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konafocuswrc,Mar 12 2008, 04:18 PM Wrote:omg, why is the aftermarket harness is connected to factory harness but not protected??
espeically the yellow wire, that is 12v battery constant wire, if it touches metal chasis, you will short out something and worst case, catch on fire..

and looks like 2 power wires are running driver side and center..
what is the purpose of running 2 wires??
i hope you pulled out fuse from power wires before doing those wiring..
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Leo..... the 12V yellow wire is protected at the "radio fuse" or wutever its called

The 2 power wires running driver side and center..... well.... thats PART of the reason why I'm doing what I'm doing. I looked at the wiring and saw ALOT of redundant wiring! I actually had THREE power wires coming in. becuase I installed 3 different things at different times. If you ask me... its RIDICULOUS to run 3 power wires. I'm going to completely clean it up. Run ONE power wire, then splice off that to the 3 things.

And don't worry.... I'm doing ALL this with the battery unplugged. Both + and - are unplugged from the battery so I can do whatever the hell I want without worrying about a fire or sparks etc...

Also..... the yellow wire on the Head unit side has an inline fuse on the wire right at the connection point

And as focusracer said.... yea, my old DEH-7600MP MP3/CD player was wired up so that the only way to turn off the deck was taking out the faceplate, that way I never forget my faceplate (becuase I can't leave the car with music playing)

Leo, is there a way to SECURE the DVD Head Unit to the dash? I installed a cd player in my 2005 Focus and that one has the braket that attaches to the dash with screws. Totally securely attaches the HU to the car. In my car theres nowhere to attach the HU so technically someone could just smash the window and pull it out hard enough. :(

Any ideas? I see nothing to attach it to
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UPDATE:
I've finally finished cleaning the interior.... all the dirt and s*** from the corners and just the body itself. The driver side rubber mat thing under the carpet WAS soaked in brake fluid (from leaky master cylinder). That was a bitch to get all the oil out, but now its foamier and not seaped in oil. The car was pretty dry last night when I left it but today it should be completely dry.

The spare tire well has some rust here n there which is annoying. I'm going to look into fixing that, but thats an easy one, don't have to remove a huge carpet to get to it.

Today, I start on running wiring and attaching it properly. I'll probably pickup some hockey tape or somethin to the sort to tape the wires up. That means the fun stuff! Wiring in the DVD deck! Re-running the speaker wires so they're taped up, hiding the monster 0-gauge wire on driver side. I'll grab a pic after the wiring is all cleaned up :D