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DISCUSSION => Electrical => Topic started by: Voluted on May 21, 2008, 06:36:23 PM

Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Voluted on May 21, 2008, 06:36:23 PM: My uncle had a set of tweeters he wasn't using and gave to me and i was hoping to put them in the same place the premium audio tweeters were mounted. The wiring is there already for them but i am not getting sound when i connect my speakers.

Do those wires need to be connected somewhere or did the premium tweeter pods have something like a built in crossover required for sound?

- Forgot to mention that i do not have any of the factory premium 'upgrades' installed in the car.
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: ak96ss on May 21, 2008, 07:04:30 PM: I don't believe the other end of those wires is hooked up to anything unless you have the premium system.
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Royalratch on May 22, 2008, 09:20:00 AM: Yeh - behind the footwell speaker, which is where this wiring terminates, the wires just vanish. real bitch because I have the OEM pods with nice JBL tweeters retro-fitted into them and no way to reach the bloody crossovers!

I really need to just get the wiring through the door loom but that's so tight there's no room.
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Gooch on May 22, 2008, 01:32:24 PM: Royalratch,

Might want to take a look at this thread over on r3v that was just posted:

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=111459
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Royalratch on May 23, 2008, 05:16:01 AM: Thanks dude.

But how do you get it through the rubber boot which is really tightly bent and not looking to accept any wires through it?
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: ak96ss on May 23, 2008, 08:42:37 AM: It's definitely a tight fit, but I have 12ga speaker wire running through there, so regular speaker wire should fit just fine. Just takes a lot of finagling.

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/SDbLRDXleZI/AAAAAAAADaI/9RX2o3BPjeM/s800/IMG_1511.JPG)
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Cobra Jet on May 23, 2008, 09:25:45 AM: What are the colors of the tweeter wiring from the pods - and what colors are they once coming from the door into the kick panel area?
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: Cobra Jet on May 23, 2008, 09:27:39 AM: Quote from: ak96ss;49943
It's definitely a tight fit, but I have 12ga speaker wire running through there, so regular speaker wire should fit just fine. Just takes a lot of finagling.

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/SDbLRDXleZI/AAAAAAAADaI/9RX2o3BPjeM/s800/IMG_1511.JPG)

oooo... what is the brown wire w/ purple stripe? The reason I ask is I have this wire on both the L & R side of my 318ic behind the kick panels - however, the factory female spade connector on the wire is not connected to ANYTHING within the kick panel, nor can I find any spare or unhooked wires anywhere, not in the kick panel, not going to the A-pillar and nothing in the wiring harness along the rocker...??
Title: Tweeters plug and play?
Post by: ak96ss on May 23, 2008, 10:11:47 AM: Brown/purple wire is the ground for the door switches - when you open the door and the lights turn on, that is the wire that grounds the lights so they can come on.

The stock tweeter wiring is gray/green and green/yellow to the C404 (passenger) and C405 (driver) connectors. Those are the big, rubber encased plugs where the door wiring goes. From there, gray/green stays that color to the woofer, and green/yellow stays the same to the C406 (passenger) and C407 (driver) connectors. Those are single-wire connectors located somewhere around the woofers. Passenger side then becomes 2 gray/brown wires (out of that single-wire connector), driver side becomes two gray/violet wires out of that single-wire connector.

EDIT: In fact, you can see the passenger side stock tweeter wires exiting that plug in the picture I took. The side of the connector facing you, at the top edge.