1994 Nissan Sentra dog ate the electrical system!

ECOLOGY12

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1994 NISSAN SENTRA
4 CYL
FWD
AUTOMATIC
13,500 MILES

My dog recently escape his carrier and attempted to escape the car. By this I mean he tore apart both front doors, as well as the stripping along the floor board that covers many of the electrical wires. Many of the wires are now broken. As a result the radio, windows, and most importantly my tail lights, break lights, and rear turn signals. I can live w/o a radio or windows, but the other stuff is going to get me killed! How easy is this to fix taking it to a garage or doing it myself? How much am I looking at paying?

Thursday, December 25th, 2008 AT 12:01 AM

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ZACKMAN

MECHANIC
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You can do this yourself. I take that the dog chewed the wire cluster, everything broken, but you have both ends. All you need is just to solder/crimp all the wires back together. All wires under the floorboard are color-coded. Get yourself some wires of similar gauge, I think 16 gauge, and find one wire at a time.

Here is another suggestion. Go to a wrecking yard, find a Sentra, 93-94 model year with same body style (2 door or 4 door), go towards the area where the dog chewed, cut the wire harness that was chewed, and all you have to do now, is solder/crimp matching color to color.

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Thursday, December 25th, 2008 AT 2:32 AM