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Hardtop Wiring Harness Tie Down/Seatbelt Flap

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Old 06-01-2008, 12:51 PM
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Default Hardtop Wiring Harness Tie Down/Seatbelt Flap

I don't know about anyone else, but I was annoyed at the Freedom top's wiring harness hanging freely whenever I had the top off. I tried a couple of different things to secure it, but none were working out the way that I wanted.

I finally took a utility knife, and made two small cuts in the carpet over the wheel well, about 1" each, parallel with one another. I then took a piece of velcro about 3 1/2" long and fed it through the slots. I did this a second time, a little further forward, and now have two velcro "anchor points" that I use to secure the wiring harness.

It was a pain getting the velcro fed through the slots-in hindsight, I should've put it inside a small piece of folder cardboard, and slipped that through, since the velcro really wanted to stick to the underside of the carpet.

One other thing that I did today, I took a long strip of 2 1/2" self-adhesive velcro, and ran it paralell along the passenger side seat belt-I used the soft side, not the rough side. It totally elimated the annoying "clicking" that the seatbelt makes when the top/doors are off, and no one's in the passenger seat. My interior is the dark gray/slate, so the velco is barely noticeable.

Take it easy-

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Old 06-04-2008, 07:20 PM
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I just pushed the wire under the carpet. When I put the hardtop back on I'll just pull it out. Took about 10 seconds to do.
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Originally Posted by davidwm71
I just pushed the wire under the carpet. When I put the hardtop back on I'll just pull it out. Took about 10 seconds to do.

I did the same - for the seat belt flap I bought those seat shoulder pads and used 2-way tape and stuck it to the B-pillar
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I've been slipping my wiring harness under the plastic "sleeve" thing at the bottom of the roll bar, but I like the velcro idea.
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Originally Posted by davidwm71
I just pushed the wire under the carpet. When I put the hardtop back on I'll just pull it out. Took about 10 seconds to do.
X2 and works great.
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Originally Posted by Jose Dosil
X2 and works great.
X3 on that! 10 seconds or less!
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Originally Posted by davidwm71
I just pushed the wire under the carpet. When I put the hardtop back on I'll just pull it out. Took about 10 seconds to do.
x4...is this considered a mod or just common sense
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As of today I stopped putting it under the plastic sleeve and now I put it under the carpet like everyone else.



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