Adding door speakers

[The Radium King]

if you buy the harness you can find the wires intended for the speakers and trace them back to the connector - that will tell you which pins on the body side are for the speakers (note that the car is not wired for door speakers on the body side either). then you'll have to find the little bosch pins to insert on the body side connector to run the wires to your dash speakers - for what it's worth they are the same as the pins on the rear defroster wiring harness. ps, confirm that you get the proper harness as there are many variants out there (search thr online parts cstalog on auto atlanta to see). final warning is that wreckers dont take a lot of care to remove these things so expect a lot of broken plastic tabs, connectors, etc.

[jeffm]

Originally Posted by The Radium King

if you buy the harness you can find the wires intended for the speakers and trace them back to the connector - that will tell you which pins on the body side are for the speakers (note that the car is not wired for door speakers on the body side either). then you'll have to find the little bosch pins to insert on the body side connector to run the wires to your dash speakers - for what it's worth they are the same as the pins on the rear defroster wiring harness. ps, confirm that you get the proper harness as there are many variants out there (search thr online parts cstalog on auto atlanta to see). final warning is that wreckers dont take a lot of care to remove these things so expect a lot of broken plastic tabs, connectors, etc.

Yeah, that's why I was hoping someone could confirm the pinout. The wrecker could not verify if this specific harness was from a vehicle that had door speakers.

Thanks for the tip on the wire pins.

[j.fro]

My thoughts were to just buy 2 new door panels with the OEM speaker grille and boxes

I would delete this idea. The largest speakers you can get in the factory boxes are 5" round. Even if you are using the factory stereo and amp, a 6.5" or 6X9 will sound much better. For the factory stuff, I think you need 2ohm speakers to work properly. Infinity Kappa's will work with the factory stuff and sound nice.