Premium tweeters out of an '01 S80...these are lovely!

[mrbrian200]

Was in the pick and pull over the holiday weekend (40% off!) scouting for some misc. interior plastic bits that were broke or missing on my car and some clean used conduit for a couple places under the hood. Score on everything except a LH front floor mat.

Came across a S80 in the yard which somebody had taken the front door window glass on both sides. The full dome textile door tweeters were just hanging by the wires calling out 'I look like high end sh-- you'd pay big bucks for aftermarket...buy me!'
At 40% off I decided I had nothing to lose.

Popped right into the door panels on my '06 S60 to replace the mylar cone tweeters which to me sound ringy, and colored, and awful which I had planned to address someday soon. My S60 was equipped with the HU650 running off it's internal amp and lower spec speakers.

Those textile dome tweeters out of the premium sound equipped S80 sound just lovely.

Their output is a little high but I will fix that with a couple fixed audio grade resistors to bring them down a little. Note, the OE integrated high pass filter (a cheapo bi-polar electrolytic cap) is bypassed/removed and replaced by a more proper 2nd order HP filter utilizing polyfilm caps further down in the harness. This was done prior in an attempt to clean up the mylar cone tweeters originally equipped. Other main door and deck speakers have already been addressed.

Sounds pretty darn good now. Just need a little more amp-power and a way to play mp3s off a usb stick. I'll get to those eventually.

[mrbrian200]

Back at the PnP over the weekend after an OE washer pump and about a foot of the wiring loom to repair the harness where a PO installed an aftermarket pump and hacked into the wires. The aftermarket pump pooped last week.

Anyway- the '06 S60 I pulled the pump from also had the door panels removed. It was equipped with the premium sound HU850+external amp. The door speakers will still on it. Oh my: those main door speakers on that also look like high end sh-- you'd pay big bucks in the aftermarket ---Carbon/Kevlar -- Being an audiophile this sort of thing really catches my eye. I might have to go back for those. I never did much with my rear door speakers aside from a LF blocking cap to alleviate bass distortion.

Back to the washer pump...
Ok people. You know if you're going to do that (break the wire insulation on an exterior circuit) you have to solder the wires together and seal it up with silicone or epoxy. A few wraps of black tape does NOT keep the moisture/road salt out, which works it's way and wicks up into the wire which subsequently rots inside the insulation somewhere up in the harness. I had to chop almost eight inches up until I got clean copper to work with. Anyway Success on all that it's fixed for good this time, and I know better than to pour plain water into the reservoir. I replaced the headlamp/high pressure pump when I bought the car - the one that was on it didn't work, was cracked and bulged, clearly freeze damage where a PO put water into it and it froze. The windshield pump would have been taken out at the same time which somebody replaced...half baked repair... it eventually stopped working again.