akashdeep

hi , i m new to this site and new to to things by my seld. i wan to install a sub and a amp in my car. i m stuck at couple of points. i know i have to run the powere wiring under the carpet. for what i need is to remove the door siils . my problem is in honda civic 2000 se. the door sills r too deep in the carpet. i don't know how to get them out. it looks like i have to remove the driver seat to get under the carpet. i hope i will get some help here so i can do it on weekend. thanks

D.T.P

What I always do when I run wires for amp is pop off the plastic cover that you see when you open a door and tuck the power cable there. If its a 2dr, then when you get to the rear panel I just stick it up the side panel. When you get to rear seat, at the very end of the panel just feed it across under the seat and you're in the trunk. Do the same with remote/rca cables. Though I usually do it on an opposite side since the plastic tends to lift if there are too many wires and for sound quality.

I've done 7 cars like that and it always work with usually 0 wire showing.

Leung

is the power cable drilling through the firewall at all?

Darrylmcl

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agree with scrider.. place them underneath the kick panels (whatever you call them). I have the same car and did it for mine last year, I couldnt bother taking them completely off... so what I did what take a large screwdriver... pried them up and the stuck the handle part of the screw driver in there to give me space to play with and feed the wires.
I did take off the middle panel right underneath the seat belt... all you need for that is a flat head and some strength to pry it off.

RCA's and remote wire go on opposite side.

akashdeep

sigh today i feed my power cable from battery to inside my car. it was very hard for me. because i don't know much abt cars. and the spot near the batery to inside the car was very hard to find. but i did it. did no drilling. tomarrow im going to run power wire to back of my trunk. thanks for the help and tips.

akashdeep

need urgent help. i m installing kdc-mp228 in honda civic 2000 se . i need to install the remote wire to my deck.(from amplifier) i can't find which wire will connect to that blue wire. plzzz help me fast . thanks

jaromer

on most wiring of the wiring harness i've seen there should be a tag that says remote just splice it into that wire

D.T.P

The remote wire from the deck is usually blue. Says rem/remote on it. It should be 1 of the few wires that are unused from the whole cluster.

akashdeep

thanks yes , i find it. i ran into a small problem. i lost my ground cable from the kit . any one know from where i can get 4 guage ground wire and connector for that wire in GTA. all i find was full kits. and i cut remote wire(blue wire) by mistake short and connect it again. is this make any problem?
thanks

D.T.P

I usually get all the wiring cut by foot from a1 electronics in etobicoke. Its cheaper than getting a full kit.
Now for remote wire, as long as you have a good connection it will be fine, since remote wire just triggers the amp to turn on/off whenever the deck is getting power.

akashdeep

thanks , i will go check their store in this week.

rick10

agree

What gauge wire is the best to wire an amp? ..

Darrylmcl

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Recommended Power and Ground Cable Sizes

For both power and ground in my 00 Civic SE, I used 4 gauge in my car... I'd say it wasn't completely necessary and some my say it's spot on. i figured I'd rather overkill it, than under estimate and kick myself later

akashdeep

im using 4 gauge too.

D.T.P

4gauge is nice. Had to wire a car with 2gauge wire, that was a pita.
Back in the day I had 6 gauge and had no problems. But again the 10s didn't push more than 300watt each.

rick10

thanks !

thats a good site

akashdeep

finally i put every thing to gather but got no power in amplifier.i checked power fuse thats allright.i get 12 v at amplifier when i check with multimeter. what could be wrong? i have conected rem wire too. but i don't know how to chek if it is getting power or its not.

D.T.P

When your deck is on, touch the positive side of multimeter to the rem wire at the amp, then ground it off anywhere. Watch the reading.

akashdeep

i find it. two fuses 25A were blown. working now

akashdeep

my 25 amp. 2 fusese on my amp keep blowing up every after runnning few hrs.
i have pioneer dm 510 mono class D amplifier . running 2 12 inch subs. what could be wrong. and im not getting much loudness. is this amp is good to run two 12 inch subs? need help