4x4Lamm

Now that I have a nice new $100 Sony CD player I would like to upgrade my speakers in my 4Runner. The stock ones are very tired. Are these sizes correct?

-Front in dash: 4"
-Rear in wall: 6x9"
-Rear tweeters (in celing): 2"

If I am wrong please edumakate me (car audio is not my thing).

Thanks!
Lamm

bike4miles

In your 95'? Yea, the fronts are 4" but the rears are 5 1/4" with no tweaters. Thoes slots in the top are vents although I always thought it would be cool to put tweaters there.

Yota4runner

I do believe you are correct on the 6x9's and the 4inchers, not sure about the tweeter though. I dunno if I have one of those..if I do man I am missin out.

bike4miles

BTW, 6 1/2" are the largest you can fit in the rear behind the paneles but in doing so you have to do a little modifying. The stock speakers are mounted in boxes that make them sound better so the 5 1/4" in the stock box will likely sound as good or better as the 6 1/2" without the box. Anyway, here is what I did.

4x4Lamm

I definetly have speakes in the top.

In my 92 I never had rear speales that worked because there was a "system" in when I bought it that i promptly removed.

The "tweeters" I am talking about are not oh the wall of the cargo area, but in the grille area on the buldge on the rear celing that contains the cargo area light.

No doubt in my mind there are speakers there.

So 1 vote for 6x9s, 1 vote for 5.25"s

Lamm

Yota4runner

Are those right behind the seat? Speakers can go in there?! I just though it was another vent. Did you close off your cargo spaces or whatever they are at the very back by the tailgate? I have 6x9's in there. And in there I mean the cargo area.

4x4Lamm

Thanks Miles!

I'm pretty sure if you did all that you would know they are 5.25"

I'm not looking to have an awsome system, just get rid of my old, crackley paper speakers.

Lamm

bike4miles

This is what I pulled from the rear of my 4runner:

bike4miles

Also, picture of front enclosures. nice the condition of the stock speaker on the table, lol.

4x4Lamm

So are the rears 5 1/4' or 4 1/2 " ???

They look like 4.5 in the picture. Will a 5.25" screw right in?

Thanks!
Lamm

jsnby

when i redid the system in my 92 4runner, i had them put 3.5" boston acoutics in the stock location in the dash and had boston acoutic 6x9s custom mounted in the rear of the cargo area. I had to cut the plastic pannel to get them to fit, and also had to soundproof the entire cargo area to stop the sheet metal from vibrating.

Yota4runner

Oh man, those stockers are blah, I usedmine as frisbees when I pulled them out. Now that I know I can fit 5 1/4" Back there, guess what I'm doing this week. Considering I have a brand new set of Pioneer 5 1/4" that I was gonna try to find a spot for in the runner. Thanks Miles

UKMyers

My 94 had 4" up front and 5 1/4" in the rear and tweets above the back window. I could never find the wires for the tweets so I have my back two speakers and the tweets spliced together and running off the back two channels of my deck. Amazing what replacing the speakers can do for ya

4x4Lamm

So...

4" in dash
5 1/4" in rear
and the infamous mystery tweeters... Time to go shopping.

Lamm

Yota4runner

Lamm,

What Sony deck did you get?

4x4Lamm

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ulAKVxj...display=XL#Tab

Its a bare bones model, but thats what I needed, wanted and was willing to pay for. I like it a lot however.

Lamm

hondacrusher

I got a set of 5 1/4 pioneers That did not fit in the stock rear location. I was doing both the front and rear at the same time, and the 4 inch front speakers were barely big enought to fit in the rear speaker box. I would say the measurments of 4.5" are accurate, the problem is finding a speakers that are 4.5 inches to would fit in the rear speakerbox. I cant remember exactly, but i think the rear tweeters are around 2 or 3 inches.this is all on my 94

Yota4runner

Nice! I'm currently running this one. Link

Sony makes a good deck.

4x4Lamm

I was looking at that one when I was thinking I needed XM radio (used to have Sirrus), but I decided against it in the end.

Lamm

Yota4runner

I like it, was worth the money.