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My car is a r32 gts-t, 2 door coupe, Type M, and i cant quite figure out where to run my wires through. i cut a hole in the firewall and have run them through that through doorstep trim to the seats. Thats where the problem is really. Behind the seats is a metal backing so its very hard to run them through. How can i run them past? If i remove the seat backs will i be able to find a hole in the metal backing?

thx

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My car is a r32 gts-t, 2 door coupe, Type M, and i cant quite figure out where to run my wires through. i cut a hole in the firewall and have run them through that through doorstep trim to the seats. Thats where the problem is really. Behind the seats is a metal backing so its very hard to run them through. How can i run them past? If i remove the seat backs will i be able to find a hole in the metal backing?

thx

cool bro, behind the rear set their are heaps of holes were ya can run ya power wire through. i used the stock hole in the fire wall. and ran the power wires along the drivers side.. then ran the 3 sets of RCAs along the pas side(only did it that way to keep the sound off guys happy)

I removed the metal back thing, it only has one hook for the back seat , the fixed parts of the the rear seat can still latch onto the other two hooks on the left and right side.

it just has about 7 10mm bolts holding it up on the back, if ya remove it you will get more bass in the cabin as well :P

good luck with it, hope i helped ya mate

kezza

thanks man, i just did what you said cept i ran all my wires on drivers side. Now only problem im having is with getting the stupid seats back together, i can only lift one side up high enough to get it to clip in. Will get a crow bar later and sort it out. I'll look into unhooking that black thing, test with and without it

thx agian

thanks man, i just did what you said cept i ran all my wires on drivers side. Now only problem im having is with getting the stupid seats back together, i can only lift one side up high enough to get it to clip in. Will get a crow bar later and sort it out. I'll look into unhooking that black thing, test with and without it

thx agian

not a problem mate, i would bother testing... with or with out the back plate, you wont ever put it back in once you have heard the subs! lol

Yeah the rear of the seat can be a pain to push up to the height of the rear window, just to hook it in.

good luck with it mate

kezza

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