How to access the rubber thingie that protects the wires between door and car?

[TKoos]

I am currently changing the speakers and amplifier in our 4200 CC.
The new speakers will be an active system, each speaker is driven directly with its own wires from the amplifier. Therefor I need to get new wires in to the door and I wonder how to access the gasket/rubber thingie from the car?
As I don't know the name uncle Google will not provide me with any help. :-(
Do I really need to remove the whole dashboard? I hope not...

 

[CatmanV2]

Do you mean you have line level outputs for the woofers and tweeters from the amp that are already frequency filtered?

C

 

[TKoos]

Do you mean you have line level outputs for the woofers and tweeters from the amp that are already frequency filtered?

C

Correctamundo, my friend. DSP is the new black.
Do you know what the rubber tube/thing is called in English? I have found nothing so far, can't even locate it on scuderiacarparts. :-(

 

[CatmanV2]

Correctamundo, my friend. DSP is the new black.
Do you know what the rubber tube/thing is called in English? I have found nothing so far, can't even locate it on scuderiacarparts. :-(

Conduit might be the right word. I assume you're meaning the tube that carries all the cables from the door into the body of the car?

C

 

[TKoos]

Conduit might be the right word. I assume you're meaning the tube that carries all the cables from the door into the body of the car?

C

That's exactly the part I'm looking for! Thanks a lot!
Generic conduit picture below:


Now I only need to find out how to access the door conduit on my 4200.

 

[spkennyuk]

That's exactly the part I'm looking for! Thanks a lot!
Generic conduit picture below:
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Now I only need to find out how to access the door conduit on my 4200.

Take the speaker out and you can put your hand in to access it from memory on on the door side. If your running cable it may be easier to remove the door card as well so you have better access.

On the wing side inside the car i think you have to peel the carpet and door seal back to access the back of the conduit. Squeeze and push if you need to release them from the metal work.

Can be a pain to push back into place so have a plastic flat bladed tool handy.

 

[TKoos]

Take the speaker out and you can put your hand in to access it from memory on on the door side. If your running cable it may be easier to remove the door card as well so you have better access.

On the wing side inside the car i think you have to peel the carpet and door seal back to access the back of the conduit. Squeeze and push if you need to release them from the metal work.

Can be a pain to push back into place so have a plastic flat bladed tool handy.

Gah! That sucked huge.
The conduit was no problem to remove. The problem was that it doesn't contain and protect the wires, it actually protects a weird looking multi pole connector.
So, no way to get two extra pair of wires in through there. :-(
And as the original wiring for the speakers was only one pair of wires parallel connected to the tweeter and the woofer I had to either ditch the whole active filtering or think up something new.
As I can easily live without the courtesy light I cut the two cables to that one and attached the amplifier there, routing the cables from the lamp directly to the tweeter instead. Rather thin wires but I think the tweeter will manage as it's only 50 cm or so.

 

[CatmanV2]

Interesting approach!

C