Thread: FAQ: Proper Wire Termination and Connection Methods

A good page regarding crimping, terminating and soldering:

http://www.andersonpower.com/products/tooling/use.html

read it, learn it, live it.

another: http://www.svconline.com/mag/avinsta...not/index.html

more: http://www.tpub.com/neets/book4/12f.htm

http://www.enjoythedrive.com/content/?id=24745

Originally Posted by Red GTi VR6

Alarm brain and all the wiring - what a mess:

Mine was done at so called "authorized" dealer and looks like this picture.

Test your soldering knowledge: http://www.autoshop101.com/tests/intest7.html

http://www.popularmechanics.com/auto...tml?page=3&c=y

http://www.mmxpress.com/technical/connections.htm

Originally Posted by kickercivic1

Mine was done at so called "authorized" dealer and looks like this picture.

My husband spent a good part of his management with Circuit City as the manager that fixed other stores problems. He was so good at it that CC would specifically send him to other stores to essentially fire everyone and start new with competent installers and would fix the stores problems.

This was one of the instances.

There will always be bad installers. You just need to know what to look for and how to pick out good installers.

I am getting the the 791xv installed, soon, but i want to completely uninstall my 561xv or whatever. I have no clue where to start from tho.

To help Red with her quest, here are some pics from my latest wiring job in the car.

Breif history: the wires running from the car to the trunk's lid were poorly designed by the Audi engineers in my car's model.
Whenever the trunk would open/close, it'd stress the wires out by over-stretching them.
They got to a point of snapping. By the time I noticed it, 6 out of 8 wires were torn apart.

Pics:
Before


During


After


Summary:
Every wire was extended by a few more mm's.
The same gauge size was used.
There are two soldering points to each wire (1 at either end) and a tubes of heat-shrink applied to each soldering point.
As seen in the last pic, the whole wire bundle is covered with two large heat-shrink tubes and routed around the joint with zip-ties.

very nice!

There will always be a grey area when it comes to connections but i will say this the more work it takes to make the connection the better it usually seems to be. Personally i would never use a solder-less crimp in anything i have seen so many of these cause noise / and pull out with minimal force. So imo solder with some heat shrink is the only way, and since i was fortunate enough to attend a high reliability soldering class the AF offered i am somewhat ok at it

I have given up on solderless connections to. I have used all sorts, and though most work for standard setups/simple devices I don't like doing it. Everything outside the cab is soldered for sure. Mainly because of conditions and stress/vibrations. Inside the cab I started doing it because of shorts and so on. It is all worth the time.

Brent