A while ago I had a shop put in a headunit and they wired the harness up. Last night I was putting in some speakers. In the back there is the tweet ( with a huge enclosure for tweet I was surprised ) and the 6x8 sub. The new speakers have both the tweet and sub in - one. I'm using the factory wiring and wondering if there is a crossover in line somewhere for the back speakers. Should I just hook up the speakers to the wires that were going to the 6x8 or do I need to jump both the original tweet and sub wires together to the new speaker?
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GMAN
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No need to use them. I rewired my whole car. You ever thought about doing that.
87TTOPGT420
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if it had a factory JBL premium sound setup...haha that thing is wired so funky best off to start over, rewire entire car...i didnt i did something a little different....i wired a small aftermarket amp in...did a little wire chasing (hoooray for wiring diagrams) and i got the factory JBL speakers sounding pretty good
NoLimit95
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+1, use your own wire and do the whole car. It's not hard to do until you start feeding it through the rubber hose that goes into the door but it's not bad. Take the tweeter out and see how far you can throw it. The speakers these cars came with are junk. Nothing premium about any of it to be honest.
If you are still using the factory amp then all you have to do is hook the tweeters wires to the new speakers. The amp only sends 300hz and down to the 6x8's and is a summoned mono signal anyway. The tweeter wire is full freequency as the tweeter has a cap on it.
Really it would sound better to re-wire all the speakers and use the aftermarket decks amp to run it all. It has more power then the factory JBL amp does.
Really it would sound better to re-wire all the speakers and use the aftermarket decks amp to run it all. It has more power then the factory JBL amp does.
Great Post! I suspected as such but wasn't sure. I'll re-wire the two I have done and continue on. I re-wired my last mark but just don't want to go through the hastle right now. Maybe once all the bodywork/painting etc. is done I'll get back to it but for right now stock will work. The deck amp was wired in and by-passed the stock amp from what I thought. That's a good point I'll look into that and see what the deal is.
87TTOPGT420
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if you heard my factory JBL speakers the way i have them wired to a small kenwood excelon amp...you would be thinking different.....everything in my mark sounds great, cranks real loud, no distortion, and even sound pretty good if i turn my subs off....The factory JBL tweeters work well...aslong as your filters are set up properly