Adding door speakers

McTyke · Post by **McTyke** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:40 am

Just bought some OE speakers to put in the doors behind the grills that are already there. My car has the basic 6 speaker setup so planning to bang these in and wire up to tweeter. However, never seen a connector like this before. Seems to have total of 4 pins where I would only expect to see 2. Is an adaptor available or is it possible to use single spade clips in some combination?
Thanks

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bigwinn · Post by **bigwinn** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:21 am

Morning

Best route is as you said come off the tweeters as they have full feed

The connectors you are looking at I think would need looms for the bigger speaker set up- so if I were you I'd solder or spade connect onto those?

Do the speakers have 3 or 4 connecting lugs/screw holes?

McTyke · Post by **McTyke** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:22 am

Hi bigwinn
The speakers have 3 screw holes so should fit straight in. It's what appears to be 4 metal terminals that's throwing me. Normally would expect 2 - neg and positive.

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bigwinn · Post by **bigwinn** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:24 am

May be worth looking at the wiring diagrams to determine whats pos and neg? It will also show you if the other terminal block is a pathway off to another speaker?

McTyke · Post by **McTyke** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:02 am

Very good point.

spazmochad · Post by **spazmochad** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:13 pm

I put an inducer in series with my door speakers as the stock sound was a bit ssssssibilant

Pbondar · Post by **Pbondar** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:07 pm

The pins are standard BMW speaker connectors..one side is your audio feed in..the other side is audio out to a tweeter..

ie parallel connections not serial..assumes that your tweeter does not need a crossover or you handle that as part of the circuit between the mid range speaker you have and the tweeter..

McTyke · Post by **McTyke** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:34 pm

Thanks folks. I'll have a crack this weekend if it ever stops raining. See if I get some sound from them or a bang and smell of burning plastic

George7 · Post by **George7** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:28 pm

All
What do you mean by an 'inducer'? Do you have details and where you purchased them. Also could you describe how you installed them and wiring detail please
George

McTyke · Post by **McTyke** » Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:33 pm

Easy enough - they sound great. Just wired to tweeter. Nice up-grade for £20

George7 · Post by **George7** » Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:10 pm

Hi all
I found wiring for the door speakers in the loom, within the door. I couldn't trace them, but cut them out of the loom, connected to the tweeter wires via scotchlioks making use of the connectors on the loom to plug into the door speaker connections, shown on the above pictures. I didn't know which one to plug into but chose one and it worked. Top tip, I always squeeze the scotchloks with pliers to ensure they make good connections after placing wires in them! Hope this all makes sense!!!
George

robertboeke · Post by **robertboeke** » Fri May 20, 2022 3:17 pm

McTyke wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:33 pm Easy enough - they sound great. Just wired to tweeter. Nice up-grade for £20

I'm doing the same upgrade. Just wondering, how did you connect to the bmw speaker plugs in the end?

George7 · Post by **George7** » Fri May 20, 2022 3:39 pm

AS I said, I found two speaker wires in the door loom, with plugs on, that would normally plug into the mid range speakers, if you have a Hi-Fi or 10 speaker system, option with amplifier. I undid some of the tape, that the loom is compiled with to expose as much cable as I could, 8-10" if I remember. Then cut these wires off and scotch locked them in to the tweeter cables. Once the mid range were installed, plugged the spliced cables, with BMW speaker plugs on them, into the mid range connections on the back of the speakers. Got a much better sound with mid range front and rear.

robertboeke · Post by **robertboeke** » Fri May 20, 2022 3:51 pm

Thanks for that. Hopefully I'll find the same

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