I have an '03 4 door. Would upgraging my hu have better sound than the stock one using the stock speakers? or should i use the stock hu and replace the speakers? i know i will need an anteana adapter and the wiring harness. how do the front dash speakers hook up? just hook into the front door speakers? Will i lose my tach? i heard you will. also i will lose the auto volume feature right? can u install one of the larger hu like the stock one?

 

new head unit. Always upgrade the brains of your "system" first. Cant garantee it will make your stock speakers sound better (since it is possible they could be damaged), but it is the best starting point.

 

Hmm, lets see, how to attack this.
1.) (Should I upgrade the HU or speakers?) Upgrading a HU will improve sound, but then again, so will speakers. If you're going to upgrade one, just upgrade both. Its like doing an intake and exahust, whats the point of just doing one right?
2.) (How do the dash speakers hook up?) Um, I'm not sure what this question means, but the speakers are just the standard positive and negative wires.
3.) (Will I lose my tach?) I have no idea on this one...
4.) (WIll I lose the auto volume feature?) Yes, you will. That is the one thing I miss about my stock stereo.
5.) (Can you install a larger HU?) This is tricky business. In short, yes, you can, but its a bit of a run around. I have a single din and it looks fine.

So there ya go. Oh, and not to sound like a broken record, but theres a lot of good information on this site if you look for it.

 

on hooking up the dash speakers....do you just hook the two left front speakers together and the two front right speakers? car has 6 speakers and hu only has output for 4. btw i did do searches and the search feature on this forum is not very good.

 

Searching on here takes time, I'd say that ya, the front dash speakers are wired up to the front speakers. They act as tweeters because they have a high-pass filter on it, only putting out higher frequencies (treble instead of bass.) I have my sub in my truck putting all the bass out and it sounds great, all I did was the HU and left the stock speakers in. Mind you it was an expensive deck.

 

go for a new head unit then speakers.

 

anybody know how many watts per channel the stock radio is and at what ohms?

 

what about how many ohms the dash speaker, front speakers and the rear speakers are? are the front dash and front door only half the ohms the rear speakers and are they run in series?