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I installed the same deck in my '94 B4000, so I won't be confused when I change vehicles [age does that to a fellow].
Now I'm looking at speakers, LOL. some kids never grow up. the polk db series sounds quite good for the money. Any other suggestions?
But, why not mount two 6 1/2 inch speakers in the rear deck instead? There the highs will bounce off the rear window and probably give you a better effect than rear door speakers anyway, IMO.
Or, if you already have speakers in the rear deck, what can be gained by adding rear door speakers?
I don't believe the addition of two 5 1/4 rear door speakers will add much to the perceived loudness. I am no expert in the "loud music" field, just offering my opinion.
The P5 uses 5-1/4 speakers in the rear doors. You probably will want to invest in additional amps to drive the additional speakers.
Look at getting component tweeters in the front doors as well. Again, look at P5 wire harnesses to put these into your sedan. I think a cross-over splits the signal to the front speakers off to the tweeters.
Good luck and have fun. Try not to blow out your eardrums.
as you can guess, i'm looking to put a roof rack on my 2003 protege. It has the factory installed sun roof and i am trying to find where i can purchase an OEM roof rack, short of going to the dealership. Any suggestions or websites?
Thanks
rob
Does any one know what the watts are for the stock speakers? I'm just looking to get a richer/better sound quality. (sorry dumb ques. here) If I change the speakers, they will be hidden under the speaker covers like the stock ones?
I noticed that the ES trim has white gauges on the odometer, what is the backlight color? Would I be able to order those through Mazda? I just have the boring green with the black background.
Last question for now, The black trim on the outside window/doors, are the replaceable? My passenger side is all faded and peeling.
Thank you in advance!
Get ones with rubber surrounds. It lasts longer than the foam on the stock speakers. Get non-paper cones (paper is usually found on cheaper speakers) as well. 2-way, 3-way or 4-way is up to your budget and hearing ability. The stock use "whizzer" cones for the higher frequencies, so they're kinda like 2-way speakers. Don't get me wrong, the stock speakers are decent (the ones in the Corolla and Civic are puny), but you can do better.
Look on-line at Crutchfield for equipment that fits with your LX. If you stick with those that fit, you won't have to cut holes in your doors or rear shelf. They'll also tell you what head units fit. The downside of Proteges is the pocket for the head unit isn't that deep (something like 6.13 inches), so that limits the selection a lot. Others will fit with modification, but the faceplate will jut out from the dashboard.
The back-light color on ES and P5 Pros is red.
The black trim is just black plastic film. You can replace it yourself. With care, it will look like new. I'm suprised yours is fading. My '99 has fresh-looking trim still. Of course, it gets garaged nights and weekends, so it is spared some exposure.
Would you know where to get the plastic film? I went to the daelership to get prices to replace the trim and 1 side would come out to over $200.! Could not find anything online either. I have no idea what cold of happened; even my wiper arms look like they belong on a 10 yr. old car. ??? I did for 1 yr. have to park w/out any cover & i'm in the desert.
Thanks
If your head unit's display is wonked out, then replace that first, though I think replacing the speakers makes a bigger difference in terms of sound quality and quantity. And yes, dB/W is the key factor, though the bottom end still will tell you when they kick in.
I think for now I might just change the cd player; even though the sound won't be great I won't have to keep hitting the (digital) display so its readable & i will be able to listen to my burned cd's w/out it occaisionally skipping and blanking.
Look under sections 09-11 and 09-20.
I placed a couple of text-only posts on this board describing how to replace the speakers, including door & rear shelf panel removal (#s 272 and 274, I think). Someone else later posted links to a site with pictures illustrating the process. It might be this site:
http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/newcar/install.html
His is a P5 (and a nice-looking one, but they all are ), so it doesn't cover the rear shelf speakers in the sedan.
The stock radio has very good radio reception. It's much better than my aftermarket JVC. It could pull in many local stations with my antenna fully retracted into the A-pillar. With my JVC, I have to pull out the antenna at least 1/2 of the way out to match the same performance.
Do you get static with the antenna all the way out with even strong stations? If so, I'd suspect a bad connection somewhere.
What mods (mostly interested in performance mods) would you recommend?
Thanks!
It looks great and the difference between the PIAA Extreme Whites I used to have and this kit is amaizing... however, everytime I get on the road (specially at night)half the cars on the road Highbeam me.
Is anyone else with an HID kit experiencing this problem, and if so, how did you resolve it???
Thanks a bunch!
It seems I've search the web high and low and I'm having a hard time trying to find any good websites that sell accessories for the Protege5.
I've looked at a couple of websites posted on this board but they seem so limited (in terms of products).
Any suggestions????
Thanks in advanced.
I thought about that, but I also read in some other forum that it may be a good idea to adjust the headlights down a bit. So far I've read about a bunch of people who have the same problem even with the stock bulbs and 95% of the time the same people adjusted the headlights down by parking about 10 feet from a wall on leveled ground.
I was thinking of doing that, the only problem now is how to go about adjusting them. I looked under the hood and noticed a copper colored nut with teeth on them behind the headlight housing covered by a plastic cap.
I'm sure that's what you have to mess with to adjust them, but I don't know if the plastic caps need to come off or not before using th flathead screwdriver.
But again, thanks a bunch for your suggestion.
Hmm. The nuts (lower, outer corner on each lamp housing) on mine don't have plastic caps over them. The upper ones (opposite from the lower luts across the bulb) do. :confuse:
Anyway, good luck adjusting them.
Thanks!
That's too bad. Did you check pages 01-10A and 01-10B?
It has (factory fitted) roof rails/cross-bars. The rear one appears to be adjustable (the front appears to be fixed). They are currently to far apart for my ski box. Anyone know how to adjust them ? Can they be adjusted ?
I just took off the rack today and it only takes a couple minutes.