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excossack



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United Kingdom 1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue
Fitting tweeters - TD5
On my TD5 110 I have speakers just above the B Pillar in the headling and that's it. Now got a pair of tweeters but where to fit and how?
Do these wire in direct from the speaker feeds, so into the speaker with two wires and then two wires out into the tweeter? 1999 Defender TD5 110

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John M0VAZ
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JWL



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England 2002 Defender 110 Td5 SW Coniston Green
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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custom90



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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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This is the only picture I could find of my dash, tweeters in the puma location Thumbs Up



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custom90



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That's the one. Thumbs Up
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CDN38



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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
Post #508327 26th Feb 2016 1:34am
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excossack



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United Kingdom 1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue
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

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John M0VAZ
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Post #508346 26th Feb 2016 7:37am
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epictrail



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United Kingdom 2004 Defender 110 Td5 HT Chawton White
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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excossack



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United Kingdom 1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue
I did think about moving the speakers but don't want to cut holes in the dash board. 1999 Defender TD5 110

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John M0VAZ
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Post #508359 26th Feb 2016 8:32am
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mk1collector



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England 2004 Defender 110 Td5 CSW Bonatti Grey
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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custom90



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They should have X overs wired in-line.
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excossack



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United Kingdom 1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue
Do the ones from a Puma Defender come with crossovers built in? 1999 Defender TD5 110

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John M0VAZ
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Post #508408 26th Feb 2016 11:53am
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mk1collector



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England 2004 Defender 110 Td5 CSW Bonatti Grey
I've not actually seen any but they will have a little resistor soldered t the body of the tweeter Ray
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http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html
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Martin
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United Kingdom 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red
Yes Puma tweeters have crossovers built in  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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custom90



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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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