General Help with replacing speakers

[Towelie88]

Hi all, I haven't had a car for 5 years due to living in central london so I'm a bit out of practice with this stuff, have just moved a bit further out and have picked up a 08 Grande Punto as a cheap runaround.

I have a set of DLS R6A speakers from my old car that have been sitting in the bottom of my wardrobe for years. thought I'd have a go at fitting them today.

first things first - the speakers I want to replace have a seperate woofer and tweeter with a crossover box. In my old car I just took the w

I can see the Grande Punto has seperate wiring for the stock tweeter and woofer.

What do I do here to combine the two? just wire both sets of wires into the input + and -? or do I need an adapter of some kind?

sorry if obvious. I haven't fitted a set of car speakers in a long long time.

 

[jackwhoo]

Hi all, I haven't had a car for 5 years due to living in central london so I'm a bit out of practice with this stuff, have just moved a bit further out and have picked up a 08 Grande Punto as a cheap runaround.

I have a set of DLS R6A speakers from my old car that have been sitting in the bottom of my wardrobe for years. thought I'd have a go at fitting them today.

first things first - the speakers I want to replace have a seperate woofer and tweeter with a crossover box. In my old car I just took the w

I can see the Grande Punto has seperate wiring for the stock tweeter and woofer.

What do I do here to combine the two? just wire both sets of wires into the input + and -? or do I need an adapter of some kind?

sorry if obvious. I haven't fitted a set of car speakers in a long long time.

Just fit the speakers if it needs a cross over it will a already be in car

 

[Towelie88]

Just fit the speakers if it needs a cross over it will a already be in car

So i can just forget about the crossover box and wire it to the existing wiring?

 

[ivmilicevic]

Factory tweeter has built-in crossover(capacitor in series with tweeter, soldered on back of it) so you definitively need to connect crossover that came with new speakers. I replaced factory speakers but they didn't have external crossover so it was plug and play. You can try tracing speaker wires, it wouldn't surprise me if they were spliced together somewhere inside doors.

Also multimeter on continuity mode should show if they are connected together - this should be done with wiring harness disconnected from radio just in case

 

[levemircento]

I am interested in swapping the woofers in my doors, I have found the adapter rings on ebay, so I just need a pair of 6.5inch speakers, is that the correct size?

how do I find out which is the neg and pos terminal on the existing plug where it fits to the speaker?

 

[kjeldio]

Hi!
Connect a 1.5v battery to the old speaker and observe which way the membrane moves, connect the new speaker so the membrane moves the same way.
BRs Kjeld.