question on hooking up subs

You will absolutely need an amp. And if you want to use your stock radio, an impedence adapter. You will also need to run the remote, power, and ground wire to the amp.
 
i have an amp you need to connect it from the back speakers i just want to know if anyone has done that so i know what wires it is
 
chump2825 said:
i have an amp you need to connect it from the back speakers i just want to know if anyone has done that so i know what wires it is
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Yeahh.... Not sure I understand what youre trying to say...
 
Yeah man... its a bit more complicated than that. I think if you don't have much prior experience and don't know anyone who does, you will end up avoiding a huge headache and another potential money pitfall by just getting it done by professionals who can at least be held liable if something did go wrong.
 
Umm, well maybe I could help you if I was provided more information. Post pictures of what you are trying to "hook" up.
 
You have to get a high level to low level inverter if you want to just splice in to the wires going to the rear speakers. Its very easy. Then you just run your power, ground, and remote wires. The subs don't sound quite as good this way, but you can use your stock head unit.
 
Does your amp have high level inputs? If so you can just splice wires into the rear speaker wires and run them to the high level inputs on the amp. If not you'll need a line convertor.
 
ok this is the easiest way i can explain bc im not hooking it up my bro is..in his car he alrdy had a stock sub so he alrdy have the wires to hook up to the amp..now for us we dont have a stock sub so we splice the back speaker wires to hook up to our amps from my understanding where is that wire in our car..like there is many places to get it im curious what is the easiest you get what im trying to say?
 
www.Crutchfield.com They got videos on there to show you how to install stuff cause I have no idea what your talking about it seems like your making it alot more complicated then it should be lol
 
chump2825 said:
ok how would you hook up just subs with an amp to a stock system
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You tap into your stock speaker wires and hook them up to a high/low adapter which converts the high inputs to lows(RCA's). Which can be plugged into the amp. Its simple....
 
rmac694203 said:
You have to get a high level to low level inverter if you want to just splice in to the wires going to the rear speakers. Its very easy. Then you just run your power, ground, and remote wires. The subs don't sound quite as good this way, but you can use your stock head unit.
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The subs should/will sound just as good. Sometimes there is noticeable distortion when you do this, but since this will be used for a bass amp one will not notice. ;)

chump2825 said:
ok now where did you hook it up to the speaker wire theres alot of places i want to know the easiest
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The "easiest" way would be to buy an amp w/ speaker-level inputs, that way you do not have to spring for a converter. You can tap into any Speaker for signal. In the Mark VIII, I would unplug the 8 pin plug (that goes to all the speakers) and splice into the - and + of one of the speakers. As for the remote wire you can splice into the wire for the power antenna lead. If you do this make sure that there is power in that wire even if you are not using the radio, in some cars when you are using the cd player the power is swithed off. Not sure in this car, because I will be doing my install this weekend. This install is a breeze. Good luck.
 
You can just remove the grills in the back seat to access the rear speakers. I just tapped on to the metal pins on the back of the speakers. Run those wires to a high to low level converter, and plug in to the RCA inputs on your amp. After that just run the power, ground, and remote wires and you're good to go. Assuming your amp has a low pass filter to filter the highs out.
 
Just take the rear speakers out, and tap into the wires that go to the connector on the speaker. All you have to do is find out which is positve and which is negative.
 
i dont quite follow what goin on here but from what i gather
you are gonna be overloading you amp and underpowering ur sub nither of witch is good or will last long.......
but if it is a small sub and u just want a little bass bost just get some mid-basses and sell the sub, the mids will hook-up and sound alot better and take up alto less space
 
Fro99 said:
i dont quite follow what goin on here but from what i gather
you are gonna be overloading you amp and underpowering ur sub nither of witch is good or will last long.......
but if it is a small sub and u just want a little bass bost just get some mid-basses and sell the sub, the mids will hook-up and sound alot better and take up alto less space
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I posted the easiest way to get it done. I could add pictures if that would help. How do you figure he would be "overloading you amp and underpowering ur sub"?
 
My suggestion, get rid of the stock system. My system is Infinity Reference component 6.5's to replace the factory speakers, and two 2-way Infinity Amps. One amp powers the speakers, and one amp powers the one 10" sub that I have. The system sounds great.:cool:

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414Boy said:
I posted the easiest way to get it done. I could add pictures if that would help. How do you figure he would be "overloading you amp and underpowering ur sub"?
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i understood that he would be using his stock amp to be powering his sub, witch would not be enfough power, or even a mono amp
 
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