Rabbit car audio

[jaysen71581]

I have a 4- door rabbit and was wondering if anyone has put speakers in the front doors?  If so what size worked best..

[theman53]

I haven't but depending on the door card in your rabbit I would say a 5.25" would be about the biggest you could run maybe a 6.5". I am fairly cerain a 6x9 would not work or look terrible. 4x6 would be cake.

[R.O.R-2.0]

6x9 is too deep.

all rabbits have wing windows right?

depth is going to be the only limiting factor here..

[Vangruver]

6x9 is too deep.

all rabbits have wing windows right?

depth is going to be the only limiting factor here..

you could put the speakers on rings to elevate them from the door cards.

While you're at it, you can add baffles [foam] to prevent them from exposure to moisture. the baffles also provide some restricted airspace as well for better bass response

[fatmobile]

 Sometimes you can find cabby door pockets,
 that have a speaker area in the front.

 Otherwise, there is a round hole in the door for speakers, kinda high up, above the window roller handle,.. but I can't remember the size.

[jaysen71581]

I was just wondering because the dash speakers are so small it's like your getting no good sound out of them..

[theman53]

Yeah the 3.5" speaker no matter who makes it is not good in the dash. I am trying to stuff a 5.25" up in mine. A 4" normall used for a center channel with tweeters in the 3.5" dash hole would be a good deal IMHO.

[camboscams]

FWIW

I've got Memphis 3.5's in the front holes and concept audio 4x6's in the factory rear positions and a 12 inch sub in the back and it sounds great. As far as i'm concerned i don't think i would need speakers in the doors.

[R.O.R-2.0]

i have JL audio TR evolution 3.5s in the dash, and 4x6 TR evos in the rear, along with a JL Audio 13" sub

my stereo will rattle the fillings out of your head, and it still never drowns out the music and words coming from the small speakers.

if i were running the speakers on an amp, they would make your ears bleed.

(the speaker locations in the doors are for 4x6 speakers or something like that)

and no speaker is going to sound good without some decent power going to it. even if you have a $1k component speaker system installed, and not enough power to it, its not gonna sound much better than a $30 set of speakers.. you need power to get good bass reproduction..

[jaysen71581]

I use to be a car audio nut, i have 2 12 inch infinity Kappa Perfects subs and a memphis 500d amp, i was thinking of getting a pair of memphis 6x9's and the 3.5's, it pounded in my 07 gti, i have a 1000d memphis amp but it needs repaired.

[R.O.R-2.0]

another thing about speakers in the doors.. it just brings the virtual sound stage down, literally, it sounds like all the music is coming from lower in the car..

thats what i like about VWs, all the speakers are up high, so your legs dont have to be out of the way to hear your door speakers..

its kinda funny how VW rigged up the mk2/3 speakers to use the windshield as deflection.. sounds good still tho..

[maxfax]

What I found with speakers in the door (and dammit I don;t remember what size I used) is that it just made more rattles..   Being a God forsaken lepper (aka smoker) I run with the driver window cracked most of the time..  I suppose with new stripping it would have been okay, but with the window not fully up the darned thing rattled and drove me nuts...

[rabbitman]

My '80 parts rabbit has 4" speakers in the door.........I'd have to look again but I'm pretty sure they're 4".

All the rabbits have the cut out in the door for them but you'd have to punch the hole in the door card.

[R.O.R-2.0]

im pretty sure my grandpas caddy LX came with stock 4x6 speakers in the doors..

[jaysen71581]

Ok who has the car audio super cheap website hookup?