Sub woofer replacement.

[rascole]

So I was a anxious to work on my 3 this weekend so I replaced the sub woofer. Thanks to R-code17815 and his post is was nice and easy. It was a little more work removing all the plastic than I thought. Have to remove seat belt anchor, top piece of plastic that surrounds window, & then the bottom piece. Thanks to Amazon Prime the speaker and poly fill were delivered in 1 day. Sub was $94.99 when I bought it, price went up slightly to $101 and poly fill was $3.47. Everything is nice and tight, no rattles. Glad I took the plastic off, there is lots of room for running wires for the new roof rack.

 

[Kyle]

believe it or not its actually possible to do all that with out removing all that stuff! have one person hold the plastic cover thing back while you contort your hands into the area and un screw the speaker! lol:giggle: you will cuss and cut your hands too.

 

[rascole]

That I know, I tried that first with my son holding it back. 5 extra minutes to remove the plastic lets me drink a beer and take my time.

 

[digglesworth]

Nice!!! This has been on my list for a while now along with all the other speakers. Not real high up on my list though. That thing probably hits pretty good now with the upgraded sub and the poly-fil.

 

[06 H3]

Nice. When I open it up I wanna put hushmat in...I want to eventually quiet the H3 up

 

[rascole]

It does hit harder, but not "blow you away" harder. Wasn't high on my list either but I was curious to see behind the panel and it is quick and painless....if you remove the plastic. Going to replace door speakers soon.

 

[Kyle]

Nice. When I open it up I wanna put hushmat in...I want to eventually quiet the H3 up

i have an entire roll of sound dampener, i was going to use it on my project jeep when i had it!

 

[06 H3]

What kind is it?

 

[Kyle]

What kind is it?

idk ill go out in the garage and pull it down and take a look ill text you a pic.

 

[06 H3]

Thank you sir

 

[rascole]

I bought a 16 ounce bag of poly fill and was only able to get about 1/3 of it in there.

 

[Kyle]

I bought a 16 ounce bag of poly fill and was only able to get about 1/3 of it in there.

yea i found that out, i bought a big bag thinking ill use it all a didnt even put a dent in it! i still have a **** ton of it, so i packaged it up and left in the garage lol

 

[Pappibri]

So I was a anxious to work on my 3 this weekend so I replaced the sub woofer. Thanks to R-code17815 and his post is was nice and easy. It was a little more work removing all the plastic than I thought. Have to remove seat belt anchor, top piece of plastic that surrounds window, & then the bottom piece. Thanks to Amazon Prime the speaker and poly fill were delivered in 1 day. Sub was $94.99 when I bought it, price went up slightly to $101 and poly fill was $3.47. Everything is nice and tight, no rattles. Glad I took the plastic off, there is lots of room for running wires for the new roof rack.

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What kind of Sub Woofer did you go with. I want to replace mine and was thinking either a Punch or Kicker.....

 

[digglesworth]

Click on the link up in the original post... It's in the second sentence. It's a shallow Rockford Fosgate.

 

[rascole]

Click on the link up in the original post... It's in the second sentence. It's a shallow Rockford Fosgate.

What digglesworth said. I bought the Rockford after doing some research comparing bump per dollars. I'm not a audiophile but I do know the stock Monsoon is only a step above stock. Even if you don't have a Monsoon system, there is plenty of room to install a small 2 channel amp which I'm sure is better than the Monsoon amp.

 

[digglesworth]

I like that it's a direct swap. Nice to know about the poly-fil... I wasn't sure how much to buy. If I do this I'm obligated to replace the dead passenger rear speakers... So gotta do the fronts to so theyre all the same speakers... It's a domino effect...

 

[rascole]

The whole car is a domino.

 

[rascole]

With my down time today I replaced the 4 door speakers with Rockford Fosgate Punch 1675 6.75" full range speakers. I bought the speaker harness that every website says is right, wrong. Even the local stereo shop says GM uses several different connectors and he said to just clip them off and use regular spade connectors. Install was simple and straight forward. Sound was much better than stock speakers. Would have had more pics but got caught up in the install to get a head of the rain today.

 

[digglesworth]

Did they all fit without any issues? I guess you clipped the wires and used spade terminals? Did you have to buy those mounting plates with the new speakers?

 

[rascole]

All fit perfect, just clipped the factory plug off used the wire diagram from the stereo shop. I used the factory plates, the RF's come with a plate to adapt them to many different sizes. I didn't use any special mat or foam/rubber bucket, I figured the factory speakers lasted this long.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

 

[digglesworth]

I wanna do this since my rear door speakers are toast and I get some weird grumbling from my sub sometimes. You don't happen to have pics of the new speakers mounted in the door do you? Was it as easy as unscrew 4 screws holding stock speaker and use 4 screws to screw in the new ones? And how does it sound? Any thoughts about replacing the tweeters next?

 

[rascole]

Because the rain was starting when I was installing the speakers, I didn't take any pictures of the speakers in the door. But it is really easy to do. There is only 1 screw that holds the factory mounting plate to the door. It has wedge style plate that holds it securely to the door with 1 screw. I didn't touch the tweeters since they are fine and little sound improvement can be had for the extra work involved. The new door speakers are a 3 way full range compared to the single mid-range factory speaker and the sound is much better.

 

[digglesworth]

Cool. I'm looking for a simple direct replacement. This is on my to do list for sure.

 

[Corey Barnes]

So there wasn't a huge difference? Is it because of the stock amp?