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I need help understanding car speakers. I own a corsa b and have currently only got the original factory fitted door speakers

What i need to know is how to change the door speakers, i heard that adapters or summin will be required. Also what makes a good door speaker im willing to spend around £70 on them but if i must go higher then i can easily get the money together. Will i need to change the wires? Do i need to cut the door panel? i literally have no knowlege what so ever and anything will help please. I will also want some parcel shelf speakers in the near future too, but i would like to get the door ones out of the way. Since my window fell out and will need to take the door apart to fix so i thought why not kill two birds with one stone

Hi

This should help with your door speaker porblems. http://forums.corsa-b.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=11176

hi thanks that has been helpful but i still have some questions

my m8 said summin about an amp but i thought they were only needed for subs
after reading that thread from the link he mentioned that the window will hit the magnets, how do i get around that?

right, i think wot ur mate means is u can amp your speakers, but tbh there really is no need.

as for the windows hitting the magnets thats a simple one. pop down to halfords and buy sum corsa b speaker adapters . they screw straight on and then u screw ur speakers to them. and problem sorted!

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165626

kk iv just ordered some on ebay im almost getting there with all this research anyway all i really ask for is help picking some decent speakers i want to spend about £70 max on front door speakers any reccomendations? what makes should i touch? and what makes a speaker good?

it would probably make sense to state my cd player is a JVC KD-R601 and the manual states that it is reccomended to connect speakers with a maximum power of more than 50W (both rear and front, with an impedance of 4-8ohms). then it states if the maximum power is less than 50 W change 'AMP GAIN' setting to prevent the speakers from getting dammaged (the manual tells me how to do this if needed).

right iv narrowed down my search to want 17cm coaxial speakers budget £70ish any reccomendations please my m8 linked me to here http://www.caraudiocentre.co.uk/ just pick some and comment back please

the max size on the front speakers is 13cm, or you can find 17cm addapters

thankyou for the reply but i have gathered all the information i need to know all i want now is some reccomendations on what to buy 17cm co-axial speakers

well since no one is making any reccomendations i have decided upon these speakers http://www.bassjunkies.com/audio/pioneer-ts-e1702is just befor i make the purchase has anyone got anything to say?

Are you after powerfull speakers for the best sound cause I just thinking they are 280w max... I got fli 6" speakers with 231w max and only cost 28 quid giving more to spend or rear 6x9s and sub.. I faded sound more throu my rears so
fronts don't really need to be hugly powerfull... Depends what ya going for are you hoping to show car or just summat to listen to ya tunes throu

just summin for tunes im still unsure of how all this wattage stuff works i almsot bought those speakers but im still needing to understand will they be good with my head unit as i dont want something that will be overkill when i could probably get a cheaper one

Right hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong but the higher the RMS and The sensitivity the better the speakers are.. But if your car stereo only kicks out 50w then if your not amping your speakers there shudnt be a lot of differnce between 280w speakers or 200w speakers... I might be wrong so plz don't take my word for it.. All I saying is I use my speakers for just basic tunes I got fli a throu the car front 6" 230w and rear 6x9 280w ( I think) the whole setup cost
me just over 65 quid so cheaper than your front speakers an fli is a decent make is fli is made
by vibe who are leaders in speakers manufacturing..

yea i wasn't going to amp them im reallly only after front ones now and back ones in two weeks so anything around 200w would be ok because the head unit is only sending out 50W is that what you are trying to say?

The higher the rms the better the speakers.. But again if it just for tunes ( I chose to save some cash and still have a better than standard system).. It's all about preference mate.. I can only tell ya what I know, I got some of the things about wrong my front speakers only 210w and rears 375w, I have my bass turned up and I can turn the stereo fully up and the only distortion I get it where the speakers are vibrating the door skin and the parcel shelf... If you unsure go to your local car audio dealers and talk to them... They can show you lots of diff equipment and suggest whY the best for you car and your sound type... Out of interest were ya from