Posi-Locks, would you reccomend using them as an alternative to soldering?

[Seanl]

Yep, those are the ones. I know bugger all about music installs though, but I know that if you put your treble speakers in line with the front ones, the signal will take the path of least resistance though so your fronts will loose effectiveness and rears will sound poo! Better off with an amp designed for this sort of thing, or a proper signal splitter type thing. (crossover I think ). Ask that question in the relevant section and you'll get a better answer though mate.

[thai-wronghorse]

Why would you want to put treble speakers (tweeters) in the rear shelf? 

[chiefwhosm]

Because I have a spare set of treble speakers, I figured treble in the shelf (well under the plastic if I'm honest for testing purposes I wouldnt cut holes) and bass in the rear doors (it's a 4 door with no speakers in the rear).

I mean okay, it's not going to be a fantastic sound system, but it will be an interesting experiment.

Chief

[danny_p]

the problem with soldering is you ceate a section of wire that is effectivly one fat singel strand of wire, and is prone to fail over time,  the other problem is the flux residue it encorages corrosion     for circuit boards solder is optimal   for wireing looms it isn't  but its not the worst.


scitch locks are the worst as they arn't sealed and they also pinch the strands of the wire after time the electrical connection often fails ether due to the strands makeing up the core of the wore snapping or becomeing corroded.

crimps    this type of crimp is crap.   nigh on inpossible to get enough pressure to securely hold the cores but usefull for quick tempoary repairs

  these are the crimps are much better the ones you really want have wings that are folded round by the crimping tool and forced down into the cores of the cabel

they look a bit like that and are the best way of joining wires in automotive applications once coverd in heatshrink.

thats how motec reccomend you join wires if you have to when installing there ecu's tho the ideal is to replace whole wire it's how vw train there monkeys to repair looms and the crimps that hold all the wires into your ecu plug are the same as that one  the ones in your fusebox ain't much diffent ether

[Ess_Three]

the problem with soldering is you ceate a section of wire that is effectivly one fat singel strand of wire, and is prone to fail over time,  the other problem is the flux residue it encorages corrosion     for circuit boards solder is optimal   for wireing looms it isn't  but its not the worst.

  these are the crimps are much better the ones you really want have wings that are folded round by the crimping tool and forced down into the cores of the cabel

If you haven't got crimps, soldering the wires like above, and then covering then in adhesive lined heat-shrink to give protection and strength, is about as good as you can get.

[Seanl]

Agreed but the first cheap crimps are more than adequate if like mentioned, the correct crimping tool is used. A decent connection cannot be made by using a pair of pliers and crushing the cable on 2 sides. It will simply break the cable core or weaken the crimp end and work loose with vibration.