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Help with wiring speakers?

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#1 ·
2012 MKVI SE 2.5l

rear passenger side speaker is blown and I need to replace it, do I need to remove the whole door panel or can I remove the speaker grille alone?

I have a small 8" sub I want to install in my trunk, not looking to rattle my windows or anything just want a slight boost in bass. Can I just splice it into the existing rear speaker, or would I need to run directly to head unit or would I need an aftermarket amp?

thanks for the help
 
#2 ·
For your rear door speaker, the door panel needs to come off.

Do you have an aftermarket head unit? If so, I would just run the RCA's and remote wire from there.

If not, you can use a converter that splices into the speaker wires and some amps have that option as well. IMO i think the sub sounds better coming from the head unit.
 
#3 ·
Must remove the door panel to replace the speaker, there are videos
on YouTube on how to do it. Search for "VW MK6 door panel removal"
or wording to that effect.

If you have rear door speakers, you can splice in each side, and run
back to an amplifier, with a LPF setting. If you happen to have rear
deck speakers, which neither of my 2013s ("S" and TDI Premium) have,
you can splice in there. With my charger, I bought a HI/LO Adapter,
spliced into the factory speaker outputs, and ran my RCA cables to
the trunk for the AMPs. The Hi/LO I bought has front and rear inputs,
with front and rear RCA outputs. The other thing is getting power back
to the trunk, so you're running wires from the front to back anyway,
may as well tap the factory speaker outputs and get them back
there too. Run the power wire opposite side of the audio wires.



I got the factory trunk-deck mounted sub, it's excellent... You can get one
of those and wire it with a small amplifier.
 
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