How many people use their stock car speakers wires to run the front speakers?

[Bad_dude 10+ year member]

I am having trouble running new speaker cables to my front door.

I have a 1990 Honda Accord LX, 4 doors, 4 speed automatic.

I have the Alpine components SPS600C in the front and Coaxial SPS17C2 in the rear deck. Running off the JVC head unit with 20W RMS each channel, it sounds clear and great. However, I want a little, not a lot, more bump and volume in the speakers, so I am going to hook up a used old school 4 channel JBL Model GTQ 240. It's about 45-50W RMS each channel. I would think the stock speaker cable to my front doors are 22AWG.

How many people are using their amp connecting to the car stock speaker cables? I don't think the SQ would be noticeably different to the human ears, at least mine.

Any opinion or advice on this matter? Right now, I want to mount the amp in the back of my seat and run 14 gauge cables to the back of the head unit and tap into the stock speaker cables from there to my doors.

Thanks for any input.

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[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

no one

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

what was the question again?

 

[bustaplz 10+ year member]

I am having trouble running new speaker cables to my front door.I have a 1990 Honda Accord LX, 4 doors, 4 speed automatic.

I have the Alpine components SPS600C in the front and Coaxial SPS17C2 in the rear deck. Running off the JVC head unit with 20W RMS each channel, it sounds clear and great. However, I want a little, not a lot, more bump and volume in the speakers, so I am going to hook up a used old school 4 channel JBL Model GTQ 240. It's about 45-50W RMS each channel. I would think the stock speaker cable to my front doors are 22AWG.

How many people are using their amp connecting to the car stock speaker cables? I don't think the SQ would be noticeably different to the human ears, at least mine.

Any opinion or advice on this matter? Right now, I want to mount the amp in the back of my seat and run 14 gauge cables to the back of the head unit and tap into the stock speaker cables from there to my doors.

Thanks for any input.

Could you use the stock speaker wire to pull better wire?

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

that's simple install. jump the wires behind the head unit and you just have to run around 8ft of speaker wire from the back deck. done. i've done this for up to 100 watts per speakers.

 

[Xprime4 10+ year member]

I wouldn't care if your under 100watt per channel. I run 12awg to my doors because i'm bridging my amp = lot of power.

try this

http://www.bcae1.com/images/swfs/speakerwireselectorassistant.swf

if you only loose few watts then don't care

 

[blackdragonaudi 10+ year member]

I do I dont want to mess up any of the wiring in the door panels so I just tap into the factory speaker wire in the rear for the head unit and run the new wire to the amp.

 

[quins90lac 10+ year member]

i need to redo mine and stop being lazy all i got is the factory 18-20 awg speaker wire

 

[joeboxer5876 10+ year member]

you will probably only lose a little power using that wire with only 50 watts. i think you would be ok. there will be no SQ difference at all! personally 22 wire is tweeter wire though

 

[Bad_dude 10+ year member]

Thanks for all of the inputs. I think I am going to run new wires to the back of the head unit and tap into the stock wire from there.

 

[undeadxsunshine 10+ year member]

I'm OCD about some things, so I ran new speaker cable (16g i think). Mine was a ***** to fish to the doors. I ended up being able to do it using a metal hanger.

 

[WOT]

Dont "tap" into the factory wiring. Run new wiring from the deck to the speakers, through the door gronmets and connect directly to speakers. Do it right the first time, it doesnt take long nor is it hard

30 foot spool of 14 gauge is 10 bucks

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Dont "tap" into the factory wiring. Run new wiring from the deck to the speakers, through the door gronmets and connect directly to speakers. Do it right the first time, it doesnt take long nor is it hard
30 foot spool of 14 gauge is 10 bucks

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[PSturmer 10+ year member]

Dont "tap" into the factory wiring. Run new wiring from the deck to the speakers, through the door gronmets and connect directly to speakers. Do it right the first time, it doesnt take long nor is it hard
30 foot spool of 14 gauge is 10 bucks

I disagree. Running wire from the rear amplifier to the deck is sufficient in most cases. Even though the stock wiring is small, it will see no more than 5 amps on a 100 watts.

 

[WrenchGuy 10+ year member]

Stock wire has a lower strand count no biggie.

Thats the only difference I see in it when I look at it. I guess.