Rockford forsgate front speakers good?

[GeneralB44]

Hi all,

Best Buy had a sale on 3 1/2" rockford forsgate front speakers (which I think are the right size) so I picked them up. I can still return them, so I was wondering if they are any good or not?

And anybody have any tips for getting the dash piece off to get the old crusty speakers out? It looks like the screws are facing the windshield so I'm not sure how to get to them!

Thanks!
Brendan

 

[dconnor]

Take a close look at them, does the inner tweeter extend out past (above) the mounting rim? If not they will work fine, if it does then you will have problems with the dash cover fitting over the protruding tweeter. They ARE good speakers (about as good as a 3 1/2" can be anyways) just may not work well in a TR because of the design.

Also BE SURE to install some bass blockers on your 3 1/2"s so they don't tear themselves up trying to reproduce frequencies they weren't made to handle.

The screws for the dash cover are torx head & I just use a flexible shaft on my power screwdriver to get at them. The screws are angled toward the back of the car, the reflection from the front windshield just makes it LOOK like they are angled toward it.

Doug C.

 

[GeneralB44]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the tips! It would definately suck to put in speakers and have them not fit! I had never even heard of bass blockers before - I looked them up on the web, pretty cool! Wish me luck!

Brendan

 

[GeneralB44]

I'm glad I posted here before trying to put the Rockford speakers in b/c the inner tweeter did extend above the mounting rim!

The only other 3 1/2" speakers I found were Infinity and the inner did seem to extend a little bit above as well.

Any recommendations for front speakers?

Will a larger speaker fit in the dash?

 

[TURBOV6]

Most of the 3.5" speakers ot there the tweeter does extend out passed the woofer cone, I tried the Eclipse 3.5" and got it to fit with the on dash too, there was allitle indention from the tweeter on the dash. I got a set of Altec-lansing 3.5" dual cone, sounds very inpressive for a dual cone speaker.

 

[JFH]

3.5 speakers

Brendan,
Go to www.sounddomain.com and but in your car information and it will tell you what speakers will fit. Good for people like me that don't know anything about stereo. Looks like they also have very good prices. Also www.mmxpress.com

John

 

[GNandTTA]

The Infinity's will fit fine if you make some brackets. The backstrap metal that comes with radios works well. Very simple to do.

 

[quickbrick]

i got the infinity kappas.they sound good.i did have to modify the dash cover a little.it would have been a lot better if the cars came with 4-6x9's instead of these worthless small speakers.