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Just finished installing my Alpines in the Soundbar. Sounds good and looks good.

Now how the hell am I going to upgrade the knee panels. The passenger side is now problem, it's the driver side. Any ideas out side of completely dismantling EVERYTHING?
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Seeing that makes me feel so much better ?.
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Just finished installing my Alpines in the Soundbar. Sounds good and looks good.

Now how the hell am I going to upgrade the knee panels. The passenger side is now problem, it's the driver side. Any ideas out side of completely dismantling EVERYTHING?
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After seeing this picture and hearing what a pain it is to change the knee panel speakers, my stock speakers suddenly sound great! Man, the factory speakers are awesome! Perfect. No need to replace!
 

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It's not really about true positive and true negative, it's about all the speakers being connected the same so they are all pushing in and out at the same time. When I first installed the Infinity speakers in my dash, the mid range sounded terrible, that's when I saw the wiring was reversed by the Metra adapters. Switching the Metra wires fixed the problem.
same here, i switched the metra wires too. it's a common issue people have noted on other mopar forums w/ the metra wire adapters
 

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same here, i switched the metra wires too. it's a common issue people have noted on other mopar forums w/ the metra wire adapters
This is the first I've heard it affects other mopars, I thought it was just a Gladiator/Wrangler issue.
 
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Just finished installing my Alpines in the Soundbar. Sounds good and looks good.

Now how the hell am I going to upgrade the knee panels. The passenger side is no problem, it's the driver side. Any ideas out side of completely dismantling EVERYTHING?
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This is the first I've heard it affects other mopars, I thought it was just a Gladiator/Wrangler issue.
I hooked up the new wiring harness's and mine sound great. don't know what these other guys are doing.
 

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Just finished installing my Alpines in the Soundbar. Sounds good and looks good.

Now how the hell am I going to upgrade the knee panels. The passenger side is no problem, it's the driver side. Any ideas out side of completely dismantling EVERYTHING?
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looks like a crap ton of work. Let us know how it works out.
 

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So there is a way to access the driver side knee panel speaker that's less invasive but I read as far as removing the headlight knob and dimmer control then thought to myself...

"EFF THIS MAN!!! 7 out of 9 speakers is good enough."

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/adding-an-aftermarket-amp-s.6568/
and all we're doing is just replacing speaks that can handle more watts so they don't break up at louder volumes. but we did add tweeters to make them more clear. I also said F that after seeing the videos and sure ain't gonna pay someone a crazy amount to get them in there.
 

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Just finished installing my Alpines in the Soundbar. Sounds good and looks good.

Now how the hell am I going to upgrade the knee panels. The passenger side is no problem, it's the driver side. Any ideas out side of completely dismantling EVERYTHING?
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That looks awful. I’ll be keeping factory speakers until they all blow out lol
 
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That looks awful. I’ll be keeping factory speakers until they all blow out lol
You don't have to do all that Moe to get better sound. It can be cone by replacing the dash and sound bar speakers and you can do it all yourself.
 

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You don't have to do all that Moe to get better sound. It can be cone by replacing the dash and sound bar speakers and you can do it all yourself.
I get that. Knowing me, I wouldn’t be satisfied haha If I’m going to put the time and money into something I go all in. That’s my downfall.
 
 







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