Well after an agonizing week of work interrupted plans to install my MKII it is finally installed in my Jetta.

First impressions WOW this was worth the expense and wait.

As stated earlier I did a minimal installation, just the MKII and a power amp. The factory speakers were in good shape. Amp went under the rear seat (yes yes yes there's not a lot of ventilation, but this is a very low power amp, and after two hours of heavy bass at high levels with the seat down the amp was cold to the touch) Of course I don't officially endorse this installation if you do it and it melts your rear seat

Here are my install details:

Materials

MKII (of course)
Kenwood KAC-648S Power amp 35 Watts x 4
Monster Cable BA-P100 Basic 100 Watt Power kit
Monster Cable 5 Meter Interlink MicroXLN 4ch line feed
Radio Shack Tap-In Squeeze Connectors 64-3053
Radio Shack 18 gauge Squeeze barrel connectors
Radio Shack 18 gauge spade connectors
8 ft high quality speaker cable (yup only 8 feet total!)

The Hack (ahh.. installation I mean)

We routed the red power cable through the hood release cable grommet. This was accessed by removing the fuse panel cover, and following the stiff release cable up to the firewall.
Once the grommet is pulled off from the hood side you can feed the short end through to the battery. This was not easy as the grommet had some sealant in it. Once fit back into place the rest of the power cable was routed through to the rear seat via the passenger side door kicks/cable troughs. You can pry them up with a minimal amount of effort and some sweat. Once opened up there is a TON of room to route the cable. It was pulled to the middle of the flipped up rear seat.

Pull the head unit and route the interconnect and remote power on cable up to the head unit DIN space from under the dash. You can fit your hand into the space up to the back of the head unit (very tight squeeze) I also ran an RCA to headphone cable to run an aux. CD player or whatever, easier to do it now then later.

Then run the interconnect cable and the remote power on cable through the drivers side cable trough to the rear seat.

Then with the factory head unit pulled I used the squeeze connectors to jump the front speaker runs through to the rear speaker runs at the factory connector. No need to remove the factory plug!

At the rear seat find the cable run going to the trunk and locate the rear speaker runs. It's a black thick shiny cable. If your not sure you can see what the cable looks like at the rear speakers.

Snip the cable in half under the rear seat and strip back enough casing to allow you to splice in the speaker cable to reach the amp. This allows you to use the rear speaker runs to power the front speakers.

Drill a hole to mount the grounding strap and attach spade connectors to the power,remotes,ground and speaker wires.

The amp is then mounted with sheet metal screws in the center of the pan with the gain controls facing the passenger side.

Back to the head unit. Using a sowing needle release the constant power spade (memory wire) from the factory plug (insert the needle down the left side front of the spade and it will pull right out) do the same for the ignition sense and swap them as discussed HERE

Pull a connector pin out of the EMPEG provided connector and butt splice the remote power on cable to the lead of this pin. Then insert the pin in to the VW connector in the correct spot.

Now you just need to CAREFULLY hook up the back of the sled and carefully feed all of this back into the TIGHT din space. Making sure to pull the connectors under the built in VW sled. Especially if you want to install the tuner module without pulling the whole thing out again.

Then hook up your battery cable and hope you got it all right!

I'll post pics when I get a chance. If any one wants.

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