Premium Speaker Install: Help Needed

[Jean]

Look at the above pictures where the green wires connect the tweeter....do the same.

[Nicademus]

OK I'm still confused and didn't get sound from my tweeter. Which wire goes where?

The 2 on the left were the ones originally hooked up to the stock speaker.

[Nicademus]

Going to try this NOW

[Nicademus]

I still haven't done this yet. Hopefully tomorrow I'll take a crack at it.

[StereoInstaller1]

Aftermarket crossovers (if decent ones) are a HUGE improvement over the stock premium sound ones.

[robrez]

Good luck on that one, bucko.

Keep in mind that the speaker only gets 3 wires in the stock configuration:

Negative, audio in and tweeter out. The tweeter negative wire goes to the negative in the harness.

Now I'm confused. Are aftermarket crossovers good or do they not work?

[itsbrokeagain]

this is a good thread. Im about to rewire my 88 for it, and it came with the premium sound. I ripped out all that crap though, and ran my headunit and the RCAs to the back where the amp and the small box is.

I will just run speakerwires to the front, and wire the rears up right in the trunk. Makes life easy :)

I should really run all new cable to the mains and run new wire up to the tweeters..they are blown and have to be replaced...whoever put the stereo in before did a shit job of doing it.

[Nicademus]

Good luck on that one, bucko.

Keep in mind that the speaker only gets 3 wires in the stock configuration:

Negative, audio in and tweeter out. The tweeter negative wire goes to the negative in the harness.

See thats what was throwing my off (well one of the things at least). I couldn't figure out were all the wires would go but thats a relief to know that it only uses 3 of the wires.

Thanks buddy

We sold the house that you worked on my car at. I think its cause you're so lucky. We should probably give you a cut of the money.

[StereoInstaller1]

From what I've read and what Luke (Stereoinstaller1) has told me; it makes a big improvement on the sound quality of these speakers. I actually have 1 Eclipse crossover, but need to find it a mate.

Good luck on that one, bucko.

Keep in mind that the speaker only gets 3 wires in the stock configuration:

Negative, audio in and tweeter out. The tweeter negative wire goes to the negative in the harness.

[Nicademus]

I wish I could help, but in anticipation of my own future foibles, would it be any easier to just add some aftermarket crossovers?

From what I've read and what Luke (Stereoinstaller1) has told me; it makes a big improvement on the sound quality of these speakers. I actually have 1 Eclipse crossover, but need to find it a mate.

[robrez]

I wish I could help, but in anticipation of my own future foibles, would it be any easier to just add some aftermarket crossovers?

[Nicademus]

Thanks for the help thus far, but now its dark, its late, its cold and those are the excuses I can come up with not to work on it anymore right now...oh and my GF wants me to come over.

I'm still a little confused, but looking at how the rears are wired up really helped shed some light on it and Jeans explanation.

[bimmerpirate]

I can get pictures of how it's wired up. I wired mine myself and my bro's is factory wired. I'll grab pictures tuesday.

[Jean]

Look again, the inductor (coil on the midwoofer) is in Series with the mid and doesn't let the high freq. sound go to the midrange speaker. The capacitor is in series with the tweeter and only lets high freq. sound through . This is a 1st order crossover network. Basically trace the tweeter wire, one wire should go through the capacitor (the red cylinder in your pictures) and one connect directly to your speaker wire form the cdplayer/amplifier.

Excuse the paintshop drawing...

[dashboardmonkey]

They hook up the same as the rears