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Relocating Fusebox In Cefiro


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Hey all.

Was reading a import mag earlier with a silver cefiro owned by a fella in victoria called chris, seen he relocated his under bonnet fuse box.

And I wanna do the same, just wondering where would be the best place, I was thinking maybe glove box. Boots too far but would be the go.

And noo im not putting a cover over it. :P

Cheers

Choc

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if youre going to do it, do it properly, pull the dash out, pull the whole loom out ect

i did it with dash in and didnt remove the loom, was nothing but drama's, shit not working, stuff shorting out, blowing fuses, massive mess under the dash

i ended up starting again with a new loom and left it in the stock spot and just stripped it to bare minimum

this is what i ripped out

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started again with a fresh loom

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stripped off everything i didnt need and put it all back in

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I've just done mine chocky. basically pull the full loom from out of the front of the car. Strip the tape off the loom and work out where its going to sit under the dash, mine is right next to the other fuse panel cable tied up out of the way. Then cut and shorten and solder/heatshrink each cable one by one. while the loom was stripped I also removed the Abs wiring to cut out some cables, then I also drilled a hole just above the chassis rail near the alternator to bring that wiring out under the guard then back over the wheel arch and moved the battery to the boot but run the power wire in behind the strut down under the break booster to the starter motor. Having it ran here also allowed me to put a decent fuse in and also a place to put the jumper leads if i need to jump start the car again.

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