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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobrajeff96" data-source="post: 1526510" data-attributes="member: 29141">If you are talking about extending wires with a joint, it really just depends. In the interior of the car, you absolutely can use fleece tape to overbraid the run. It's perfectly fine. Interior cabins should be a moisture-free zone; if not, you have bigger problems that needs addressing first and foremost. However, the same can be done for the outside of the car if you're out of heatshrink or just did the dreaded forgot to put the shrink tube on before adjoining the two segments. In either case, you would use exterior cloth tape. Lots of OEMs do this to protect their wires, whether it's one continuous run or on a splice joint with multiple wires contributing to the joint. Heat shrink is just another way of doing it, albeit a more preferred way but in my opinion only if the heatshrink is glue-lined (in almost every case that is). In fact some of the solder seal joints I make will have one turn of exterior cloth tape wrapped over them if there's a few such joints in a single bundle adjacent to one another due to extreme space constraints (and no other feasible choice) as an added protection.Ideally, you'd heatshrink everything. But where it's either impossible or otherwise unworkable, certain tapes (other than crap vinyl) will suffice and they will stand the test of time and usage. BLUF:  vinyl tape is a dinosaur these days. Almost no OEMs for the last five years use it anymore. All your Audis, BMWs, Bentleys, etc, won't have a single inch of it.</blockquote>