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Has anyone replaced the stock rear door speakers? If so what with? What kind of differnce did it make?
I have a 2004 S10 CC with a Pioneer 5900ib that I just installed. Very happy with sound from front but the rear speakers are sad. Any info would be great
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yeah i replaced the rear speackers with some pioneers (costed bout $70 for the pair). i thoght it would sound alot better, but it didn't. It was a little louder, but still not that big of a difference.
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well lets just say I like a lil bump in my cc. so i went and replaced all 6 stock speekers, and i also put a 10" sub with a 600 watt amp on the floor behind the drivers seet. it bumps now!!!!
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I also replaced my rear door speakers with a pair of Alpine Type-S, the only reason i did so was because i wanted all my speakers to match( I replaced my fronts with the same Type-S pair). There was only three differences that I found:
1. I'm out another $100
2. Barely better sound( Only if you sit in the middle of the back seat)
3. All my speakers match.
Not too long after I installed them I put in a 10in Alpine Type-R with a Kicker 400.1 amp and now i just move the fade towards the front because i can't hear anything in the back seat besides the sub. Well i hope this helped.
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Post by SonomaCrewCab »

Ok, so I tried installing some today in the rear door. No good.

The woofer was too deep. It wouldn't fit. Now, the problem is, this was an open box set from my friend. So I didn't have any of the brackets or mounting rings that normally would come with the woofers. Not sure if that is what I was missing, but they didn't fit.

Anybody ran into this problem?

Here are the woofers I tried.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-yvLekVxT1O ... ?i=109P652
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Re JBL's in bkdoors..

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How are you mounting those JBL's?
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Do a search on Ebay for RMB6. IMO, the rear speakers are good for nothing except bass/mid-bass. Kicker makes two shallow mounted midbass drivers, a 6" and an 8". You want the 6" of course (RMB6). Wouldn't hurt to amp them either, but I'd put an amp on the front speakers first.
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Post by SonomaCrewCab »

I was just trying to mount them in the normal stock locations. I suppose I am going to have to look for a shallow mount woofer. Thanks for the tip towards the Kicker.

Also, I didn't even bother with the front doors yet. Am I going to run into this problem there as well? Or is the front door area deep enough to accomodate a deeper magnet on a woofer?
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Post by Walt »

The front doors give you more room. I have a set of kicker components in my front doors. Be warned, even if you drop woofers into the rear doors, you're probably gonna have to put the fader to the back a bit and turn the volume up some to hear much difference. If you can, replace the dash and door speakers at the same time. If you want a drop in, go with a 4x6" plate for the dash (3-4" woofer and a tweeter mounted to a plastic or metal plate), and 6-1/2" coaxials or components for the front doors.

A note on the kicker, it's been a while since I've messed with new car audio stuff, so those model numbers are several years old. :)
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Post by SonomaCrewCab »

Ya I planned on trying to replace all the speakers at once. I do know that the rear speakers don't matter much, but I figure anything can be better than stock.

Ya I could find that Kicker number on Ebay. I actually wanted to try and run all JL Audio but they don't seem to offer a shallow mount. I will have to research some more though.