Hey guys,
I bought Alpine Type-S 6x9 two-ways this morning and installed them myself this afternoon in my 02 Cavalier sedan. Every guide I've read online for rear speaker installs on Cavaliers had told the reader to cut the factory harness, match up the polarity on the two wires (yellow, brown, light blue, dark blue) and solder.
However I did not do this. I cut off the "plug" from my factory 6x9s and attached the copper wires to the leads of the Alpine speakers, once completed I plugged them into the factory harness. I then started up the car and voila, it worked. I had my fingers crossed and nothing blew, these speakers are a lot better than stock.
So since I did this "my own way", I need to know... may this cause any problems in the future? Did anyone else do these? I understand this is sort of a hack job, but hey, it works.
Thanks in advance for the replies!
Thanks for the quick reply!
Hopefully this method holds up.
personally i wouldn't solder the wires. i just go all out on electrical tape so nothing comes loose.
Doug DeBonet wrote:personally i wouldn't solder the wires. i just go all out on electrical tape so nothing comes loose.
With that comment, you're officially at Anton status and anything you say or suggest will be treated as fallacy.
Lanman31337 - Cavfire wrote:Doug DeBonet wrote:personally i wouldn't solder the wires. i just go all out on electrical tape so nothing comes loose.
With that comment, you're officially at Anton status and anything you say or suggest will be treated as fallacy.
c'mon now thats way worse than anything ive ever said!
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That is in the eye of the beholder sir.
hey it works. and who wants to sit there and run new speaker wire if you cut the wire too short?
Uh what? I would because hoping that your connections stay together and knowing that they will are completely different and is a sign of a hack job vs a quality install.
all my head unit connections have stayed together for over a year and a half using electrical tape. and i redid them because i got it installed at pc richards for free. after they broke half my dashboard and did a @!#$ty install using wirenuts and not using using a lick of tape to hold the wires together. i don't even think i know anyone that uses solder.
I soldered my TFT DVD player. Im cool for taping to cover connections but twisting and taping doesnt do it.
well yeah i know soldering is the correct way to do it. i haven't really had any problems cuz i tape everything nice and tight. when i did my head unit i yanked pretty hard on it to make sure nothing was coming loose and it didn't even slip. i've also only soldered wiring once on one of my old type r's. not very experienced with it.
Doug DeBonet wrote:well yeah i know soldering is the correct way to do it. i haven't really had any problems cuz i tape everything nice and tight. when i did my head unit i yanked pretty hard on it to make sure nothing was coming loose and it didn't even slip. i've also only soldered wiring once on one of my old type r's. not very experienced with it.
if you twist and tape and give it a yank it will come apart. that is unless you strip like 3 inches of wire and do army knots or some crap like that.
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lmao nah. you use about 3-4 inchess of tape on the exposed wire nice and tight, give a light tug with your index and thumb to make sure it's secure. then when everything is wired you tape the whole harness over the taped parts and cover an inch to each side. if you do it good enough you won't be able to tear it at all. and no one's going to see it.
Until you have to take it out in a few years. Tape gets really nasty in a hot car.
haha yeah that's true. but i prob won't even take it out perfect head unit, alpine cda-9885. when i redo the speakers and everything i'm getting either a clarion or a cadence EQ. even though it sounds good the way i have it cuz you can set the bass for the subs to play a certain range, same with treble. i doubt im even going to sell the car. plan is to get a 240 hatch and build a drift car. use the cavy as a daily.
Can anyone give me some advise on wiring my 6 X 9 polk audio mmc690 momo series 3 ways back in. I recently did the eco swap in my 99 so obviously you need to change the interior harness as well. the polk's were originally wired in and I used the electronic crossover that came with them on my old harness but the 4 wires per speaker is new to me. I'm not getting very reliable readings with my fluke and I'm not going to wire them in blind. Any advice that doesn't involve crappy tape jobs would be helpful. Btw to make up joints I use non-insulated butt connectors, solder, liquid electrical tape (scotch bright), and then top in off with shrink wrap per each butt splice and another for that group of wires. A little overkill, yes, but I've never ran into any problems with corrosion on splices done outside of the car.
People can't learn common sense. You're born with it. Either you have it or you just don't!
The monsoon amp (which I take it you have now) has a pair of wires for midbass and a pair of wires for treble.
Fortunately, you could go to the INPUTs of the monsoon amp, where there are only two wires and they have the whole signal. I believe they'll be the standard yellow. brown, lt green and dark green.
Failing that, run speaker wire from the CD player back to the speakers.
Yeah I cheated and jumped the yellow brown and dark blue light blue to the speakers and picked up signal to my polks. Itll work for now until i I changed everything over in the spring. wanna clean up the body work before the winter takes up the back doors also but ill end up with 3 amp, 1 for the front doors, 1 for the 6 x 9s and 1 for 2 10s in the trunk. its one money, why not spent it on something that takes me to annd from work.
People can't learn common sense. You're born with it. Either you have it or you just don't!
You could do a 4 channel amp and a sub amp, that would be better.
Your car may do 13 sec @ 103 mph, but my car does 146db @ 35 hz.
I'm newer to doing a good sound system so this and any future input is much needed.
People can't learn common sense. You're born with it. Either you have it or you just don't!