Ok, So I noticed that all the speaker/radio wiring in my car was redone before and the person who did it used the WORST wires and did an even worse job doing the wiring.

Would it be possible for my to just by pass my car's radio harness and wire up my head unit directly to the speakers? Please help, my speakers all sound highly under powered and sometimes even make this ungodly static noise, I need to fix this fast.

 

yeah, just run speaker wires from each speaker to the headunit. thats the best way to do it even if you have a 4-channel amp... might as well use like 14 gauge speaker wire if you plan on amping them anytime...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 2ndchancehonda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah, just run speaker wires from each speaker to the headunit. thats the best way to do it even if you have a 4-channel amp... might as well use like 14 gauge speaker wire if you plan on amping them anytime...</TD></TR></TABLE>

Well, I dont have any amps or anything its just a 52x4 head unit with 2 5 1/4 speakers front and 6 1/2 speakers in the rear. So what gauge wires should I run from the speakers to the HU...with no amp?

 

16-22 will be fine... thicker is better either way, but stock **** is like 22

 

Anyone know where I could personally go and buy some good speaker wire, butt connectors and a wire cutter/stripper?

 

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Well, I dont have any amps or anything its just a 52x4 head unit with 2 5 1/4 speakers front and 6 1/2 speakers in the rear. So what gauge wires should I run from the speakers to the HU...with no amp?</TD></TR></TABLE>
If the oem speaker and power wire is damaged in some way then you will have to replace it.



If it's not, clean it up, rewire the HU to the oem radio harness [ remove any wireing that is not oem] all 4 speakers, acc.,light,power ant.trigger,ground. And for best sound wire your 12v conn. [yellow wire on HU] to batt.+ .

Your "52x4" HU is about 15 watts rms per ch. and the oem wireing will be ok.
If you have to replace the speaker wire , spend some $$ and get the wire you will want to use when you add an amp,and start the wire from where you would mount your amp/amps then just run cheap wire from there to HU [ take my word for it you will only want to wire your car once] and at the same time run your RCAs and amp.trigger wire,run power wire [no need to hook up yet] that way you will only take your car apart once.

Take your time and do it right the first time so as you add more STUFF all you have to do is mount and connect. hope this helps. 94