Yay, attacking the car with a drill! Got my ham radio certification and a 2m band radio for the car. Decided to put the antenna in the rear passenger corner, further away from my head when transmitting. Safety first!
Figured I could sneak the coax in through here by just filing a small notch in the edge of the plastic around the light here. Turns out I need to file a couple of notches through a couple of bits of plastic, before reaching the hole in the body panel. And of course I discovered this *after* gooping the area up with gasket maker... I'll let it set and cut it off tomorrow and file some more.
While I'm at it all taking the dashboard apart to figure out where to mount the radio and how to run wire to it, I took out the instrument cluster finally, in hopes I'll be able to find and fix the reed switch that's not clicking so the ECU's whining about not getting a valid signal from the Vehicle Speed Sensor...
Wow. That's quite the rat's nest of a CD player install the DPO's done back here!
All installed (but not hooked up yet. Apparently, I should check my power regulator to make sure the alternator doesn't put out more than 15V when revving, before hooking up the radio.)
My contribution to DPO-ing the car up :) The red-black-with-blue-specks wire used to go off to the left, to some main harness, shorts out somewhere, and then to the switch that grounds when the e-brake is on, thereby turning the light on. I couldn't be arsed to actually disassemble the wire harness and fix the short or replace the wire the way it runs. The green wire goes to the right, tucks under the center console, and now connects, hopefully without shorts, to the e-brake switch. So hopefully the light will actually go out now when you release the brake.