Running power cable from battery to trunk 2014 Jetta

[cwalthall]

HI Everyone

I need to run power from the battery to the truck of my 2014 Jetta SE, can anyone tell me the best way to run it?

73's
Carl
N8CDW

 

[scottyhetzel]

Yes under the body in a sleeve,, come up in the trunk with a gromet and silicone it. Use a resettable breaker at the battery.

 

[cmdrwill]

snip) Use a resettable breaker at the battery.

Manual reset, not auto-reset. I still prefer blade fuse in a enclosed holder near the battery. And that is 'manual reset' too.

 

[rescue161]

We remove every auto-reset breaker that comes through our shop. They usually have melted wiring attached to them, hence why we remove them and never use them ourselves.

 

[scottyhetzel]

We remove every auto-reset breaker that comes through our shop. They usually have melted wiring attached to them, hence why we remove them and never use them ourselves.

What do you use? I just replaced a burnt max fuse holder with a 40 amp maxi fuse melted. I was not happy.... I installed a cooper bushman manual reset. Problem is its under the hood and not waterproof.

 

[rescue161]

We use a combination of fuses/holders depending on the install. Usually it's a maxi fuse/holder for high-current and ATC for everything else. 9 times out of 10, we'll run a maxi from the battery to a solenoid, which is controlled with switched power from the fuse panel under the hood. Then the power from the solenoid is fed to our fuse panel that we install which feeds all of our switched power applications.

Fuse holders are not perfect, especially if the contacts are loose. I've seen melted maxi holders in the past too. The problem with the auto-reset breakers is that they keep resetting even when there is a major problem. We have a very large fleet of vehicles with users from all walks of life and the only sure fire way to make them bring the vehicle in is when the equipment doesn't work. Auto-reset breakers usually will allow the equipment to keep functioning, which causes more problem if the user doesn't bring the vehicle back at the first sign of a problem. If a fuse opens, they will come to the shop immediately for us to investigate why the fuse opened.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Previous owner of my pickup had a sub system behind the back seat. He of course pulled the box and amp when he traded the truck but not the cabling. After checking how he ran power from the battery, I decided that I'd use his power lead to power my radio equipment (nice 4 ga). I ended up finding these little guys at the local electronics store. I need to install a master fuse at the battery for it but haven't gotten around to it yet.

You might check out some european upfitter forums to see how they do their "cruisers" as I seem to remember VW being one of the common choices over there. I know one of the larger two-way companies only makes remote mount radios but I don't know if they put the RF decks in the trunk like we do here in the US.