sapphire stereo

[bigbore]

I have a sapphire XVI am/fm town and country stereo does anybody know where they put the speakers? I looked in the technical stuff on the site but no manual on the XVI or any stereo speaker placement. Iam not looking for just anywhere but where vw placed them. not a bad find it was in a 72 bus I got for free and the radio works and its right for my 71 westy so far the rare goodies I have gotten from these free bus has been a working clock and this hard to come by radio not bad.

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[barefootwestie]

I believe the only place that VW installed the speakers were in the dash right above the radio.
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[jettalu]

I think you're right. I was looking under the dash the other day and found the single speaker I never knew was there. Let me know if you're interested in it.

[bigbore]

You are missing the point this is a stereo you know 2 speakers the factory did not install sapphire radios the dealers did there were install manuals but there is not one in the list of manuals on the samba. most likely they put one in the factory spot then a remote surface mount speaker or maybe in the kick panel I guess its possible they put them in the doors but I really didn't want to cut my door panels.
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[busdaddy]

I grabbed a sapphire stereo 8 track out of a 72 at a wrecking yard years ago and it had speakers in the front doors and rear side panels beside the rear seat (above the armrest I think), quadraphonic!
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[notchboy]

[Malokin Martin]

holy crap that is awesome! Lore of old says the silver ring button is for the rare flux capacitor.

[bigbore]

[ccpalmer]

[babysnakes]

dstefun wrote:

[notchboy]

I can totaly see the mechanic deciding where amd or asking the customer. Doors is the #1 guess.
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[bigbore]

[bigbore]

I have been looking through the gallery and found a couple of guys putting them here this looks nice I think I will punch a pattern of holes in the kick panel sense I have no grill covers for these speakers and it will look cleaner and no grill covers to kick off. Now to find the time to punch all those holes.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=223256
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[redbus Steve]

Another option (if you don't want to cut anything) would be to add a dual voice coil speaker in the stock dash location. A dual voice coil allows two speaker connections in one "space".

http://www.retrosoundusa.com/products/category/id/8

http://www.colomar.com/Shavano/dvc_spkr_wiring.html
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[bigbore]

yes I have seen those from retro sound and I like the idea but these old radios need 8 to 10 ohm speakers and the ones they sell are mostly (if not all) are 4 ohm. new radios these days are driving 4 ohm speakers un like the old ones. I did find a good web site for replacement stock speakers.
http://www.turnswitch.com/speakers.htm
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