Re-wiring the car speakers - Page 2

bourbon · 19-09-2007, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Blade_shinigami

i was planning on runnning the bunnings heaqvy duty speaker cables from the head unit to the speakers, and then using amp wires from speaker to amp.
So wiring teh bak door speakers wont be much help in the end use of the quality i'm concluding to by ur last post

whats this post mean then??? you say you got an amp... confusing simple minded people like me

Rupewrecht · 19-09-2007, 12:30 PM

If you haven't got an amp yet but are planning to get one, there's not point in redoing your speaker wires yet. Why do the job twice?

Blade_shinigami · 19-09-2007, 01:00 PM

soz bourbon, i just re-read my thing and realised wat u were getting at.

ok, so wat should i do, since i hvent got an amp yet, just install the head unit with the current cables in it,but should i really bother with teh soldering coz i'll hve to unsolder it wont i when i wanna re-wire it, when i get an amp?

bourbon · 19-09-2007, 01:14 PM

use what wires are in their atm...but solder then and heat shrink it

much nearer job...

then when you get a new amp rewire it all in then, cause what you have to do is run a wire from the back of the car to the front doors on each side of the car

Blade_shinigami · 19-09-2007, 11:09 PM

kool, i'll do that then, i thought i would b able to do part of the job now, so i had little to fumble with later

DavoAust · 20-09-2007, 12:44 AM

you could make sure you have good grounds and label your wiring now. it'll help **** loads in the future. the dude that owned my car screwed up the wiring something terrible. speakers were cutting in and out and the cd player didnt work. took me 2 weekends to fix it. pulled about 6m of wiring out of the dash, he just cut it off his amp, twisted it and pushed it back there. retard.

anyway, make sure you have good power and earth to the HU, and plan how you'll run the speaker wiring etc. remember RCAs and power dont mix.

RedLineResident · 20-09-2007, 09:47 AM

See no one informed me about using the batery trick to find which speaker I was about to connect to which channel on my deck. So connecting say the rear right speaker for example to the rich output was a bit of a job.

If you are unfamiliar with this as i was, what you do is get the two wires that resemble each other, (eg blue wire with black stripe and blue wire with a white stripe etc) and put a AA batery to them. The speaker that they lead to will pop.

I spent hours taking off trip trying to colour match the damn wire with the damn speaker. You can imagine how peeved off I was when I saw a mate sort it out in his car in 2mins.

Blade_shinigami · 20-09-2007, 01:43 PM

o? this will come in very handy, thnx RedLine, now i can figure out which is which

19-09-2007, 12:30 PM	#22
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20-09-2007, 09:47 AM	#27
RedLineResident Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Car: BA V6 Hardtop 5 Speed & 97 Prelude VTIR Posts: 1,518 View Photos By: RedLineResident	See no one informed me about using the batery trick to find which speaker I was about to connect to which channel on my deck. So connecting say the rear right speaker for example to the rich output was a bit of a job. If you are unfamiliar with this as i was, what you do is get the two wires that resemble each other, (eg blue wire with black stripe and blue wire with a white stripe etc) and put a AA batery to them. The speaker that they lead to will pop. I spent hours taking off trip trying to colour match the damn wire with the damn speaker. You can imagine how peeved off I was when I saw a mate sort it out in his car in 2mins. __________________ "Amateurs practice until they get it right." "Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong."

19-09-2007, 01:00 PM	#23
Blade_shinigami Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Melbourne Car: mazda 323 astina hardtop Posts: 74 View Photos By: Blade_shinigami	soz bourbon, i just re-read my thing and realised wat u were getting at. ok, so wat should i do, since i hvent got an amp yet, just install the head unit with the current cables in it,but should i really bother with teh soldering coz i'll hve to unsolder it wont i when i wanna re-wire it, when i get an amp?

19-09-2007, 11:09 PM	#25
Blade_shinigami Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Melbourne Car: mazda 323 astina hardtop Posts: 74 View Photos By: Blade_shinigami	kool, i'll do that then, i thought i would b able to do part of the job now, so i had little to fumble with later

20-09-2007, 01:43 PM	#28
Blade_shinigami Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Melbourne Car: mazda 323 astina hardtop Posts: 74 View Photos By: Blade_shinigami	o? this will come in very handy, thnx RedLine, now i can figure out which is which