[sluggo]

I have a 2006 Sovran 3600, it has the clarion stereo over in the map compartment on the port side of the boat.  On the helm, it has a remote control unit.  I would like to upgrade the stereo, which I find is pretty much plug and play, but I need help routing the wire over to the helm from the map compartment.  Has anyone done this??  I know if I can get it down into the engine I can get it back up.  I don't want to tape it off and pull as the wire bundles are too tight .  Has anyone done this??  I really like the remote hard wired, the wireless ones, I am sure I'll lose!!

[Outlaw]

I have a 2006 Sovran 3600, it has the clarion stereo over in the map compartment on the port side of the boat.  On the helm, it has a remote control unit.  I would like to upgrade the stereo, which I find is pretty much plug and play, but I need help routing the wire over to the helm from the map compartment.  Has anyone done this??  I know if I can get it down into the engine I can get it back up.  I don't want to tape it off and pull as the wire bundles are too tight .  Has anyone done this??  I really like the remote hard wired, the wireless ones, I am sure I'll lose!!

Sluggo,  I was going to do the same on my 36 Sovran to enable me to use bluetooth devices.  (the CD player was broken as well).  However I just installed a bluetooth adapter on the old unit and saved me a lot of grief.  

[sluggo]

I have a 2006 Sovran 3600, it has the clarion stereo over in the map compartment on the port side of the boat.  On the helm, it has a remote control unit.  I would like to upgrade the stereo, which I find is pretty much plug and play, but I need help routing the wire over to the helm from the map compartment.  Has anyone done this??  I know if I can get it down into the engine I can get it back up.  I don't want to tape it off and pull as the wire bundles are too tight .  Has anyone done this??  I really like the remote hard wired, the wireless ones, I am sure I'll lose!!

Sluggo,  I was going to do the same on my 36 Sovran to enable me to use bluetooth devices.  (the CD player was broken as well).  However I just installed a bluetooth adapter on the old unit and saved me a lot of grief.  

I thought of doing the same, but my wife had bought me these new units so I wanted to do it for her.  I am going to check it out tonight, I have one of those flexible tv camera things that you look into sewer pipes with to see what I can see.  Tiara says they run in under the headliner, which I wont mess with.  That says, Clarion makes an adaptor for the remote wire, it wont run the display, but everything else is suppose to work, so we will see!!  Thanks for the reply.

[sluggo]

FWIW I like to post what I have learned for others so when they do a search, there is a solution.  The Clarion system has a new wire for the remote, but they make an adaptor so the old wire will still be usable for most functions.  So now you can easily upgrade, and for the most part it is plug an play.  I added an adaptor to the Clarion that allows you to plug in an ipod, and you can always Bluetooth it as well.  Good luck!

[whaler guy]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

[sluggo]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

I would love to hear your answer, as I bought the new extension cable that will run everything, I just have to figure out how to get it from the map box, over to the helm without tearing anything up!! TIA.

[sluggo]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

rechecking to see if you have the answer, I would much appreciate it!!

[Donaldjames]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

I would love to hear your answer, as I bought the new extension cable that will run everything, I just have to figure out how to get it from the map box, over to the helm without tearing anything up!! TIA.

Did you figure this out ? I am in the process of doing the same thing and need to run a wire from the stereo to the helm, any help /guidance would be appreciated.

[sluggo]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

I would love to hear your answer, as I bought the new extension cable that will run everything, I just have to figure out how to get it from the map box, over to the helm without tearing anything up!! TIA.

Did you figure this out ? I am in the process of doing the same thing and need to run a wire from the stereo to the helm, any help /guidance would be appreciated.

well yes an no.  Once you get the wire into the engine compartment, it is a piece of cake getting it up to the helm, as the helm pulls forward and you can see where all the wires are run.
The problem we had was getting it from the map box to the engine room.  Now its has been a while but, the whole port side can be unscrewed (look under the black mesh that is used to reduce the glare)  Carefully take those screws out an slide that whole thing around, be careful, you don't want to break that.  Now you can see where the radio wires can be run.  The biggest problem is, we had to drill a hole in the deck over by where the map box is.  I did not want to do that, but figured, what the heck, the hole is covered and dry, so water should not be getting into anywhere, so I hope that is good.  Now replace the thing you just moved and there you go!!  I know this may not make doesn't make sense, but if you follow what I said and look around, you should see what I am talking about.

I did spend time trying to figure all the 'chases' for the wire runs.  If you look in the head, there are several access panels, that you can remove and inspect where the wires go.( one was in the cabinet , one was under the sink, in that cabinet)  I never did find out where the stereo's wires were though.  Someone told me they thought they ran underneath the head liner in the cabin.  No way I was messing with that, so the above was my solution.  I had help with moving the thing by the map compartment, it is more balky then heavy.

Good luck and let me know if this makes no sense. If not I'll try again!!

[Donaldjames]

I just saw your question it's a old post but I have the answer

I would love to hear your answer, as I bought the new extension cable that will run everything, I just have to figure out how to get it from the map box, over to the helm without tearing anything up!! TIA.

Did you figure this out ? I am in the process of doing the same thing and need to run a wire from the stereo to the helm, any help /guidance would be appreciated.

well yes an no.  Once you get the wire into the engine compartment, it is a piece of cake getting it up to the helm, as the helm pulls forward and you can see where all the wires are run.
The problem we had was getting it from the map box to the engine room.  Now its has been a while but, the whole port side can be unscrewed (look under the black mesh that is used to reduce the glare)  Carefully take those screws out an slide that whole thing around, be careful, you don't want to break that.  Now you can see where the radio wires can be run.  The biggest problem is, we had to drill a hole in the deck over by where the map box is.  I did not want to do that, but figured, what the heck, the hole is covered and dry, so water should not be getting into anywhere, so I hope that is good.  Now replace the thing you just moved and there you go!!  I know this may not make doesn't make sense, but if you follow what I said and look around, you should see what I am talking about.

I did spend time trying to figure all the 'chases' for the wire runs.  If you look in the head, there are several access panels, that you can remove and inspect where the wires go.( one was in the cabinet , one was under the sink, in that cabinet)  I never did find out where the stereo's wires were though.  Someone told me they thought they ran underneath the head liner in the cabin.  No way I was messing with that, so the above was my solution.  I had help with moving the thing by the map compartment, it is more balky then heavy.

Good luck and let me know if this makes no sense. If not I'll try again!!

Thank you for the detailed response. I’m going to take a look this weekend when we go to the boat and I will let you know what I find. Once again thank you so much!