Rennie,
On my 86 GL Full Camper the rear speaker wires run on the passenger side
through the opening above the door into the air vent above the sliding door
to the A/C, speaker area. Hope this helps!

Enjoy,
Greg
86 GL Westy
Granada Hills, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rennie Wible" <volksdragon@earthlink.net>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: common speaker wire to rear Vanagon speakers]

> I was just doing a radio install last week, perfect timing list!!
>
> Where do the rear speaker wires run?  Is it along the drip rail?  I want
> to
> upgrade to 4 wires going to the rear on my 84.
>
> TIA
>
> Rennie
> VolksDragon@earthlink.net
> Los Angeles
>
> 61 crew cab (911 conversion)
> 65 convertible
> 84 vanagon
> 93 fox
>
> Kent Tunks wrote:
>
>
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> >
> > Subject: common speaker wire to rear Vanagon speakers
> > Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:25:58 -0700
> > From: Kent Tunks <ktunks@earthlink.net>
> > To: jlsnyder1@juno.com
> >
> > Quite a few car radios(most in fact) will not tolerate a "common" wire
> > for both speakers.
> > Usually,the final power amp transisters will burn out in the radio.
> >
> > The solution is to run an another wire to the rear speakers,so each
> > speaker has two
> > wires.Also,I would make sure that none of the speaker wires are
> > connected to the
> > Vanagon's chassis.In other words,make sure that none of the speaker
> > wires is grounded.
> >
> > I have been through this myself.Why VW choose to wire Vanagons this way
> > is anybody'
> > guess.
> >
> > good luck,
> >
> > Kent Tunks
>