Anyone Ever Install Mk3 VW Golf or Jetta After Market comps?

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Anyone Ever Install Mk3 VW Golf or Jetta After Market comps?

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After finding out that Q-forms aren't all they're cracked up to be, what I will have to do is start with an RSd 6.5cs set in the front doors and dash openings...bummer considering what I originally had in mind but since everyone is speaking so highly of the comps, I am hoping I won't be disappointed with just the one set. I am going to power the one pair heavier to compensate for the missing pair. I want to use a Ti600.2. I posted this on SB also so sorry if any of you see it twice.

1.How tough is it to take the door panels off and run wire in a mk3 VW Golf?
2.Is it hard to run a heavier guage wire up to the tweeter?
3.Is it hard to change from a factory tweeter to an aftermarket tweeter?(the factory tweet looks as if it is fixed in place and I would have to cut it out)
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if you go with the rsd's, the tweet already has 16awg lead coming off of it so, running anything bigger up to it wouldn't do much good
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Re: Anyone Ever Install Mk3 VW Golf or Jetta After Market co

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Phoenixcolt wrote: 1.How tough is it to take the door panels off and run wire in a mk3 VW Golf?
Don't worry about the door panels, unless you are planning on doing full door deadening. Just remove the grill and you can fish the wire through that 3 inch wire boot pretty easily, be careful though I have seen a few models where the door grill does not just pop off.
Phoenixcolt wrote:2.Is it hard to run a heavier guage wire up to the tweeter?
Not really you are however better off dropping the wire from the top and working your way downward.
Phoenixcolt wrote:3.Is it hard to change from a factory tweeter to an aftermarket tweeter?(the factory tweet looks as if it is fixed in place and I would have to cut it out)
The factory tweet is a plate style, get a piece of metal back strap paint it black cut it to a length to fit, bend it to direct the tweeter to the appropriate angle you wish, then attach the tweeter to the strap. Keep in mind a tweeter does not need to be enclosed.
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Excellent news for me. What exactly is metal back strap though?
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plumbers tape/

imaging a roll of masking tape that is metal with pre-spaced holes in it
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Easy enough, thanks.
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I replied at SB. I love my MK3 :)
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