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General => Car audio => Topic started by: SLIM-DUB on 27 January 2007, 13:36
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can anyone help me with the sizes of speakers that are in a mk2 and if anyone has used a certain make that sound really good,whether they were cheap or costly,just want some advice as my golf needs the sounds sorting out and just wanted to know some views so i can choose my path! many thanks in advance! :wink:
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there should be some rear speakers i think which are 6X4 but the front i don't know some mk2 have speakers in the door cards plastic trim at the bottom and tweeters in the dash but some only have speakers in the dash.
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thanks bud,mines got some supposed mac audio in the doors,gotta have a full re-fit of my stereo tho as im not sure that even half of what i got are working! :shocked:
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As said the rears are 6 x 4 and the fronts door pods hold 5.5 inch or 13 cm
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the dash ones by the window are a well dodge size, are they 10 or 8cms? correct me if im wrong, but look bigger than they are anyway, some of my mates have bought 13cms and had some fitting problems. The mk3s have that pretty much sorted though as they (or mine at least) have factory fit tweeters in there, which are going good so far, wouldnt want to blow them though as fitting new ones (or disconnecting the old ones even!) will be quiet a task ( no screws visable! )
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What problems have your mates had with the fitting of 13cm speakers ?
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in the dash tweeter bits in a mk2, they are like 10 or maybe even 8 cm, 13cms will fit (just!) but it mishapes the dash plastic and can snap it. im pretty sure this was the case in the mk2s, best way is to take them out and see, the door speakers im not too sure of, never seen any at all!
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cheerz for all the input people! been looking about for some 6x4's and found a good set of jbl's for 18.99 on the bay! as for the doors,i will be taking em to bits today to see if they are connected so will get some measurements and let u know what the crack is with them! :wink: thanks again!
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Apologies for hijacking the thread, Tom when you said your mates had probs fitting 13cm speakers I thought you meant in the doors ! I've never seen that size in the dash and imagine it would be a nightmare to fit oversize speakers into such a small space, the correct size for the dash speakers are 3.5 inch and in my first Golf I fitted these :-
http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/infinity-reference-3012cf-p-4542.html?cadid=87b757f8f2c503b6537dd4d8985157cc
They were a tight fit and I had to solder the connections as there wasn't enough room for spade end connectors, but the fuss was worth it as they sounded way better than the crappy standard ones :smiley:
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no worries bud,they look sweet and reasonably priced too! trying to make the gti mine at the mo,having got it 2 wks ago,i still havent really done anything to make it mine yet,but im trying today! :wink:
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Apologies for hijacking the thread, Tom when you said your mates had probs fitting 13cm speakers I thought you meant in the doors ! I've never seen that size in the dash and imagine it would be a nightmare to fit oversize speakers into such a small space, the correct size for the dash speakers are 3.5 inch''
more appologies from me!
the problem you mentioned with the connectors is the problem we had! thats why the plastic cover bent and has snapped in another car i have seen! the one i had input into though has since been sorted with the above mentioned spks but a jbl version, sounds sweet, he has some pillar mount tweeters aswell now, they make such a difference.
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In my mk2 I have an old school alpine 35x4 head unit and cd changer (in glovebox) in my mk 2, JBL power series (metal cone nice speaker) in dash positions and some standard jbl 6x4s in rear shelf supports. its not bassy at all even though I have dynamatted the areas where they are but it is nice and clear and crisp.
In my Bora I have a 4x60 alpine mp3 head unit with all sorts of fancy time correction stuff on it and a 600wrms alpine V12 monoblock amp with a new generation type R 12" sub, with factory speakers in car and that sounds awesome, so would recommend an alpine mp3 unit, I used to mate this with jbl speakers in my old car (pug dont ask) and that sounded really nice.
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nice 1 bud,i'll be looking into some jbl's for the rear of mine very soon,cash permitting! :wink:
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I'd just like to add that the alpine mp3 headunit I mentioned above is now in the mk2, the sound quality with the JBLs is very good. Still a bit lacking in bass, but thats probably due to the small speaker size. Am looking at amping a set of components into the doors and run the crossover to the 3.5" JBL in the dash so that that recieves the highs.
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nice to hear your up and running! its up to you but personally I would leave the JBLs in the dash running off the HU, maybe add an inline bass blocker ( couple of quid, halfrauds ) on the + wire. two reasons why.
firstly, the crossover high 'output' will be too high really for the JBLs as they are essentially 'full range' speakers, basically only the tweeter part of the JBL coaxes will be working, silly to waste the proper backcone part, may give a noticable boost to noises like cymbal's or high voices for example.
secondly, you will get the tweeters with the componant set you buy and they are supposed to run off the high crossover output anyway so why not use them?!
nice looking tweeter locations can be done much easier than this but this is one of the best ive seen.
http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/vbb/showthread.php?t=159311
even whack the tweeters near by where the grab handles would be at the top of the doors ( on the roof liner though!) you will notice a lot of difference if you use the proper tweeters.
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Cheers mate, was hoping the crossover would do the same job as the bass blocker but obviously not, lol. Do I need one of these for each of the two speakers?