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I am in the midst of installing a pair of Hella FF1000 driving lights in our 1994 9000CSE. Part of the installation process is to run two wires from the wiring harness in the engine compartment into the passenger compartment, to be hooked up to a control switch that can turn the lights on or off when the high beam headlights are on.
The easy way that I found to run wires from the engine compartment into the passenger compartment is as follows:
1. Remove the lower panel (covered in a dark fabric material)below the steering wheel area (five plastic retainers need to be pushed in the middle portion and then popped loose with a regular screwdriver).
2. Get under the dash near the steering wheel with a flashlight and look to the left of the brake pedal. You will see a large (3 inches or so in diameter) grey rubber disc (with a wire going through it) mounted to the firewall. Pull back on this rubber disc and it will easily come loose.
3. Look through the hole in the firewall, and you should be able to see some daylight through the hole. Take a long flexible object (I used one of those 2 foot long flexible parts retrievers with the spring loaded grasping piece on the end) and insert it through the hole, attempting to get it aimed toward the daylight.
4. Look under the hood and with any luck you should see the other end of your flexible object just to the passenger side of the battery and coming up from underneath the false firewall (you do not have to remove the acquarium cover to do this job).
5. Tie the wires you wish to run into the passenger compartment to the flexible object and then pull the flex object back into the passenger compartment. Draw enough wire into the passenger compartment, then re-install the rubber disc back into its hole in the firewall.
This job took me all of about 20 minutes and it was very easy to do - biggest challenge is to find the right type of flexible tool (2 feet long or so) to use. Overall, a really easy way to run wiring or vacuum hoses between the passenger compartment and the engine compartment.
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