Door speaker wiring.

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Three ways that I know of:
1.  What I currently have are my wires on the inside of the car.  That is, 
you can see them, they're exposed.
2.  As previously suggested you can route the wires through the pillar.  
Just make sure every thing is water tight!
3.  What I've seen for American street rods are electrical contacts that 
are extremely low profile.  One mounts to the door and the other mounts to 
the pillar.  When the door is closed a connection is made and the 
electricity flows.  The down side is if you open the door the connection is 
broken and your speaker won't work (but how often do you drive down the 
road with your doors open? :P )  This makes for a *very* clean setup.

For those of you who aren't concerned with a stock vehicle I would 
recommend getting a "Hot Rod" or other similar street rod magazine once in 
awhile.  Many good ideas and products (electric windows and locks, digital 
gauges, solenoid systems, etc.) can be found.
     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L modified to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 stock 1.8L


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Subject: sundry door questions
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    2/19/97 12:47 AM


hey all-
a couple of questions.  i've got some good ideas about the stereo mount,
so now the question is the speakers.  i think i'm going for a door mount
(please, let's not throw any tomatoes at the nice boy) and my
drafting and modeling (no, not *that* kind of modeling) experience should
enable me to do a well-crafted job.  my question is:  what's the best way
to get the wires into the door?  getting them there to that point should
be no problem, but do i drill a hole in the door, or is there a better
way?  also, how do i keep the wires from binding up with the motion of the
door once they arte installed?

second item.  my driver's side window goes down only with great
difficulty.  it seems to be binding up as it goes down in bursts,
accompanied by a creak-creak-creak-THUNK noise.  it goes up with relative
smoothness, however.  i pulled the door apart
today to see what i could see, but i saw nothing obvious, and now that
it's back together the
exterior handle is tough to use. am i a total moron?  help!


cooper
'72 SqB

Cooper N. Melton, Esq.
221 Gildersleeve, Brown College at Monroe Hill
University of Virginia
School of Architecture
coop@virginia.edu
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