Im curious, for those of you running compnent speakers in your doors, where are you putting the passive xovers?

 

The shop that installed mine put them inside the door with double sided tape and silicone. They checked the area directly inside the speaker opening on the door and found that no water gets in there prior to mounting them. This mnakes the wiring very easy since it is near the speaker.
Do not screw into that panel though, it is the inside of the outter door skin.

 

Hmm, so they are on the outer door panel? And the wires dont get in the way of the window or anything?

 

Nope, not in the way at all.

 

Mine are in the same place that Slapshot mentioned.
I put mine in with a piece of 'Industrial Velcro' that is about 2" x 4" and then I duct taped the heavyweight plastic bag that the crossover came in over the top and front of the crossover to protect it in case any water got in there. It works great and is still removeable should I need to pull it out of the door.

Mike

 

Reasons why doors are a bad place for crossovers:
- Massive amounts of physical shock (unless you crawl in through the window)
- Moisture exposure
- Heat (especially for you black L owners)
- Total pain in the *** to adjust settings on the xover (if yours has any)

Advantages:
- Less wire to run
- Dont have to get creative in finding a place to install them in the cab

All that vibration can cause crimped terminals or wires to come loose. Its not so much a problem of breaking the actual crossover. Moisture is bad for the obvious reasons. Heat changes the properties of most of the crossovers components and decreases lifespan. Not a huge deal but its there on paper. If your crossover has slope adjustment, tweeter attenuation, midrange attenuation, or a visible tweeter protection circuit it becomes a real pain to have to pop off the door panel and make adjustments. For most people these are set and forget settings.

 

I guess im not so concerned with the front doors, plenty of under dash places to tuck them but for the back doors there sure isnt much room.

 

there's tons of space for almost any cross over other than the ones for a Boston pro series 3 way cross over

 

screwed mine to my sub box.. I'm running my components off a amp any how.
8" subs in the doors, 5 1/4 in the kicks and 1" tweet in the kicks.