Wiring under guard holding kick panel

[parkerst]

I had to get the plastic thing off under my steering wheel and i noticed something when i took the guard off on the door.

I have no idea if its stock standard (jesus i hope not) but i noticed that one of the screws that holds the guard down on the door (At the feet), which is attached to the kick panel, to get at the last screw..has a screw that goes straight through a bunch of wires!!1

Is that normal and won't that f*** my cabling up eventually?

Edited October 29, 2007 by parkerst

[Rolla Boy]

Does it look like it's supposed to go through the wiring??? Some looms will have a hole in the centre for screws to go through to hold the loom in place...

If it's not supposed to be there and it's cut into the wiring case, then I would remove the screw, cover the wires individually with electrical tape, then tape them all together with tape and fit a smaller screw that won't affect the wiring or try and move the wires to the side...

[parkerst]

Nah, there is no little hole or plug that the screw goes in, it goes straight down into where the wires were, so i drilled tiny holes in and put little clips to hold the wires on either side of where the screw goes.

But do i need to go pulling **** apart to look for crap like this? It turns out that one of the wires was damaged already, so i had to cut it, and solder a new section in.