+12v in the boot for sub

[GeraintUK]

You can feed big cable through bulkhead.
As mentioned there is a hole and grommet behind steering wheel that is accessible by removing the plenum cover to the left of the wiper motor.

I didn't want to run across the engine bay though as I did a battery to boot conversion so I made a new hole feed by removing the ecu and pollen filter. It then allows to feed through behind passenger footwell fusebox.
Easy run then into the boot.

I have seen a car begin smoking as the cable melted that was misfitted so I am overly safety concious these days.

So long as fused, it should be fine whatever you use if done correctly but for me if you are going to do a job, do it right, do it once and forget about it.

hth
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[Supervinnie40]

Well... it's done. And it's ridiculous how easy it was.... The 75 keeps surprising me how easy it can be to work on a car.

Here is what I did today (in total it took me just over 3 hours, and most that time I spent searching for a lost screw...)

First I searched for the hole people mentioned in the bulkhead. But I couldn't really find anything. It could be that some things are on the other side then the UK cars, but I still couldn't find an easy entrance.
Then I looked at the cable to pop the bonnet and I realised that that has to go in the car somewhere. Just next to the wiper motor, where the cable goes into the car (mine is LHD remember) there was a little grommet. I think this is the one you guys where talking about. So I took some electrical wire with a solid core (using this to pull the power cable through) and pushed it through. Then I checked under the steering wheel and I could already see the wire. So I removed the interior part underneath the steering wheel (screws at the bottom) and pulled the wire through.Because I also need to run an audio wire and the remote wire to the back, I decided to run everything from the middle console to the back. So I pushed the wire through a small hole in into the compartment with the radio/ac etc.
I took out the radio/ac/ashtray and taped up all the wires together and fed them down into a small opening towards the gearshift. Kept pushing and I saw it appear underneath the handbrake.
I removed the screws of the middle console (push the seat down and you'll see them), removed the ashtray in the back and undid the bolts.
Then I want onto the back seat. I read somewhere that some cars have a cord hidden underneath the back seats to release the back. Keeping my fingers crossed, I searched for it. And found it . I pulled the back forward, by doing this I must have pressed/puched something because the backseats came loose. After a bit of gentle pulling they came right out. (this is gonna make replacing the parcel shelf a lot easier...)

I then used a big plastic stick to push underneath the carpet right under the back seat and lifted it up a bit. Then I pushed it further in, and inch by inch I lifted up the carpet in the middle. I took some solid core electric wire and fed it through from the back seat towards the front, and it popped out just behind the bolts behind the rear-ashtray.
I then connected the wire to the electrical wires and pulled them right though.

Then it was just a matter of putting back the seats and the back, putting the bolts and screws back in their place for the console and putting the radio/ac etc back in.

Only 2 downsides....
By searching for the grommet I tried to pull away a bit of the plastic underneath the window.... and I lost it. I also lost 1 screw for the radio... (the brass-looking screw in the top of the radio).

So, my next question is going to be: can anybody help me with a screw for the radio and one of those clips for the plastic strip underneath the front window...??

I also did the wires for the rear camera, with power from the rear-light.
Next thing will be to install the right fuse for the amp and connect the wire to the battery. Then it's just a matter of waiting until I have enough money to buy the radio+camera I want from Radioguy.

I'm not gonna do the parking sensors today, because apparantly, they don't sell 27cm drills. They have 25, 26 and 28, but no 27....