Also, girl I'm talking to wants me to have my tongue done (I've rarely, if ever, seen a guy with a tongue piercing?) as well as... Something else. notsureifwant.jpg
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Oh wow, I had almost forgotten that existed!
Factory. I can do the wiring... I've done it plenty of times. (My old car had three... yes three... stolen out of it.)
Just not sure I want to bother. It has radio, and I have my phone for any other music. Too bad it doesn't have an aux input or the CD player wouldn't even matter.
eww radio, aux input is a must now.
But the question is do you use electrical tape or do it right?
Used to do electrical tape, but if I were doing it now, I'd get the little connector things (I deal with them all the time and now I forget their name ; ; ). Safer, easier, and they don't leave behind that gooey residue when you have to take them back off.
butt connectors, but you really should solder+heat shrink, but butt connectors are the next best thing.
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I can't stress enough.
sure it may give an electrical connection but it's not sturdy, nor secure. I would sooner use wire nuts and electrical tape, but still comes apart easily, only really good for house wiring.
I spent time when I fixed the wire harness leading to my door in my civic, with a soldering iron, heat shrink and a 25' roll of wire to patch between the door harness and floor harness since the wires broke off, and replacing the floor harness would have been ridiculously a pain and or expensive and the only junkyard that had it wanted a crapload for it. now that car is totaled and that's my biggest regret.
Yeah, if I were doing something really important I'd do all that. But odds are, I won't be doing much electrical stuff outside of replacing lights in my house, and like you said, wire nuts are generally all you need for that.
And yeah, I know electrical tape is still wrong, but hey, I at least put effort into making sure they couldn't come loose. Made sure the exposed part of the wire on each side was extra-long, would twist them together, then bend it over to one side (parallel to the still-insulated wire) so I could tape it down against the insulated part (kind of like splinting a broken finger with the good one next to it). If nothing else, it made sure it couldn't twist free inside the tape.
And also, wb Mag!