Grounding Kit

[sierra055]

Yeah, I did read some of the posts on Vortex, but I was kind of hoping there was a kit available that had a central distribution point, rather than just wires linking ground points.

Think I might make some up as I haven't been able to find anything other than bright green and purple coloured universal ones .

[MRJZ]

Though I have an 8 point grounding kit in my car that I made, I would recommend checking the 2/3 grounds under your battery in general.

It is 1 of the most common issues with MK4's

[sierra055]

Yeah, that was the problem I had the other night, the chassis ground under the battery tray.

I figure that this will at least stop it from happening again, but in my last car there was definitely an improvement in both fuel efficiency and the electric system too.

[Manaz]

I had a custom-built grounding kit put into my MY02 Liberty by FHRX Studios, and am seriously considering having them do the same for my 2003 Bora V6 4Motion (along with a good battery, probably another Optima Yellow Top).

Everything was red on the Liberty, I'll be going for a more stealth (and colour-correct) black install this time.

http://www.fhrxstudios.com/

[Mr ©harisma]

Yeah Marty put one on my car. Basically it's a 0ga cable to a plate. Their is then 5x 4ga cables running around important parts of the engine bay. One of those is to the starter motor.

That and an Optima D34m ( has a second set of terminals over the Yellow top D34 so if you need to jump start you don't attack your gold terminals!! ) stopped any dimming lights and has power on tap all the time. Put on some picces for you.

[Manaz]

Does the stock battery cover not fit over an Optima D34/D34m, or have you removed it for photographic purposes?

[Mr ©harisma]

Does the stock battery cover not fit over an Optima D34/D34m, or have you removed it for photographic purposes?

Cover will fit, you just can not mount the factory distributor back on top as the terminals are to close together. Without the factory dis it looks kinda stupid anyways so I leave it off. Then people are usually like