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Hey guys i have a pioneer 6400 cd player and i recently bought some new rca adaptars for my amp. I am gonna to install these myself can somebody give me some pointers on how to put these in? any help will be gladly accepted. thanks again
Injen

 
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posting in the wrong forum.. n you think you should be the next mod? hehe i'm just messin...
its easy, just follow the wire from the amp to the headunit... my guess would be its ran through the drivers side... pop off the door sills, the peice infront of it which holds the hood latch release, all the way to the back of your headunit

 
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pop the center console off and run the wires straight down the middle...i think its easier..u gotta take of the seat bottoms..but thats easy

 
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ok thanks thats what i was going to do just makin sure. and i thought this would be a good place to get quick responses instead of electrical. hehe. thanks for the help though.

 
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please, don be this lazy, i know some people say its ok to do it this way, but pull up the door sills and run them through there, its in my opinion, just as fast that way, and its not just run through the middle of your car.

 
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ya i would have to agree, gives the more proffesional install, its not that hard anyways. just takes a lil more time

 
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All the guys around here at all the pro shops are runnin the wires down the middle, its a better, more direct install, trust me, run them down the middle

 
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how is it better and more direct? the shops there must be doing a half a$$ed job... i dont think its very pleasing to lift up the carpet and find wires everywhere...

 
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my shop ALWAYS runs power and RCA's on opposite sides. plus, how can you guys say its harder? wires tuck right away, you dont have to pull up any carpet or anything, unless when you run it down the middle, you are talking about laying it on top of the carpet. very ghetto.

far easier to run them under the door sils, which pop out by clips if you insist on removing them entirely, unlike the center console which comes out by many many screws.

 
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thatz what i'm saying.

 
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I've done work for 3 shops (Mobile Electronics, Columbus Car Audio, and Audio Doc) and they always told us that if possible run them ddown the middle, now as you know, most car's carpet is glued down, so there is no way to get down the middle, on our cars, you alrady have the center out to get to the headunit, and the carpet lifts right up, and its a straight shot!

 
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#1 console has to come out. thats a pain.

#2 youve established your experience, but have left us to trust you completely without an answer why. its still easier to get teh RCA's under side panels vs the center, especially for our cars. you can wedge teh cable in there with no panel removal.

the EASIEST way to get the RCA to go down teh center of our cars you still have to pull at least 2 screws and the plastic clips from teh front of the center console. far far easier to run them down teh side.

but you have experience at three shops. why did the installers reccommend runnign them down the center?

edit: ill admit ive only installed in a dozen cars or so, but ive never found a single one of them to have the carpet glued down, am i missing something else here too? honda civic, chevy express, toyota camry, volvo 240, they all came right out, so why is there discrepancy?

 
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I am sure as heck no car audio master but have been doing some reading. Everything I have read states that the rca cables should be at least 3 feet away from the power cable. Also, from what I have read, a good layout is the power down one side, the rca down the other, and the speaker cable through the center. Anyhow, this just what I have read.

 
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i guess there really is no right/wrong way just as long as it works. as long as you cant see the wires then its all good.

 
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Those three shops, when you pay to get it installed you pay for the cable by the foot after they are installed, it was to save cable, I already stated, it is the most direct shot. If the power is on the passenger side, you run the RCA's down the side of the console closest to the driver's seat, and vice versa. And yes, a lot of cars have some type of glue or putty holding down the carpet down the center.

About being easier running them down the side, it is actually more work, becuase the console is already out to get to the back of the cd player, if you do that the right way.

Another reason we were told to run them down the middle if possible, is because a lot of these cars are show cars, with lots of electronics, and god only knows what they have or plan on having run down the side

 
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im sorry i wasnt clear when i said this, the center console does not come out at all for a radio install. for the purposes of my explanation I will define a center console as the area where your shifter and E-brake is. thats bolted down, and regardless of whether you have to have the radio removed or not, that piece does nto normally come out or even have to come out, unless that is, you are trying to run cable. sorry if i was unclear.

cant say anything about the rest, tho. my shop uses premade cables, so we dont have the problem of charging by teh foot and trying to save teh customer money that way. that however, could solve some comlpexity probelms, for sure, if they make them like that. with no heads, all you would have to do, theoretically, is fish teh cable under the console, the cable itself would fit, i imagine.....

however, most hobby installers dont make their own RCA cables, so at this point i think our argument is moot. an interesting idea, tho.....

 
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rca cables do come in different lengths, maybe hes talking about that