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From what I’ve seen the FG was a single voice coil 2 wire sub? Is that right? FGX is dual voice coil 4 wire, the pics I saw of FG’s all had different wiring

On a side note, changing the polarity on the 8” sub makes a big difference too, the underseat sub gets the kick and lower frequencies and the factory sub gets the kick a bit more. All of a sudden the heavy rock/metal I listen to comes alive. On an fgx the plug at the sub has 4 wires, they’re wired as pairs to each side of the plug, so easy rewire, took 5mins.

I had a decent drive to work today so I played with the EQ the whole way and think I got it sounding much better! The ICC has a volume adjust in the menu from Off-7, at 7 it seems to put more through the tweeters and clean up the sound a little, for me it sounded pretty decent

It’s such a shame that Ford didn’t put something decent into the FGX, what a squandered opportunity, the rest of the car is amazing, why not put in a decent sound processor. Even my old 2013 Ranger had a better stereo. I miss the days of a simple single or double DIN setup 🥺

I just installed a Pioneer Ts-Wx130da underseat sub, goes pretty good. I unfortunately ruined every stereo I had with a big install about 10 years ago on a past car. The whole stereo is ok, the tweeters seem to lack high end clarity, the speakers themselves sound a little hollow, and the sub does a good job filling in the low end, but doesn’t overlap frequencies well with the speakers. I’m resigned to the fact that the factory stereo just outputs a dogsh*t signal, and because I’m using speaker inputs on the amp and sub, I’m essentially just amping an already sh*t signal. Without going completely nuts and putting in another head unit, amps and sub, I’ve pretty much hit a limit I think.

I just did the big install replace today, used the same Rockford 6.75” front and rears. Used the Sony mini-amp XMS400D, 3M double sided taped it to the back of the lower dash panel in front of the drivers left knee. There’s a grommet to the engine bay directly in front, I drilled a decent hole and ran conduit through for the power cable. I soldered every connection and shrink wrapped. Thanks so much for the speaker cable colours!! Saved a stack of time splitting them for the high level feed and 45w outputs. The factory premium speakers are dogsh*t, and the output from the factory stereo is rubbish, this little amp will help huge. Next step is sort out the swinging-in-the-breeze 8” “sub”, not sure what to do because running a power feed to the back is going to be a pain in the arse. Might run an under seat sub, not sure yet.

I’m in a 2016 G6E Turbo tuned to 325kw-ish 19” BGW Titans with KYB and Kings all round

Lowered G6E Turbo. KYB Gas-A-Just all round with SSL rear and SL front. BGW Titan 19x8.5 35p front, 19x9.5 40p rear