Civic EG

After gutting your interior in your hatch, you probably noticed it looked like a mess. Wires & cables in the rear are ugly so here's how to hide them. No cutting or soldering needed!

First, what you have to begin with:

(The 2 unplugged harnesses in the pic are from the rear wiper motor that I removed)







Now lets tuck!


Unplug the big connector in the lower right of the pic.




Follow that harness around the driver side and back of the interior. It is held onto the chassis with plastic clips that usually break when you pull them out. Unplug any plugs (tail lights) and disconnect any chassis grounds along the way.


Remove the rear wing and unplug the 3rd brake light. Then push the plug & gromet through the hole in the glass.

once you pull the 3rd brakelight wiring down with the rest of the harness, you have successfully removed it all.


Now to reinstall the harness, hidden. you have 2 ends, one with the huge connector and one with the small 3rd brake light connector. Get the end with the small 3rd brake light connector, sit indian style in your spare tire well, and start fishing it through the panel below the tail gate. You will be fishing the harness from the right (driver) side to the left (passenger) side.

You will be routing the harness exactly as it was before, but it will be on the inside of the inner panel instead of clipped to the outside.

Once you get the harness fished through all the way up to the driver tail light... take the big connector end and pass it through behind the driver rear panel to come out where the bottom of the rear seat used to be. Then plug it back in to the other big connector.


You wanna hide the tail gate & gas door cables while you're at it. Go up to the drivers door and unbolt the bracket that has the release handles. Flip it over and pop out the plastic yellow gromets that hold the cables in place. then remove the cable ends from the handle levers, like you would remove a throttle cable from a throttle body.


Now you can pass the cables through the inside driver side panel with the harness. Then hook the cables back up to the bracket & bolt it back down.


Here's where the bottom of the rear seat used to be where the cables & wire harness go in to the inside of the body.



Don't forget to hook the ground back up here. And if you are good with your fingers, you can connect those 2 plugs together inside of the body panel.

The results:

Forgot a pic of the wiring for the 3rd brake light, just run it up the inside of the panel to the same gromet hole it went to before.


(I did not run the 2 cables back up to the front yet since I had other work to do up there still)


And don't forget to tuck the tail gate! No explanation needed, it's a 5 min job after you're experienced from doing the rear of the car.

Be sure all your lights are plugged back in & grounds connected. Put your rear spoiler back on and you're done!

ive been waiting for some one to do a how to on this... been meaning to have ago at mine for some time now but have been abit worried about ripping it out.

i look forward to the next installment.

nice

Tucking is always a good idea. Good write up.

How do you tuck the wire going to the fuel tank cover That's the only one bothering me.

Nice write up Bri

U the man

Nice

SlipCivic wrote:How do you tuck the wire going to the fuel tank cover That's the only one bothering me.

Nice write up Bri

The only way to do it would be to run the wire on the underside of the car and I didn't think that was a good idea, and too much work.

Can you see the orange plugs, where do they lead too? I wanna do a wiretuck but this is the only two I have concerns about...

oh I thought you meant the ones to the fuel pump. My car did not have those 2 orange ones... I have never seen those before. maybe it is only on the UK spec cars - some type of sensor for the fuel tank?

Don't know if it's anything to do with the fuel light?

possibly, US ones didn't have a low fuel light. But since it has 2 harnesses going into opposite sides of the trunk, I'm wondering if it is an impact sensor. maybe safety related in case of a bad rear end collision

Thanks ! im gunna go do that now

CivicTypeR wrote:Can you see the orange plugs, where do they lead too? I wanna do a wiretuck but this is the only two I have concerns about...

look like abs cables?!