3rd Gen Rear Speaker Wiring

[fatherohenry]

I took a break from writing code and decided to replace my amp and rear speakers. Point being, I'm no expert here.

I've seen other posts where the best answer I found was "a little soapy water" but it looks like I need to cut into the tape around the existing wires to even get in to the hole in the grommet so I could slide the speaker wire through.

Is removing that tape the best way to approach this and if so, what's the best material to replace it with when I'm done?

 

[fatherohenry]

My grandfather came to me in a vision - he was a Ford mechanic for decades.

For anyone else facing this - I removed the tape, got in there just enough with a wire coat hanger to give me a little room, put some vaseline on the end of the speaker wire and it slid right through.

Hopefully getting it into the door will be just as simple. And I imagine any sort of weatherproof tape would work.

 

[Skulking]

I'd just use any decent self fusing silicone tape to re-wrap the wiring.

 

[gamefreakgc]

Any particular reason why you decided to replace the wiring? I have a small amp that pushes about 45W RMS to each speaker and kept the stock wiring with no issues. Toyota does use pure copper stranded wire.