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Old Jan 7, 2007 | 11:30 AM
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Running Speaker wire today..

Still awaiting my power wire to arrive, but I'm going to run my speaker wire and RCA's today.

Question: I know that power wire is to run on the opposite side of the RCA's, which is fine.

However: What about speaker wire? Since there are speakers on both sides of the truck, the speaker wire is going to have to run next to the 2 AWG power wire that comes from the battery. This OK?
 
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Old Jan 7, 2007 | 01:40 PM
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Yes its OK.
 
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Old Jan 7, 2007 | 06:41 PM
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Hey Sspiro would you let me know how to run the speaker wire. I will be installing an amp hopefully next weekend and this is the only part that I am unsure aobut.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2007 | 12:37 AM
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I'm no pro, but I asked my installer that did my Tahoe about this and he told me that the speaker wires are OK to run next to power, but to separate RCA from power. He also said that in a perfect world nothing would be close to power. I minimized things and only ran the wires I absolutely had to next to power. This includes the wires for the XM module, which has now been replaced by sirius.

In his customs, he gets to run it under the carpet through the middle. I'm not taking the seats and carpet out to run power though.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2007 | 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by BigDave4
I'm no pro, but I asked my installer that did my Tahoe about this and he told me that the speaker wires are OK to run next to power, but to separate RCA from power. He also said that in a perfect world nothing would be close to power. I minimized things and only ran the wires I absolutely had to next to power. This includes the wires for the XM module, which has now been replaced by sirius.

In his customs, he gets to run it under the carpet through the middle. I'm not taking the seats and carpet out to run power though.
Yeah, ideally I like to do the same - but don't feel like removing seats, etc.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2007 | 10:05 AM
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Let us know how getting wires into the doors works out.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2007 | 10:13 AM
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Haven't done it yet.. Wanted to yesterday, but was too busy with other projects.
 
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