I don't know much of the speaker world but I do want to replace the two front speakers as one sounds awful.  What do I need to know to replace these?  I have an aftermarket Kenwood receiver, I'm not looking to share my music with the world, I just want something that sounds clear in the cab.  Am I going to have to cut holes in the door panel or are there options to get something similar to the OEM speakers?

Hawk,

You don't mention in your sig if you have the upgraded stereo (with the tweeters in the pillar I think) or if it is a quad cab or not.  But fronts should be the same either way.

 

I like crutchfield http://www.crutchfield.com/

 

Put in your vehicle information, go to speakers, then look at the list of speakers.  There will be an information thingy below each one that say "it fits" with a green check mark.  click it.  It will show you what bracket will come with the speaker to make it fit and tell you of any other modifications needed. 

 

If you still bomb, call them.  I have always had superb service from them.  (and all the brackets, wiring adapters etc are part of the price.  you don't have to select them individually and make a mistake.) 

 

On the speaker end, the replacement speakers never have the same connector as the factory, so do be prepared for that.

 

HTH
 

Hag

Walmart has Pioneer 6x9 speakers for pretty cheap. Zero modification to the doors. You do have to cut the wires off and splice them to the new wires, but that's easy. Very good sound out of them too!

I put some 6x9 in the front doors and I don't get any low end out of them.

x2 on call crutchfield

After installing a new radio/receiver I discovered that I had two speakers that did not work: the speaker in the driver's door and the right-aft speaker.  I bought new speakers from Amazon: 2 6"X9" for the front and 2 5.25" for the back.  The installation wasn't the "plug-'n-play" that I had hoped for and I couldn't find any information on swapping these speakers and figuring out the wiring took me a minute or two so I thought I'd share what I found.

Here is a picture of the front speaker after it was removed, they have an amplifier bolted up to them and hard wired to them.  The amp is held on by two bolts.

 

These amps power both the front and the back speakers. To keep the back speakers I had to splice a couple of these wires together, if not you will not get sound to the back.  Here is how I did it:

 

Gray and yellow (wires 5 and 10) are the - side that go to the back.  I soldered those two wires together.

Brown and orange (wires 6 and 9) are the + side and I soldered those two together. 

 

 

White and Green (wires 7 & 8) are for powering the amp and are no longer needed.

Red and Black is the amplified signal going to the tweeter.  In photo you see that I capped these, but after realizing that the tweeters didn't work I wend in and connected them to the post on the speaker.  Tweeters now work. 

 

 

The blue and purple wires (from pins 3 & 4) go to the speaker.  I soldered on new legs to add a little more length.  The blue wire is the + and the purple is the - side. 

 

 

I capped everything with crimp-caps after soldering them and then taped up the harness.

 

 

The process is the same for both the left and right side speakers. 

 

I was then able to plug it back in and hook up my new speakers.  I know I could have ran new and a better quality speaker wire but I had no interest in that.  I am just looking for a clear sound.  With my two dead speakers I had to crank up the volume just to hear from the passenger side speaker, I now can hear much better and I am happy with the sound.

 

The problem with my speaker in the back wasn't due to a bad speaker, it was a break in the wire where the door hinges.  I pulled the rubber flex tube and soldered the two back together.  The hardest part of all of this was the getting the door panels off and back on.  I bought a package of the plastic door panel fasteners to replace broke or worn out fasteners that came out.  I have LOTS of extra and I am willing to share if anyone is in need. 

 

Maybe this was all common knowledge to the rest of the dodge world but I thought I'd share anyway. 

 

Edited July 17, 20186 yr by Hawkez

Is the amp/speaker combo only on the optional sound system, not the base model?

26 minutes ago, Royal Squire said:

Is the amp/speaker combo only on the optional sound system, not the base model?

The speakers that I pulled out of the back had "Infinity" on them.  I don't know how optional that is or was when my truck came off the line. 

On 12/13/2016 at 0:14 PM, TFaoro said:

Walmart has Pioneer 6x9 speakers for pretty cheap. Zero modification to the doors. You do have to cut the wires off and splice them to the new wires, but that's easy. Very good sound out of them too!

 

I have set and am not impressed. Now the Polks I have in my car, are great. I will be removing them before I sell it and transfer them to the truck.

Things are a little different on my 01.5, I believe. The red and black wires go to the speaker (passenger side is all I've checked so far) before continuing to...? The tweeter, I assume.

 

Strike all of the above! I see now what was being communicated.

Edited December 9, 20186 yr by LorenS
I was a dope.