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You should always find out what happened to a defective driver before replacing it or else this most likely will happen again. Sounds to me like your factory amp is the problem. Use a multimeter to see what readings your factory sub gives.
Looks like you are replacing a single voice coil driver with a dual voice coil unit.
You're basically running your 8 cylinder engine on 4 cylinders right now.
You can either hook up both coils in parallel, or in series. Your goal being to match the impedance of the original speaker. In parallel will effectively halve the impedance of each driver; in series will double it (not exact, but close enough).
Does it have any markings on it? Someone else here may know the factory specs of that driver and be able to chime in.
Safest guess is is that the original is 4ohms (the old "standard" in car audio), so you'll want to wire both voice coils in series to get ~4ohms.
You're basically running your 8 cylinder engine on 4 cylinders right now.
You can either hook up both coils in parallel, or in series. Your goal being to match the impedance of the original speaker. In parallel will effectively halve the impedance of each driver; in series will double it (not exact, but close enough).
Does it have any markings on it? Someone else here may know the factory specs of that driver and be able to chime in.
Safest guess is is that the original is 4ohms (the old "standard" in car audio), so you'll want to wire both voice coils in series to get ~4ohms.
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