I don't see anyone doing this and i'm about to burn out the second subwoofer in a year. They all break the tinsel wire, sooner or later

 

There's 0 for sale on ebay right now so my only solution is to fix the old one or try to find the unobtanium 6" twin coil 8 ohm aftermarket replacement... Did i mention the speaker has a weird bolt pattern?

 

Anyway, here goes nothing. 

 

First step, take out the speaker from the box. Easy peasy.

 

Step two, desolder the tinsel wire from both ends. Pain in the rear

 

Step 3, wait for amazon to deliver 30 cars worth of tinsel wire today and hope it's the right thickness. Stay tuned!

 

 

No chance for an aftermarket replacement with a template for the bolt pattern?

The bolt pattern is something similar to the big dipper, like they couldn't quite fit 2 of the bolts into a square so buying a normal speaker means drilling into the box plastic. I'll get more pictures later on

Tinsel wire arrived! 

 

First stop, decide which way the wire will go. I did it through the speaker, pulled through to the contacts. I found it easier this way because the copper will wick like crazy so it's better to slowly pull until i'm happy everything is tinned but not through the rest of the wire. After that i just cut the slack.

 

Once that's done, leave about 4cm at the other end

Once all 4 are done, go through each wire one by one, trying to find the correct slack inside the speaker. From factory they're soldered in such a way that they mostly bend at the ends, so we want to avoid that! It should be able to travel to both extreme ends and kind of arc in the middle. Once that's sorted, solder everything back and measure the resistances

 

Both of mine came up at about 6.6-6.7 ohms. With the previous wire they were at about 15 ohms best case, fluctuating badly with the slightest movement.

Last thing to do is to glue everything back. I used gorilla glue because that's the only slightly flexible glue i have around. The correct thing to use would be loctite black tak 4105 plus their activator, both of which are very hard to find with a decent price

 

And now we wait..

@travshere's the weird bolt pattern.

 

Happy to update that about 6 months later i still have the repaired subwoofer in the boot working just fine. Don't want to jinx it now but it might have worked!

Are you making lassos with the remaining wire? 😁

I'm keeping it in that box with all the other things i've only needed once in the past 5 years. You know the one. If i throw it, no doubt i'll need it again within the week

3 hours ago, Athrx said:

If i throw it, no doubt i'll need it again within the week

Always the case.😄