Will hopefully getting my new front components this week, I would like to hack into the OEM wiring to make them fit as I don't want to pay for loads of adapters. Can someone please tell me what colour wires should go where for the speakers and tweeters? The standard front speakers have 4 wires, won't the new ones only need two??

Cheers

Mike

Have a look on here.

http://www.pimpmyskoda.co.uk/ICE.htm

Cheers, do I just pair up the standard wires?

the four wires are for your lower speaker and your tweeters. You should be supplied with a crossover - if so you can either tap into the left and right channel of the original wires for your speakers, or just cut and place them into your crossover source. The output would then be your midwoofer and tweeters which would connect to the other side of the crossover.

Hope this makes sense...

Thanks, apparently they have just turned up so I'll take a look when I get home hopefully there will be a crossover.

right I've got it all in place, just need to know which wires to join where. I've run the new tweeter cable under the door card so eliminated the old connector, just need to know which wire to connect from the old speaker cable to the new one. I've attached a couple of pics to show what I've done.

The yellow lines show which wires I think I need to join

If someone could just let me know which they go, the speaker cables are Blue + Black and the oem fitting is Red + Brown/red stripe

so I'm thinking the large terminal on the speaker (positive) to the red wire on the OEM connector?

Look at your OEM Speaker contected....it may give you the clue you need on which terminal is which mate.

Edited 2 August, 201015 yr by cawmere

The other option is on ebay or any good audio shop they sell special connectors where you WON'T have to cut or tap into any wires. just clips on to OEM connector.

I didn't want the extra expense, plus I am likely to be the last owner of the car so I'm not looking to put it back to standard at any point. Cheers for the help.

Does this help?

Drivers side:

BLUE/WHITE = +

BROWN/WHITE = -

Passenger side:

RED = +

BROWN/RED = -

Does this help?

Drivers side:

BLUE/WHITE = +

BROWN/WHITE = -

Passenger side:

RED = +

BROWN/RED = -

That's what I used in the end from your website Just matched it with the larger terminal on the speakers (apparently that is +) Don't suppose you know what the rears colouring is, or is it the same as the front?

Just installed the new 2 way rears and am well chuffed. There is loads of bass and really good clarity. Might not bother with a sub now.

Hi All,

Yesterday & today I fitted new aftermarket front & rear speakers to our Octavia 1.8t Elegance '52 reg.

I swapped out the standard fit ones with 3 way coaxials.

Cheap & cheerful but sound much better (in particular the fronts) than the oem speakers;

 

Front (actually currently £21.99 in store, so cheaper than the online price for some reason).

http://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/sound-systems/fli-fi6-6-16cm-3-way-coaxial-car-speakers

These fit with no mods required.

Rear (these fit but I used the grille surround as a spacer,with some (hacksaw) modification, otherwise the tweeter would foul the side shelf grills)

http://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/sound-systems/fli-fi5-5-13cm-3-way-coaxial-car-speakers

Currently £18.99 in store price.

 

 

I'm posting this to say thanks to the above posters for pointing me in the right direction re. the speaker wiring colours, and also because my post may additionally help someone else out who arrives here after google searching to get help with which colour wire goes where.

 

To expand on the above speaker wire colours as follows;

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Drivers side:
BLUE/WHITE = +
BROWN/WHITE = -
Passenger side:
RED = +
BROWN/RED = -

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I would like to add this for the rear;

Drivers side:

BLUE = +
BROWN/BLUE = -
Passenger side:
RED/GREEN = +
BROWN/GREEN = -

So in essence any wire with brown colouring is negative.

 

As has been mentioned,on the original Skoda speakers, there are 4 terminals not 2.

What happens (on each speaker), is that you will find there is a positive wire & negative wire  (coupled together in one connector) going in.

The other connector that appears to be going in (which looks identical btw), is actually going out from the speaker, & sends signal to the closest tweeter.

To determine which is which, all you have to do is (with music playing) remove one of the 2 connectors.If doing so kills the sound from the speaker, then you have removed the "signal in" connector.

On the other hand, if the sound continues from your speaker upon removing one of the connectors, then you have removed the one who's function is to travel to the nearest tweeter.

 

With my front speakers I opted to retain the use of the oem tweeter,so as regards the wiring in this instance, I snipped off the 2 stock connectors (about an inch & a half from the connector, so I could re-join them in the future if needs be), this left me with 4 wires, 2 pairs of the same colour.So I paired up same colour wires together using a block connectors, then into each empty end of the 2 block connectors (one for positive, one for negative) I attached a single wire each, & then joined these 2 wires to the 2 aftermarket speaker terminals, using spade connectors (actually the wires with the correct spade connectors already attached came supplied with the speakers).

 

With the rears I decided not to use the oem tweeters, so I just unplugged the oem tweeter connectors & left them there doing nothing.And obviously then wired the positive & negative oem speaker input wires to the 2 aftermarket speaker terminals.