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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443   
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I put a pair of tweeters in my Td5, they're in their own golfball type cases and they sit on their sticky bases at each end of the crash pad. As I've still got speakers on the lower dash panel by your knees I joined the wires on the tweeters to the nearest speaker so I just piggybacked off the fronts.
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25th Feb 2016 10:22pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20367 
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If you find a photo of a Puma dash you'll see the mounting they have on the dash top at each end.
You could copy that and would look pretty factory too. You can indeed piggyback of the front speakers as mentioned above. |
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25th Feb 2016 10:25pm |
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| grafty99 Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: North Devon Posts: 4785 
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This is the only picture I could find of my dash, tweeters in the puma location
 Click image to enlarge 2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon 1990 Vogue SE Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200 Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html Instagram http://www.instagram.com/george_grafton |
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25th Feb 2016 11:16pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20367
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That's the one.
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25th Feb 2016 11:50pm |
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| CDN38 Member Since: 14 Nov 2014 Location: Courtenay, BC Posts: 729  
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grafty99, what are you running in your lower dash for speakers? it's a Landrover thing...
my renovation thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40792.html |
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26th Feb 2016 1:34am |
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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5843 
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Thanks peoples. So in relation to the speakers, does it matter where the tweeters go? With my speakers behing by the top of the B pillar, will the tweeters need to go near there? 1999 Defender TD5 110
Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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26th Feb 2016 7:37am |
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| epictrail Member Since: 20 Sep 2013 Location: High Wycombe Posts: 395 
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Best improvement you can make is to not use the speakers in the headling above the b pillars and mount speakers in the dash as the photo shows. The headlining speakers are too close to your ears !!
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26th Feb 2016 8:14am |
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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5843
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I did think about moving the speakers but don't want to cut holes in the dash board. 1999 Defender TD5 110
Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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26th Feb 2016 8:32am |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769 
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Tweeters need some form of crossover so don't just wire them from the head unit or other speakers. I also fitted mine to the top of the dash as above. Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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26th Feb 2016 9:35am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20367
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They should have X overs wired in-line.
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26th Feb 2016 10:19am |
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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5843
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Do the ones from a Puma Defender come with crossovers built in? 1999 Defender TD5 110
Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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26th Feb 2016 11:53am |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769
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I've not actually seen any but they will have a little resistor soldered t the body of the tweeter Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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26th Feb 2016 12:08pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6605 
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Yes Puma tweeters have crossovers built in
1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
2015 D90 XS SW |
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26th Feb 2016 12:51pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20367
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As Martin said, built in on Puma tweets, and most likely on some aftermarket models too.
On my Kicker one's it is in-line instead. So long as there is an X over present that's all that matter. |
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26th Feb 2016 7:59pm |
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