Help With Front Door Speaker Wires

[blueprint]

Hi eyeryone

I'm trying to run new speaker wires to my front doors but I can't seem to find a way, cause factory wiring to the door is just a plug so I was wondering if someone could help me out.

Also I was wondering where people have been mounting there tweeters.

thanks

[Falchoon]

Also I was wondering where people have been mounting there tweeters.

thanks

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The factory Premium Sound has the tweeters in the A pillar.

[Fat-Tony]

why dont you just splice the wires running from your amp into the original speaker wires running into the door

[cqae]

actually, running wires through that door rubber is quite easy. just pull back the rubber & ther will be plenty or room to poke through wires-might even be a 10mm bolt in there to undo- mine has a few spares ins but it might cos its a ute.

[Fat-Tony]

quick tip if your amping up some rear speakers in a ute re-enforce the mounting plate that ford give you, because it tends to rattle.

[DaRKy]

ok I've been at it all day and cannot manage to get wires thru those front doors ... pulled off heaps of crap, inside I can't even get to the plug cause of the sound deadening. how on earth do u do it

[RAP1D]

You could just re use the orig wires, as thin and crap as they are it does make things alot easier

[Paradoxx]

I wouldnt recommend it if you plan on using an amp. Higher current = more heat and with less copper that can be bad. It can also give u lower quality top end sound.

[RAP1D]

Sound qual would suffer for sure... heat wise its fine, unless your playing sine waves at full volume

[bob^]

Over such a short length of wire, the resistance would be minimal. You'd have to be running a lot of power to want to replace that part of the wiring. (70watts would equate to around 4amps, and since music is dynamic, those power levels would never be sustained unless playing sine waves)

I'm running the stock wiring from just inside the kick panels, the doors, to my Dynaudio mids, and they sound just fine.

Saying sound quality will suffer is quite a subjetive thing. Some people claim to be able to hear the difference between run of the mill cable, and their $1000/m cable. I'm not one of those people, and I never will be.

I know of a particular award winning SQ car which uses the factory wiring for the short length. Guess his sound quality couldn't have suffered too much .

My hands are too fat to get in there to run new speaker wire. I spent ages trying it.

Other people have used the grommet just above the factory one in the bottom of the pillar, and then punched a hole in the rubber in the door and ran it through that way, but I'm not a huge fan of that.

Edited 13/07/06 10:38 AM by bob^