce the same results why not tell them. Removing door panels is easy also for some people others its not so easy so if possible why not suggest a way get signal to a door speakers to avoid removing the door panels.  Not trying to beat this issue to death but come on is there really a  differecen to soldering in the connections a few feet upstream and retaining a little bit of factory wire, I don't think so........

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Taking the door panels off isn't the problem. I had to do that to replace the speakers. Its running the wire through the boot and stuff into the door. The zip tie idea is good. I'll give that a try. If not, then I'll just re-use part of the factory wire. I don't think it will matter too too much since I don't have super high end speakers, or am using a lot of wattage for them or anything.

-Scott



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2002 GMC Yukon SLT non-Bose
Pioneer AVIC N3