Car audio question...?

Question

Hiya!

I've just got my first car and would like to kit it up with some decent speakers, having already got some pretty good speakers in the front i decided to get some in the back. After fishing around for a while I decided on these speakers and this amplifier.

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/4787.html

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/2470.html

What i was wondering is do i need a wiring kit of any kind to set it up, bearing in mind their is already two basic speakers in the back of my 2002 Vauxhall Corsa.

Thanks for your help

Trent

Answer 1

You will need 8ft of 4 gauge wire (Pstv)(red) 3ft black 4gauge wire (Grnd)  and a 5ft peice of remote wire (Blue wire regular wire)   and tht should be it

Answer 2

I'm not sure how big of a car the Corsa is, but I can assure you unless it's tiny your going to need more than 8ft of wire. As for ground, you don't need 3ft you need to have as short a ground as you can. 3ft can be fine, so can 10ft just make sure the power an ground wire are of the same size. You can buy a standard wiring kit, I'd get a 4 gauge kit that way if later you add a sub you won't have to rewire your car. The kits are fairly cheap, I'd go with knukoncepts. They are not super expensive and work well, i've been running knu wire in my ranger for a few years now.

As for the speakers and amp, I'm not in much of a position to   comment as I've never heard of this company.

You might even want to skip getting back speakers, back speakers are really just fill. I took the back speakers out of my ranger, you don't need them with properly aligned front speakers. A small sub would fill in the bottom end, really make your music come alive. The common misconception is subs are just boom, a properly installed and tuned sub will bring your music to life.

Another thing on grounds, make sure you have a good connection. Strip all paint away from your grounding point, also check the connection with a multimeter. Test from the negative post on the battery to your grounding point, your looking for resistance of under 1Ohm the lower the better.

Answer 3

IF you plan to buy the amp yes you will have to get a kit. I would recommend any where form 0 guage to 4 guage for power wire get the thicker the most power you will have to measure you car length in order to detemine how much power you will need.. Also a ground wire 3 ft is what is recommended so just s***w it in a seatbelt hole. Then remote wire from the radio to the amp is the length that you will need. One other recommendation is get a 4channel amp and go ahead and buy the front speakers. You dont want to just have great sounding speakers for the backseat riders dont leave the passanger out of the mix do it all. By the way great looking speakers I have never seen those kind of car speakers. Just becareful make sure those will fit most cars have circular shape speakers, you will may be have to do some modifications in order to get those in.