[Cheddle]

Hey

jsut woundering if any one knows how to remove the dash in a VL, the part that holds those little 4 inch speakers...

I want to replace them but i cant find a way to get at them.

any one out there got any experience in this area?

[TAS-VK]

Yeah mate easy as

You have to pull the air vents out on each side and you'll find 2 screws holding them to the dash undo them and pull the air vint thingy out and the cover should come off with ease.
Un screw the 4 screws holding the speakers in and unplug them then remove.

I'm sure thats how i did it.

[VL_wagon]

yeh m8 that how u do it,i did it in mi wagon.....its quite easy.getting the vents out is about as hard as it gets


stevo

[Cheddle]

thanks yeah i wasnt sure wether or not to remove them

still need to get some 6 inch raisers in the door

plan is to have 6 inch plus 4 inch 2-ways, 6 inches doing 100 hz to maybe 9000 hz then have the 4 inchers running the 9000 hz plus range... going to make the filters my self at school

[VLHERO]

VL dashes are pretty easy once you get to know them. Ive had mine in and out 3 times now

[Cheddle]

lol yeah

im sure ill get to know mine well 2

jsut tought id update

i used a very small screwdriver attaced to a cheepo pair of pliers to get the awkardly placed screws out and have put one pioneer 2-way speaker in. didnt have anoy real problems except with the screws. the magnet fitted in, jaycars appatently dont fit in there so im lucky

going to do the other when ive got my energy... so tired

the wiring in them is hell queer

3 wires go to the speaker (blue, blue, yellow) they then lead to an in dash adaptor thing, that then makes the yellow (positvie) a grey wire and then makes the 2 blues differet shades of blue... im to scared to look at the other side hehe

ill fill u guys in later and might but a baisc wire colour guide on

[SATAN]

cool wondered this myself

any pics as u go along?

[VLHERO]

Wouldve been easier to just take the whole dashpad out mate. 3 screws above the glovebox, one next to the cluster, and one in the centre below the screen and out she comes!!

[Cheddle]

ok

today i got the speakers out with a small scrwdriver

wasnt the easiest way but it worked

put the pioneer speakers in and wired them up to the existing wiring in the dash, bad idea...

the way the stock speakers are set up is the queerest thing, they onoly use 3 wires for 2 speakers... its some kind of strange series... im baffled

but, all i did was hooked up the frount 2 positives and one of the negatives and its fine... not to sure how much my head unit will apreciate me for it but it seems to go ok.

any one else know exactly what wire does what and... where the hell can i find the ignition 12 v wire in behind the ash try/headunit??

[NAtunedRB30]

oooooh, so thats how you did it, i was still scratching my head about those speakers, i was like like "wtf?" did you have anything in the parcel shelf or are those holes just for fun?

[HR1966]

To reply to a thread from a year ago, lol, that speaker wire arrangement is known as common earth. Is a prick of a setup and you're far better off (for your speakers, unit and ears) to run new wires.

But, chances are this car is sold or something now soe it doesn't really matter...

[NAtunedRB30]

yeah i own the car cheddle was talking about and i did set up new wires.

[VLHERO]

NAtunedRB30, on Aug 24 2007, 09:54 PM, said:

yeah i own the car cheddle was talking about and i did set up new wires.

So you'd be the one that went flying past about 4 inches away from me as I was walking up Nelson Rd last week. Slow down you f**king maniac