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Old Nov 21, 2015 | 11:24 PM
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Default Help with Rear Subwoofer and stock amp

After doing a lot of reading on here, I replaced the head unit with the Kenwood Marine blue tooth radio and attempted to replace the surround on my stock subwoofers. The new radio sounds awesome and I am loving it so far. Unfortunately, I botched one of the sub woofer surrounds and it glued the cone at an angle so the driver rubs against the magnet and sounds pretty bad. Based on reading posts here and speaking with a local car audio shop, stock replacements do not exist and aftermarket options are not plug and play.


I am OK with a bit of light modification, but I have little electrical skill (I can twist 2 wires together and screw on a cap, but not all that much more)


It looks like Kicker recently came out with a 6.75" sub (CompRT67) that is dual voice coil and 2 ohm, but looking at the design, I am not sure, even with cutting out a large portion of the enclosure, it would fit at all. Has anyone tried this one?
6.75" CompRT Subwoofer - 2 Ohm | KICKERŪ


I see several people have gone with the Pyle PLPW6D subwoofer. Based on other posts, it looks like only a bit of modification to our enclosure is needed, but it is listed as dual 4Ohm.
Amazon.com: Pyle PLPW6D 6-Inch 600 Watt Dual 4 Ohm Subwoofer: Car Electronics Amazon.com: Pyle PLPW6D 6-Inch 600 Watt Dual 4 Ohm Subwoofer: Car Electronics


I am not planning on adding or upgrading the stock amp. It is my understanding that to get a dual 4ohm speaker working with a 2ohm amp, you have to hook the subwoofer up in parallel. The stock subwoofers have a 4 prong spade connector. To hook the Pyle's up in parallel, would that mean that I would only use 2 of the space connecters and hook the positive on the spade up to both positives on the speaker and do the same for the negative?


The Pyle is also listed as a 6" subwoofer instead of a 6.5 or 6.75. Do the mounting holes for the Pyle line up to the stock enclosure after cutting away room for the magnet?


Sorry for all the questions and thanks for any help you can provide!
 
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