Dash/ front speaker removal- broken speaker mag / impedance

[steve]

Robert: You are correct. I found that the front dash speakers are 8 ohms and wired directly to the radio. The front door speakers are 4 ohm and are also wired directly to the radio.

Here's the tricky part: The Rear door speakers and the rear deck speakers are both 8 Ohms and they are wired in parallel as you have warned against.

The Crutchfield Rep said that replacing a 8 Ohm with a 4 Ohm speaker when wired directly would be OK. He said that so long as the amplifyer saw at least 4 ohms or greater things would be alright.

THIS DOES NOT HOWEVER APPLY TO MY REAR SPEAKERS WHICH ARE WIRED IN PARALLEL. If I replace both of the 8's with 4 ohm speakers the radio will see only 2 Ohms which I feel, and as you have pointed out, will cause the amp to overheat and burnout eventually.

I have already replaced my amplifier chips in my radio once already and do not want to have to do it again.

SO, what is a fella to do?? Anyone have a source for 8 Ohm car audio speakers??

I am going to call the same rep at Crutchfield on this parallel wiring situation and see what he has to say for himself.

Anyone??

S

[MadeInJapan]

For those needing speaker replacements, look on eBay. I see them all the time for our cars. Also, if you want to upgrade, Crutchfield.com is very good. You may want to go to their site, get their toll free number so you can actually talk to someone about options. My understanding is that they know about the ohm differences in our systems.