A rather less weighty question that I usually try to use the SD for, but does anyone know how to switch out the rear speakers in an '03 Chevy Malibu? It looks like I have to remove the rear shelf to accomplish this, but I’ve folded the seats down, removed the plastic covers on the child-seat anchors and taken out the plastic pegs out of the vinyl strip across the back, and it still won’t come out.
It looks like the edges of the seat backs (the bits on either side which don’t fold down) need to come out before I can slide it forward, but I don’t see how that’s done. (The light in the trunk has taken this opportunity to burn out also, which isn’t helping the situation).
Any advice? (Even if it’s just to get organized, make an appointment, and pay the $60 installation fee?)
Check out Crutchfield. If you buy the speakers from them, they’ll give you the instructions for free. If you bought them elsewhere, you might still be able to get help just by calling them and asking nicely.
Thanks; I’ve found that if I shove down on the seats, there’s a bolt holding the seatback edges in. Loosening that allows the edges to pop up and out. Cursing strongly allows the rear dash to come out, and super-glue allows me to put back that plastic clip which broke off in the melee.
Looking now though, I see that the old speakers are 8 ohm, while the new ones (Alpine SPS-69C2) are 4 ohm. I know enough about speakers to know that I don’t know much about speakers; is that going to be a problem or not?
Probably not. As long as you don’t crank the thing up to neighborhood-annoying levels, you should be OK as most amps are designed to drive pretty much anything in a 4 to 8 ohm range, and 4 ohms tends to be the standard for car audio anyway.
Potentially, you might have an oddball radio that is truly designed for 8-ohm speakers, in which case, the 4-ohm speakers will result in the amp running at double its normal power level. If this is the case, there are ways around the problem, but let’s hope it’s not a problem.
