Upgraded my 04 BOSE and wanted to pass off a few tips.
1. Adding components: The front speakers are in parallel. This is helpful because the door speaker wire and pillar speaker wire split under the dash at the base of the pillar. I mounted the crossover there. Cut the Y, insert the end from the radio into the input on the crossover, then the wire leading to the door can go into the woofer out and boom, components without the need to run wires!
2. Front Door speakers: the 6.5 components I chose were too big for the brackets I got from Crutchfield. I had mount them with self tapping metal screws. You may want to consider 5.25 if going the component route and you want to use Metra brackets
3. Front door speakers: The stock speakers had a foam shroud over the basket. I had nothing to replace it with and figured NBD. Wrong. I lost my door speakers when it rained. Water does go into the door panel and the speaker wouldn?t work until it dried. I got 6.5 Boom Mat baffles from Crutchfield to fix it. I left mine enclosed, with a small unsealed hole in the bottom for the speaker wire. With my infinity speaker powered by the Bose amp, they don?t sound muffled. If they did sound muffled, I would expand the hole until they sounded right.
4. Impedance: The Bose speakers are low impedance. I chose 3 ohm Infinity speakers and the volume loss was indiscernible.
5. Pillar speakers: it was as easy as using a razor knife to slightly widen the hole and drop in the surface mount adapter for the tweeter. It had a threaded lock ring on the back, but hot glue works well too.
Eventually I?ll ditch the Bose amp. This is stage 2. Stage one was an eclipse head unit, JL midgate, and sub amp.
1. Adding components: The front speakers are in parallel. This is helpful because the door speaker wire and pillar speaker wire split under the dash at the base of the pillar. I mounted the crossover there. Cut the Y, insert the end from the radio into the input on the crossover, then the wire leading to the door can go into the woofer out and boom, components without the need to run wires!
2. Front Door speakers: the 6.5 components I chose were too big for the brackets I got from Crutchfield. I had mount them with self tapping metal screws. You may want to consider 5.25 if going the component route and you want to use Metra brackets
3. Front door speakers: The stock speakers had a foam shroud over the basket. I had nothing to replace it with and figured NBD. Wrong. I lost my door speakers when it rained. Water does go into the door panel and the speaker wouldn?t work until it dried. I got 6.5 Boom Mat baffles from Crutchfield to fix it. I left mine enclosed, with a small unsealed hole in the bottom for the speaker wire. With my infinity speaker powered by the Bose amp, they don?t sound muffled. If they did sound muffled, I would expand the hole until they sounded right.
4. Impedance: The Bose speakers are low impedance. I chose 3 ohm Infinity speakers and the volume loss was indiscernible.
5. Pillar speakers: it was as easy as using a razor knife to slightly widen the hole and drop in the surface mount adapter for the tweeter. It had a threaded lock ring on the back, but hot glue works well too.
Eventually I?ll ditch the Bose amp. This is stage 2. Stage one was an eclipse head unit, JL midgate, and sub amp.
