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Car Speaker Connection Question

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WobbleWobble

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I have a 2002 Honda Accord Sedan in which I'm replacing the front and rear speakers.

After taking apart the door (which is annoying to install speakers...) I notice that the stock speakers had a connection harness on them. Should I cut the harness off and crimp on a new connector or buy a harness adaptor? And what do you guys usually do? I'd like to cut costs and harnesses don't look cheap for what they are.

What are your thoughts?
 
Cut the wires, leave enough on both ends to re-attach the factory speaker harness if you ever go back to stock. (IE when you sell the car)
 
Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I have a 2002 Honda Accord Sedan in which I'm replacing the front and rear speakers.

After taking apart the door (which is annoying to install speakers...) I notice that the stock speakers had a connection harness on them. Should I cut the harness off and crimp on a new connector or buy a harness adaptor? And what do you guys usually do? I'd like to cut costs and harnesses don't look cheap for what they are.

What are your thoughts?
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You can cut off the harness and save it incase you want to switch back to stock to sell it. If you wanted to do it right you would rewire it, but that takes ALOT of work. Depends how well you want to do it. It will work with the old wires fine though. I rewired mine on my old car but i totaled it last week so i will have alot of work to do in my new car when i get it.
 
I don't like doing halfass job.. if I were to replace the stock speakers, I do it right the first time around and replace the stock wires as well.
 
Originally posted by: Phocas

You can cut off the harness and save it incase you want to switch back to stock to sell it. If you wanted to do it right you would rewire it, but that takes ALOT of work. Depends how well you want to do it. It will work with the old wires fine though. I rewired mine on my old car but i totaled it last week so i will have alot of work to do in my new car when i get it.
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Would there be any worth while advantages of rewiring? I'm a newbie at this stuff and I had a hard enough time getting the door open!
 
What do the harnesses look like? Can you take a pic? I've never seen harnesses for the speakers themselves. Usually they just have spade terminals on the speaker with little slip on clips on the wires, but they must have changed them since my 91 was built. I have a feeling Honda speaker harnesses would not be available aftermarket so you'd have to buy it from a dealer, aka expensive. Are the harnesses just soldered to the speaker terminals? Can you heat up the solder and pull them off and reuse them?
 
Unless you're putting a bigger amp in for the four speakers in the car, don't bother rewiring them. The factory wiring is fine for the size amp in the factory deck.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
What do the harnesses look like? Can you take a pic? I've never seen harnesses for the speakers themselves. Usually they just have spade terminals on the speaker with little slip on clips on the wires, but they must have changed them since my 91 was built. I have a feeling Honda speaker harnesses would not be available aftermarket so you'd have to buy it from a dealer, aka expensive. Are the harnesses just soldered to the speaker terminals? Can you heat up the solder and pull them off and reuse them?
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I'm at work right now so I can't take a pic, but I can later on. It looks like the harness is not easily removable and really doesn't look like I take it and install it onto the new speakers.

Replacing the speakers on my old 89 Accord was a lot easier. It had the spades like connection and I only had to remove the speaker panel, rather than the door to get to the speaker.
 
Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
Originally posted by: Phocas

You can cut off the harness and save it incase you want to switch back to stock to sell it. If you wanted to do it right you would rewire it, but that takes ALOT of work. Depends how well you want to do it. It will work with the old wires fine though. I rewired mine on my old car but i totaled it last week so i will have alot of work to do in my new car when i get it.
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Would there be any worth while advantages of rewiring? I'm a newbie at this stuff and I had a hard enough time getting the door open!
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If your a newb and just getting the door off was a PITA then dont worry about it. If you were doing this to replace them with expensive component speakers then i would say yes.....
 
Would it be worthwhile buying an amp and not using a sub but using the stock deck?

BTW, the new speakers I'm installing are 6.5" 200W Pioneers and 6x9" 120W Alpines.

Edit: Scrap that question. I don't believe the stock decks have RCA out.
 
You don't need rca's from the deck to run an amp. Just get a speaker level converter. Scosche makes a decent one that works well and they sell them at Walmart I think. Just a little box with terminals on one side, and you stick the speaker line into the slot and tighten a little screw down on each. On the other side are corresponding RCA's for each line in. The Scosche one will do four channels. I'm not sure how good it will sound for your main speakers, but it was good enough for sending the signal to my amp to run my sub when I still had my factory deck. Here's what it looks like. I actually bought it from sound domain before I found out they sell them at Wal Mart for 20 bucks.

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