Rear Speaker Hook Up

[rick miller]

I just picked up a pair of rear speakers used but new looking, part # 2L1F-18808-DB. looks like these are for the Navagator, but wanted to use them as an extra rear support for my rear door pair in my 2003 ST. I have the wiring hookups behind the rear seats, back behind the storage compartments.



The connectors were not the same, but the speakers came with the correct ones. I cut the conectors off my ST wires and spliced them on to the new speakers conectors. After the hookup I had no sound at all in the new speakers, tried both and switched wires to make sure i had not screwed it up some how.



Are the speaker wires "live" back there or do i need to do something to make my ST a 6 way speaker friendly truck? The wires I am talking about are behind the storage compartment rear seats and are "clipped" on a holder for you to just pinch off and i assumed it was a 'plug and play" wire, but apparently not.



Any help would be appriciated. by the way my ST is not an addrinilin or had rear bass speakers before, but it seems to have the wiring to hook it up some how.



Thanks,



Rick

 

[EddieS'04]

Rick, that harness behind the seat is for the 6disc audio phile head unit with 390 watts. The harness is for the subwoofer if you head unit has the connections.

 

[rick miller]

Eddie, Thanks for the info on the harness. There is another one on the passenger side rear also, so I thought it would be for a 6 way speaker setup! Oh well, the speakers were given to me, I may try to slice into the rear door speakers. If not I will go with the sub-woofer, need alittle more sound running down the road these days!



Rick

 

[Jacob Dryer]

Unless you amp them you aren't going to get any more sound, you would be reducing the output of the current rear speakers to drive the new speakers. And if the new speakers aren't mounted to a baffle or installed in a box they aren't going to sound very good. You need something to separate the front wave from the rear.