How to - Installing new Speakers in your 3rd Gen

I cannot say this enough, the Subaru tweeters made a world of difference! I also bought a couple of the pioneer 8” subwoofers. They fit behind the rear seats and sound great as well. I have an 1100 watt boss riot amp under the driver’s seat. The replacement door speakers are ordered, just waiting on them to be delivered from Crutchfield.

 

Thanks for the write up...u owe me $250 now! Just finish install of tweeters, front and rear speakers. Tweeters were cake to install and huge difference in sound. I don't think they'd work for me by themselves though, just too much high with no balance. After reading some of other people's problem with the brackets, I mounted speaker to bracket first and drilled 4th hole since it didn't line up. Taking off the front doors were easy. Rear doors were much tougher to get off, had to use some muscle and then pull clips off the door and put back on door trim. Only did sound dampening sheets in front, mainly because I forgot about the back lol. I don't hear any rattling so I'm sure it'll be fine. My only real issue are the clips holding the trim if the front doors by the mirror (triangular piece). I didn't pull those out and went to put trim back on and pushed 2 of the 3 clips through the door... they're gone, but trim seems to stay. Might have to order a few.
Quality on the kickers is nice, biggest difference to me was the bass. The mids and his were definitely improved too. Overall worth the time and money and definitley doable by pretty much anybody.

 

I thought about a headunit. Don't have the desire for it yet, but that could change very easily. Did u have to run an amp or was the head unit powerful enough?

Do u have a part number or link to those clips by chance?

 

Did u install head unit yourself? How was that install? Did u lose any functionality that the factory head unit did (alarm beep volume, some other things I can't think of). Thanks for the part #.

 

Thanks for the info! You'll probably end up costing me another ~$600 soon. But thanks, lol!

 

I’m watching this thread and will add to it when my truck comes in, since it is basically the same setup as my van. What I did was buy JL Audio component speakers, they came with crossovers. The plan 2as to install the tweeters in the “sqwauker” position in the dash, and the woofers in the door. However when I hooked them up this way I realized the stock front door speakers and dash tweeters are wired in series and running at 2 ohms, so when I hooked up the JL audios with the crossover, there wasn’t enough volume. So I wired them in series and used an inline crossover instead of the JL audio one, then made brackets for the tweeters in the dash. I’m planning on just transferring the whole setup over. Unless they did something different in the Tacoma? Looking on Crutchfield everything up front looks the same

 

Curious to see what the 1400NEX looks like in the dash. Can you post some pics for us thinking about going with an aftermarket head unit?

 

Amazon has them a lot cheaper

$9 Rexka 30pcs Door Garnish Moulding Retainer Clip Compatible with Toyota Lexus 67771-58010 Tundra Tacoma Sequoia RAV4 Land Cruiser Highlander C-HR Yaris Scion xD

https://www.amazon.com/Rexka-Mouldi...26174&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=67771-58010&psc=1

 

Yup. That's where I got them from. Coming in today.

 

Just put the Amazon clips on and don't see any problems. Should be good.

 

THANK YOU. the stock speakers get old after awhile

 

Hello,
Will these work on 2nd Gens as well? I have a 2015 (non-JBL) with an Entune Audio Plus.
Thank you

 

I am honestly not sure. :-(

 

My $0.02:

When taking off the side view mirror cover, make sure to remove the white clips. They are easy to pull out (squeeze together) if they don’t come off with panel. If not, you will push them through the holes and they will drop behind the metal panel. That pocket is not open-bottomed either and they won’t fall through to the bottom. I had to remove mirror and fish them out with a modified hook.

 

Has anyone just jut out the OEM tweeter and wired in an aftermarket tweeter on top of the tweeter bracket?

 

This would be difficult to do. The tweeter and mounting plate are one piece. You would need to disassemble the new tweeter and figure out how to mount it inside that plate

 

Instead of purchasing the aftermarket replacement tweeters I fought I say just replacement plates so yo can add your own preference of tweeter but I cannot seem to find the link anymore. I'm asking because I have a 2 pair of Bose tweeters I would like to install.
2nd set I am going to parallel into the front set and install on rear wall in access cab.

 

I did it. Had some Bose tweeters that looked like they would fit. They did perfectly!

 

That picture shows how cheap the OEM tweeters are, might also want to take a look at the door speakers, they are even worse.

 

Yes cheap but not as CHEAP as the door speakers. Had the panels off the 1st weekend after I bought the truck to pull the OEM speakers and install Infinity 2way 6.5” and 3way 6x9”.

Working on building platform for under jump seats to house 2x 6.5" subs.