Boot Wires Re-directing Advice

[mrben]

Has anyone re-directed their boot wires to prevent them chopping? Just wondering whats the best way?...

[a18nkd]

i'm going to do this to my boot and was told the only way would be to find the wires on the inside of the car (somewhere you can get to the wires easily) then solder new wires from there route them the same way as they are now untill its in the boot it's self (again somwhere it's easy to get to the wires) and solder them there too sounds a bit of a faf on but i like things to be right and was told this would be the only way. don't know of any different route that would work. Edited October 29, 2012 by a18nkd

[mrben]

Well, i think its the sharp right angle into the boot thats no good for them. Been fixed a couple of times. Thinking of cutting them all, pulling them out of the boot pillar, then re-joining them, so you'll see the loom everytime you open the boot, but better than them always cutting. Running out of wire to play with, they've been joined that many times!...

[neilthephot]

I unplugged in the tailgate, pulled them all out of the rubber boot and the tailgate and then soldered new wires on from just inside the roof exit point to some new, and some reused plugs, threw the boot away as it was broken anyway and then taped the loom and reconnected, allso lubed wires before taping to stop them getting brittle. 1 year on I haven't had any further problems but did cut up another boot to cut down any water ingress into the tailgate. :23:

[viperclive]

Ok just finished yesterday doing a repair on loom mentioned. First a visit to local scrap yard with snips for cable, rip plastic away from rear rhs piller where seat belt connects, cut wire as low as possible and also at top, you now have good wire the same colors code to replace damaged, on your car remove trim on rhs top of rear door, unplug rubber umbilical from both sides, remove seat belt bolt as then piller plastic trim. Strip back loom coating to reveal cable, we now have to remove the damaged cable by cutting out and joining in new section, by either solderimg or the way I did it with good in line crimps, leave extra cable length, tape up on completion. Took me about an hour but would have cost a fortune in a garage, wire cost a quid and now my rear door locks, curtesy lights work and most important my rear wiper works again, dead chuffed!