This to anyone who has fully installed a 4+ channel amp and actually wired each individual channel to each speaker. I just put about 8-9 hours into mine and I only got my passenger and rear passenger done. Sounds electrifying, but good lord! There is no way to run a wire to the passenger side speaker.....Unless I overlooked something. The rear passenger was a pain in the *** fishing that wire through the door jam.

Hopefully will finish sometime this weekend. Can't wait to see what all 4 speakers sound like. My truck is a mess, I'm tired and kinda aggravated I didn't finish all 4. I'm out.

Jake

 

I went 2 channel on mine cause when I had 4 channel i could bearly here the rears. Plus I bridged the amp for more power. It sounds pretty damn good, no complaints from passengers except volume...lol Good luck with the rest of the install.

 

Shouldn't take me more than a couple hours to finish. I ended up splicing into the passenger side speaker. I swear I looked at that damn door jam for at least an hour. Got my drill out and everything. I knew it was a bad idea so I put it down, took a deep break and found the wires that go to the pass. side speaker. Soooo glad I did. Probably have to do the same thing on the driver side. I imagine there is more crap on that side.

But, thank you for the positive reinforcement.

 

When I did mine I went to a wreckers and got 4 wire boots froma wrecked expo and made new holes, looks factory and no headaches.

 

I ran new wires to all 4 of my speakers, the boots arenot that easy to run wires through but not too hard. Get a coat hanger and straighten it out then shove it through the rubber in the middle of the boot and hook the other end to the wire and pull it through

 

Holy crap. Just finished. I had to hack into the drivers side speaker via the kick panel. I found the wires under the foot panel thingy once you open the door, disconnected them, turned my truck on and that drivers side speaker was still playing! I have no idea why. It looked like the speaker wires were coming or going from/to the rear of the truck. It was literally the weirdest thing. I'll include some pictures of the wires behind the speaker and where I cut them.
Wires behind speakers

Wires I found on the foot panel thingy

With these wires the speaker was still playing. Riddle me that Batman.

Jake

 

Would have been far easier and just as effective to use a harness adapter instead of hacking up your factory harness.

Brad

 

Wouldn't have mattered. I installed a 4ch amp and ran all new wire to the speakers.

 

would have mattered...... just run wires from your clearly marked adapter harness to your amp and then from the amp back to the clearly marked adapter harness. problem solved. just would have used the high inputs on the amp instead of the rca inputs.

 

I'm finished with it now, it's all too late. But my "problem" was fishing the wire through the door jam. If you have looked inside your door jam it's not just a rubber bushing. The rubber bushing is there, but if you look behind it, there is a connector and plug that interface between the inside of the door and the outside. I couldn't figure out how to run my speaker wire through the connector plug without drilling new holes.

I appreciate the rundown, but it's irrelevant now.

Jake

 

Now you know why installers charge so much $. It's a pain in the ***!

 

bingo!

 

It is definitely time-consuming, but totally worth the time to do it right and do it yourself. You will feel much better accomplishing it yourself and you''ll learn a lot. If you knew how much time I have spent toying with my sound system in this truck over the years, you would think I am insane.

 

Yup when people ask about it, and you get to say you did it all is a lot greater of a feeling instead of saying a shop did it. And what msall said too about the amount of time, I've put countless days of work into getting everything the way I like it and I'm not even close to done.

At least you picked the right time of the year to do it ha, I remember my first time ever doing an install when I was like 14 on my dads truck it was probably the worst way to ever first experience, working constantly inside a truck when it's like 105 outside is no fun at all haha.

 

hahah yeah, back in August I was putting long tube headers on my truck in Texas. Good lord that was a bad idea. I always carried around a towel to wipe my face every 2 nanoseconds.