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How to install a sub?



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Is there a guide/tutorial on how to install a sub?
  • How do you wire it up to headunit?
  • What wires do you need?
  • Wheres the best location to place it?
  • Where do you run the wires in a clio to hide it?
  • How do you stop it rolling about in the boot?!
Cheeeeeers
 
  LY 182 FF CUPPED
. you can't
. speaker wire ( thicker the better)
. boot
. you don't need to ( just behind the box itself )
. a stop the sub rolling around the boot strap
 
  LY 182 FF CUPPED
do you have an amp??
what sub etc etc etc ....Haz has offered to help you.
if you don't have an amp fitted ....and have never fitted one seek assistance.
Basically you can't hook an amp straight to a HU.
As for a strap you can get them from most ICE dealers.
oh and looking at your avatar.....I reckon its a 8v.......only that you won't be able to hear your HU in a V8
 

Rob

ClioSport Moderator
Hope this kinda helps...

Well to start with you really need an amp.

The amp runs to to head unit and connects via the remote chord (look in your radio manual to find out which one this is (normally blue irrc)) and it also connect directly to your batter to power it. (you can buy a wiring kit from halfrauds)

The sub then connects to one of the outs on the amp, i.e one + and one - with some DECENT thick speaker wire

I screwed a small wooden plate to the side wall of the the boot and then screwed the amp to that. (All the wires connecting amp to radio and sub to amp in the boot are hidden behind that bit of wood) nd the sub just goes in the back left corner of my boot

The wires that have to run inside the car are easily hidden as they can go down the corner of the back seats and then under all the interior plastics i.e the rear door cards and then under that strip of plastic that runs along the bottom of the car, these all come up easily enough.

I holy my sub in place with some of the super strong velcro you can also get from halfrauds, a lot of people dont recoment this but i find if you screw it to the base of the sub with some very small flat screws it works extremley well and sticks straight to your bootfloor.

Hope that helps.
 
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Active sub - built in amp. Hope that helps.
 
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But on a serious note, get back on topic please. I dont care about your opinion on if I should/should not be capable of doing this job. I just want some advise.
 
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mk2ph1... think i got a pretty good idea of what i need to do now just a case of finding out best places to run wires etc
 
  Mk1 Maxim Sport
either under the carpet which is a bit of a pain in the arse or tuck em under the trim that runs along the passenger side footwell all the way to the back seats then under the back seats an into boot. jobs a gudden
 
  Mk1 Maxim Sport
easiest way, theres no point faffin around any other way it took me literally bout 5 mins to tuck all 3 of me wires under the trim an its done! cant see em at all.
 


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