Has anyone here installed components in the 5th gen?
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I put 6.5" MB Quart 2-way components in my previous 02.
The door speakers are actually 6x9s. I created an MDF spacer in the shape of the factory speaker, which has enough space to mount both the 6.5" and tweeter. The crossover was mounted in that little hollow space next to the interior door handle.
I drove the components with an amp, and let the head-unit drive the factory dash tweeters (I left it alone). It worked fine. Later, I hooked up the dash tweeters to the amp too (parallel to the door speakers), but it didn't make a big difference (you also lose the ability to adjust the dash tweeter volume relative to your door speakers this way, but in my case, it was fairly balanced).
The door speakers are actually 6x9s. I created an MDF spacer in the shape of the factory speaker, which has enough space to mount both the 6.5" and tweeter. The crossover was mounted in that little hollow space next to the interior door handle.
I drove the components with an amp, and let the head-unit drive the factory dash tweeters (I left it alone). It worked fine. Later, I hooked up the dash tweeters to the amp too (parallel to the door speakers), but it didn't make a big difference (you also lose the ability to adjust the dash tweeter volume relative to your door speakers this way, but in my case, it was fairly balanced).
I've done this in my Gen4.
The speakers in the Gen5 are as mention 6x9 in the doors.
Stock JBL speakers have a treble/mid high range frequency blocker in the front door speakers. It makes all mid/high range to the factory squawkers in the dash for better sound imaging. Dash speakers has a bass filter. If you also have the stock JBL, you can reuse the 6X9 speaker brackets by removing the speaker and removing the frequency blocker. I would consider reusing the frequency blocker if your not upgrading/bypassing the factory JBL amp AND upgrading with a 2 ohm speaker. If not, discard both and use what you want to use for this.
I'm positive the factory setup has it running in parallel. If your going to run tweeters and components, you're going to have to run it or somehow chop the factory wiring instead of running your own wires.
I'm not sure how well actual tweeters will do in the stock position due to it facing upwards toward the glass. The Gen4 was easier to do this since the tweeters were already in ideal place IMO. I ended up amping everything in my Gen4 and there was a noticeable difference even with the factory tweeters running with a pioneer crossover. Need to replace my 4channel amp with a 5channel one. My main goal was going to maintain the OEM look as much as possible.
Word of advice - if you are going with components, you will need an decent amp. With this much power, you would really really want to consider sound deadening. The Gen5s doors are large and doesn't have half the material in the doors like the Gen4's. If you want any good sound to come out from better speakers, focus on sound deadening first.
https://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/
The speakers in the Gen5 are as mention 6x9 in the doors.
Stock JBL speakers have a treble/mid high range frequency blocker in the front door speakers. It makes all mid/high range to the factory squawkers in the dash for better sound imaging. Dash speakers has a bass filter. If you also have the stock JBL, you can reuse the 6X9 speaker brackets by removing the speaker and removing the frequency blocker. I would consider reusing the frequency blocker if your not upgrading/bypassing the factory JBL amp AND upgrading with a 2 ohm speaker. If not, discard both and use what you want to use for this.
I'm positive the factory setup has it running in parallel. If your going to run tweeters and components, you're going to have to run it or somehow chop the factory wiring instead of running your own wires.
I'm not sure how well actual tweeters will do in the stock position due to it facing upwards toward the glass. The Gen4 was easier to do this since the tweeters were already in ideal place IMO. I ended up amping everything in my Gen4 and there was a noticeable difference even with the factory tweeters running with a pioneer crossover. Need to replace my 4channel amp with a 5channel one. My main goal was going to maintain the OEM look as much as possible.
Word of advice - if you are going with components, you will need an decent amp. With this much power, you would really really want to consider sound deadening. The Gen5s doors are large and doesn't have half the material in the doors like the Gen4's. If you want any good sound to come out from better speakers, focus on sound deadening first.
https://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/
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