I know what your going to say.
oh boy. i kinda got myself into an unpleasant situation. i bought new aftermarket stereo. Not being very brilliant I found diagrams for both old plaunkput stereo and new pioneer deh-1300mp and decided to cut few wires and connect them to the new stereo. Ofcourse I didnt do much research until it was too late. Kinda screwed myself.
Since its too late to fix it, my other solution is to get new speakers and rewire everything together. Could someone tell me if that is an extreme task? Could it be done under $200 using Polk speakers? Is there a diy wiring online?
anything and everything would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance

 

You could probably to it for under $200 if you use the existing speaker wire thats running to the radio . You are more than likely going to run into problems matching the speaker sizes though. Youtube has a few videos that may help if you look for them. Sorry i cant be more help, your kinda screwed

 

Do you mean that you are interested in running new wire to (new) speakers? This is certainly possible, and not too bad IMO - my entire audio system is rewired and amplified (sub also). The hardest part about this sort of job is getting the plastic trim off, 'cuz you wouldn't want to break it!

 

how long did it take you total? and how much did you end up investing?

 

My whole system probably cost me $700 in parts/hardware/wiring, which is on the cheaper end no doubt. The whole installation was spread over various phases so I couldn't say how long I spent, but if I were to remake my ENTIRE system from a stock car it would probably take 25ish hours. This includes making brackets, sub box, and everything required for the install.

First I started with a Kenwood head unit from Crutchfield with the necessary adapters. Couple months later I replaced the speakers, using the factory wiring and rear speaker amplifier. Several weeks after that I added in the sub+amp and wiring. Lastly about 6 months later I laid all new speaker wire for the front/rear speakers, and power wires for a trunk-mounted speaker amplifier. All the signal and speaker wires run through the passenger side of the car, and power wires are on the driver side.

 

It constantly amazes me that people will take the wire cutters to a bose stereo system in any car, and try to replace it with a 200 dollar head unit and expect it to sound better than the factory system. The previous hack owner of my sons A4 did that with a 75 dollar panasonic head unit that you had to actually turn off when you got out of the car, and it lost all of the staion memories everytime because he didn't bother running pattery power to the unit, yet he cut every wire going to the amplifier from the original head unit, and from the headunit to the CD changer in the trunk. Guess he never heard of T tap fittings or solder. He ran new home speaker wires to the existing bose speakers in the doors, and the amplified rear deck speakers directly from the new head unit. I guess routing them thru the rubber wire tubes that all the other wires going into the doors was too much effort, so evertime you opened the doors you see the new wires running from the door panel to the kick panel. Essentially he ended up with a really crappy sounding single CD player in the car. The only semi smart thing he did was keep the original radio connectors and wire stubs in the glove box. After about 4 hours of splicing and soldering the wires back together the radio works the way it was supposed to and actually sounds pretty good.

Now there are systems out there that will blow away a bose system, but its not going to come from a walmart or best buy, and its not going to cost 200 bucks to either buy or install.