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I noticed immediately the rear speakers in these trucks are horrible when I faded to the rear on the head unit. I recently added the kicker under seat sub and would love to get more from the read door speakers. Anyone swap them out that have the bose system? Anything special needed (Id love a write up on removing door skins and a parts list)

 

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On 11/30/2020 at 9:52 AM, Desl_dad said:

I noticed immediately the rear speakers in these trucks are horrible when I faded to the rear on the head unit. I recently added the kicker under seat sub and would love to get more from the read door speakers. Anyone swap them out that have the bose system? Anything special needed (Id love a write up on removing door skins and a parts list)

 

Thanks!

So you have the Bose speakers and you think that they are horrible?

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On 11/30/2020 at 9:52 AM, Desl_dad said:

I noticed immediately the rear speakers in these trucks are horrible when I faded to the rear on the head unit. I recently added the kicker under seat sub and would love to get more from the read door speakers. Anyone swap them out that have the bose system? Anything special needed (Id love a write up on removing door skins and a parts list)

 

Thanks!

 

I have an old set of Polk Audio DB-series 6.5" components laying around.  I used them 2 cars ago and pulled them before I sold the car.  I was thinking about swapping out the rear door speakers to see what it did.  The only problem is that I don't know where to put the tweeter and I'm not really interested in cutting the door.

Anyone have any photos?

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On 11/30/2020 at 9:52 AM, Desl_dad said:

I noticed immediately the rear speakers in these trucks are horrible when I faded to the rear on the head unit. I recently added the kicker under seat sub and would love to get more from the read door speakers. Anyone swap them out that have the bose system? Anything special needed (Id love a write up on removing door skins and a parts list)

 

Thanks!

You are correct.  The Bose upgrade is quite a letdown.  I would hate to see what the basic speakers are like if this is the upgraded system.  

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I would agree with this assessment that the Bose system is not at all up to their normal quality.  The majority of sound including base seems to be coming from the dash corner speakers.  Unless I set the fader to nearly all rear speaker sound I can basically not even tell they are playing... as if they are not getting near enough power.  The sound system in my 2018 SLT was far better. 

 

Has anyone tried upgrading the door speakers that significantly improved on the sound? 

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I played around some more with the sound system today.  I activated the Pandora app.  For reasons I am not sure of, the sound was much more robust playing Pandora than it had been listening to FM.  The system seemed to be operating as I would have expected.  Has anyone else noticed something similar?

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I have noticed the rear speakers basically suck.  I dont get it.  The front sounds amazing.  That being said, I do get some weird symptoms, where sometimes the volume is basically reduced and cut in half.  Suddenly, without warning, it will kick on like normal.  I cant explain or recreate it, but has happened about 5 times in 6 months.  Odd.

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the rear speakers in all the trucks I have had over the last 10 years have sucked. every brand, they are all about the same

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