Door Speakers

[Dave04]

My driver door speaker is dead. Anyone change out their speakers if so how hard was it? What did you use?

 

[MBHall]

Usually the front doors are a 6x9. If you order speakers from Crutchfield: LCD TV, Car Stereo, Home Theater, Speakers, Digital Cameras they will send you a wiring harness that plugs into the factory clip, very clean & easy install, or you will need to cut off the factory clips and attach the wires right to the speakers. They also send you full instructions on how to take the door panel off. 2 or 3 way speakers will sound great, you should notice a big difference in the sound.

 

[DaveHess]

I have been checking out the Crutchfield site for some time. I was looking at the JL Audio speakers for my truck.

 

[Dave04]

I would like some more sound as well. I am thinken about replacing all the door speakers and the deck.

 

[MBHall]

JL makes great speakers. If you want to add a deck, My 05 had the factory Infinity system, When I put my deck in it there was no sound. I had to run speaker wire from the amps, or deck, to the speakers. My 04 did not have the factory infinity system, puting a new deck and speakers in that was strait ahead. I think the factory deck puts out about 5-10 watts, most aftermerket decks are 20 watts and up. you will also see a big difference in the size of the magnets in the factory and aftermarket speakers aftermarkets will be bigger, and able to handle more power.

 

[Dave04]

I don't have the infinity system. Sound good to me tho.

 

[Wingate]

I Installed Infinity from Crutchfield... . they are probably the easiest install I've ever done. Sounds alot better.

 

[DaveHess]

I have the Sony GT 640UI. Green backlighting and 52w x 4 power. It has a USB for iPod or in my case, I bought a Sony 8G thumb drive and loaded all my music on it. It also has an AUX for my MP3 player. As a side note, you can use the USB cable from the MP3 player and control the player from the 640 but with limited flexibility. It does charge the MP3 though. Now just need to upgrade the speakers.

 

[everittak]

When you do it, drop by Home Depot (ect) and pick up some *****ithane strips or the like (non-sanded of course). They're cheap so you don't have to buy the entire roll $80 and the adhesive will outlive the truck. Lay strips inside the door anywhere that there is a flat surface - but make sure your windows rolled down doesn't interfere with placement. The deadening will help with the road noise as well as solidify any speaker you shove in there. Beats spending tons of money on dynamat and worth the effort since you're in there.

 

[R.Taylor]

If your only going to upgrade the speakers you need to get 2 ohm speakers... . Not 4 or 8 ohm as that's usually what's found on the shelf at BestBuy and so on. If you put 4 ohm speakers in you will get less sound and the stock deck / amp will run hot. Infinity makes a few nice 2 ohm speakers which are made and marketed as replacement OEM speakers. My 06 has the Infinity system in it but I swapped out the stock speakers with the Infinity Kappa 2 ohm speakers... Front and rear. Even though I had the Infinity system to start with... The replacement Kappa's sound 1000 times better. I'm happy with the sound now and I'll be leaving it as it is... . Last time I put in a new stereo I went overboard and dumped about $5k into one hell of a Alpine system.

 

[Lorenz]

The infinity oem deck and infinity OEM speaker we taken out of my " new to me" 07.

The dealer wants $297 for the deck and I'm kinda leaning that route so that my blue tooth and steering wheel volume controls work.

Souls I go this route with the Infinity 2ohm aftermarket speakers?

I still have to see if the amp is still in the dash along with the 3 dash speakers. I didn't see any additional speaker wires so I assume the amp and dash speaker are all still there and wasn't replaced with an aftermaket deck?

 

[Lorenz]

To clarify. The 6x9 front door speakers are gone along with the OEM infinity deck.

 

[DaveHess]

Here is an update on my post above. I installed JL Audio 6-1/2" two ways in mine and found the bass went almost entirely away unless I turned on the "Loud" function of my stereo and then everything seemed to flatten out. I went to a local stereo shop and bought a set of 6x9's for the front door and I got more bass back without the Loud turned on. For some reason, the factory speakers would rattle the rearview mirror but the new speakers won't. Not that that is the measure I used for my stereo, its just that the factory for me had better bass response than the aftermarket speakers do with the same Sony deck. Now I am smart enough to know that the new speakers require more power to drive them than the factory ones did. So, I am looking at a 10" sub for under the passenger side rear seat with a 100W amp just for the sub. I am not looking for a "thumping" subcompact car stereo annoyance but rather when I listen to Boston's "More Than A Feeling", I want to feel like I am standing front row center of the stage watching Brad Delp (RIP) belt it out.