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help with 2014 impala

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bluestallion

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Im wanting to mount my 7800 in the car. Battery is under hood, but cant find a place to run power wire through. Friend said to use cig plug but id rather not because would have to run lower power. Any one know what i can do? Thanks
 

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No firewall access on new GM cars.

I have had problems finding firewall access in newer cars in general, but specifically GM vehicles. Unless they are police or fleet vehicles, they come very well sealed up.

What I have been doing is to wire the power cords to the battery, delay timer, etc. And then route them to the lower corner of the windshield. There is usually a gap where the firewall, fender and windshield meet.

I then pull the door gasket off a few inches and drill a hole or cut a notch near the door frame edge. Wires get routed through there and then go through the dash and on to the radios.

The rubber weatherstrip gasket hides this edge of metal, (I usually drill a hole instead of a notch and grommet this hole so the wires do not scrape bare metal) and secure the cable under the hood,fender and behind the dash with cable ties.
 

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I looked into that, but connectors are at door so no wires go on through. Think i will run a wire loom down along the frame and make a small hole in the trunk drain and run wires into trunk so that can have shorter coax run. Will take pictures once everything is done. Then have to figure out were to put the radio head
 

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Another possibility may be to use the opening the hood release cable passes through.
 

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On the police cars that we install, there is a firewall entry point right behind the engine, on the passenger's side. You have to pull back the rubber mat to see it. If you have carpet, you'd have to pull it back. If the civilian models do not have this entry point, you can drill a hole. We have to do this on some vehicles that are not police package vehicles. After we drill the hole, we use a rubber grommet and then seal the hole with silicon after the wires are pushed through.
 

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I'm not sure about the 2014 model, but in my 2012 model there's a rubber grommet behind the center of the dash (where the stereo is) and just to the right. It's just to the right of the "hump" in the floorboard. That hole goes into the engine compartment, but was a little tricky fishing the wire up towards the battery, because the back of the engine is so close to the body. BE AWARE, make sure the car's engine is cool when you do this! I burned the crap out of my arm when I ran my power cable.

Mine was easy to get to, but my car has the 60/40 bench seats with a column shifter. I think they removed that option in 2013, so I bet there's a center console between the seats in yours that might make it difficult to get to.
 
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