Where can I get a few (4) aftermarket door looms?

[heyzeus2003]

Winter is coming up, and I'm trying to make my Mama's 91 Corolla a bit more comfortable to live with. I've already added remote start to it, so that she wont have to get into a cold car in the winter, but I figured I might as well add some aftermarket door lock actuators, since the alarm already has the feature to lock & unlock the doors…. easy enough to do... except that her car has absolutely no wires running into the doors, which mean no OEM door rubber looms to pass the wires through. I don’t mind drilling a small hole for the wire to fit through, but I'd like to keep the wires protected from shorting out. Anyhow, I did a few quick searches on ebay and on google, and I found a that bunch of places sell some SS braided door looms (lol… what next?!), then there was only one company that sold rubber door looms, but for a good chunk of change (more than I’m willing to spend).

I’m probably being unrealistic(?) but I’m not looking to spend more than $10-15 for door loom (for 4 doors). If there is nothing affordable, I'd rather rig up some grommets in the fresh holes, and run some of that plastic loom (between the door & the chassis) to "protect"/hide the wires. Do you guys think that would be a bad thing? I also thought about going to the junkyard and getting some door looms from there… but they usually seem oddly shaped (not perfectly round) and thin (I just need to run 2 wires into each door). Not to mention that its getting cold outside... so I am sort of trying to avoid the JY.

$30 for a pair of SS braided looms (12" each)



Rubber $15 (for a ~7" piece)


Any input or ideas would be great!
TIA

[Corollacrazy42]

rubber looms are not worth it for 15 bucks.. so if your going to change the ones you already have I would just get the steel braided ones

Even if they do cost more. Or you could possibly make some outta some other type of tubing?

[heyzeus2003]

Originally Posted by Corollacrazy42

rubber looms are not worth it for 15 bucks.. so if your going to change the ones you already have I would just get the steel braided ones

Even if they do cost more. Or you could possibly make some outta some other type of tubing?

Thanks for the reply but unfortunately my Mom's Corolla doesn’t even have the OEM loom because it's the lowest model, DX… It has power-nothing in the doors. So I have to make my own holes in the doors and the chassis and run the wires for the actuators that way. I just want something to protect the wires & the fresh holes.

I did a few more searches last night after not having any success. I might be able to pull of these door looms that I found on ebay:



They are $3 a pieces (so $12, plus $6 for shipping). Might be worth a shot, I e-mailed the guy whos selling them to see how big of an opening these need, and if they are perfectly round and not an odd shaped oval or something.

[thoughthard]

Could you use grommets, rubber tubing, and some zip ties to make sure the tubing does not pull out of the grommets?

[heyzeus2003]

Originally Posted by thoughthard

Could you use grommets, rubber tubing, and some zip ties to make sure the tubing does not pull out of the grommets?

That was/is my fallback plan… but I’m thinking some accordion style loom would be best, as it will have some give to it. If I do that though… I might just cover the wire from end to end in plastic loom and then cover up the exposed are with some rubber (thanks for the idea!).