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Title: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 19 March 2011, 21:41

Hi all,
No doubt been spoken about before but I cant turn anything up with a search.

Ive replaced the front speakers in the doors with a pair of decent coaxials and as nice as they sound, the same cannot be said about the dash top tweeters!

If I unplug the two cables running into them, I obviously lose the feed to the ones in the doors, how can I disable them and still allow the full signal feed to the co-axs in the doors?

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: sharki786 on 20 March 2011, 11:13

i think the tweeter is connected to the door speaker, if you trace the wire they should be joined.

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 20 March 2011, 21:45

Im assuming the tweeter unit contains the crossover and therefore I could just bypass it by wiring the input [to the tweeter] to the output [to the door driver] ?
Sound about right?

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: gm8 on 20 March 2011, 21:48

afaik they are wired in parallel , so disconnecting them wont knock out the door speaker . It is possible to 'fit' aftermarket tweeters in the original mount btw

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 20 March 2011, 21:51

Sorry mate, disconnecting them does knock out the door speaker, hence the question.

If this proves a total PITA I will fit a set of components, seemed silly not to try the coaxs first though.

Cheers

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: gm8 on 20 March 2011, 22:10

if wired in series it should go from HU + to tweeter , -from tweeter to door speaker pos , - from door speaker to -HU if that makes sense.
sounds strnge tho cos in my mk 3 the door speaker was not working but the tweeter was , which would not work if they were wired the way I have mentioned.

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 20 March 2011, 22:14

Think I just need to get busy with tracing the wires then.

Wouldn't be any easier fitting components when I think about it; Id still have to disable the factory tweeters or run seperate cables  :sad:

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: gm8 on 20 March 2011, 22:18

try disconnecting the tweeters , i think its like a dual plug , and bridge the connections + to + . - to - with paperclips

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 20 March 2011, 22:20

Yeh, that's the plan I think; it's two seperate 2 pin plugs

Title: Re: Disabling front dash top tweeters - Mk3
Post by: Ninj on 21 March 2011, 19:22

Just reporting back for anyone else wanting to do this - yeh, the way to do this is to wire + to + and - to - fairly self explanatory when you see the plugs.

Tweeters now removed and feed only to the door speaker location

 :smiley: