Front speakers on an RT

[Rick]

Ive got some components ready for the front of my RT. I intend to amp them soon. What I want to know is how do you get the speaker wire from the car into the door? At first I thought the black rubber pipe that runs from the car to the door could just be pulled out and the wires pushed through, but it turns out theres a plug in connector. I thought about drilling out a hole on the connector at the top, and then doing the same on the other side, only problem is that there are a lot of wires about and I dont want to damage them.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers



Rick

 

[steve_rt]

unless you can find some way of using the standard wires in the door (you will have to trace them back to wherever the x-over is and bypass that) then i reckon that drilling is your only option - if youre careful, i cant see how you would go through wires. Just rememebr to copy what the other wire cluster looks like and insulate it well, and rubber grommet the holes.

steve

 

[BRUN]

id simply use the existing wire, and extend it from the footwell side of things, i very much doubt you would notice a difference from using other cable

 

[CS_Matt]

personally if your gonna go to the trouble of amping up your speakers dont use the sh*tty car wiring, run new high quality wire. theres no point half doing a job and u will notice the difference. ive rewired the whole car so nothing runs on standard wiring

 

[Ben P]

I used the existing wiring from the point of the door opening only.

Everything else is uprated. It was either that or as you say drilling a hole, but I couldnt get a drill in there unless I removed the door and that wasnt something I was about to do.

If you are patient it is quite easy to trace the wires into the car and to the relevant speaker/tweeter. I also mounted my crossovers near the footwell and made sutome mdf panels for the doors to house bigger speakers than standard.

I will post some pics on the general board

 

[BRUN]

i very much doubt you would notice a difference in sound quality by using the existing wiring

 

[Clio_novice]

Out of interest, what size are the front door speakers in an RT? 11cm, 12cm or 13cm??? Or different?

 

[Rick]

13cm.