Pontiac G6 Front Speaker Installation
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2015
- How to install the front door speaker on a Pontiac G6. Mine is a 2008 G6 but i believe most years are the same. Be sure not to destroy the factory speaker once removed as you will need most of it to mount the replacement speaker. Be sure to check with crutchfield in the link below or amazon to see if the speaker you want to install will fit. The G6 requires a speaker that is not very deep, in my case a Polk Slimline Speaker.
Crutchfield link:
www.crutchfield.com/m_399/Car-...
Link to removing the door panel:
• How to Replace Front I...
link to Pontiac G6 rear speaker installation:
• Pontiac G6 Rear Speake...
Link to Pontiac G6 Amp installation
• Pontiac G6 Amplifier I... 
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Great vid! I just replaced all 4 Speakers in 06 G6 . The left rear didn’t work at all and the fronts were both blown . The idea for modifying the old front speakers was genius! Worked perfectly! Thanks for sharing. It took me about 4 hours to complete the whole job.
Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad it worked out for you. 👍🏼
Thanks for the video. My son's g6 blew out the front speakers. I really appreciate you showing the how to video. It will help us in our replacement project.
Your very welcome. I'm glad it helped.
Thanks for the video. I just did this project today on my 2008 with 252,000 miles on it. They factory speakers in the front finally went.
the directions worked pretty well...Note that I did not have to disconnect the door handle on my 2008 G6. Instead, I twisted it, pulled it back through, and supported the panel on a milk crate while I changed out the front speakers. One thing of note, that little rivet you have to push in and pull out on the panel itself is VERY important to fitting the panel back. Be careful with it! Also, be very sure that when you put the panel back on, 1) all of the foam pieces stay in the panel, and 2) you set the panel in the sill first....I had problems with the driver's door. I also had problems with some of the panel rivets, thanks to GM's finest smashing them years ago. Door panel still fits pretty well.
If you're watching this video to replace the front speakers, I thought they rushed through the wiring part. Disconnecting the wiring is easy for everything but the speaker itself. Use a flat screwdriver to remove that. Push it right down into the connector and pry it back up slowly....Kind of dig it out towards you. Be careful with this, you do NOT want to break that connector (or any others)!!! Don't worry, the wiring part is easy as hell.
Metra makes a bracket to connect speakers to replace the bracket that connects to the speaker and the door panel. Use that brand not scosch. Also, Metra makes a wiring harness adapter. (Bracket: Metra 82-3006 6" to 6-3/4" Speaker Adapter for GM Multi 05-Up......Wiring adapter: Metra 72-4568 Speaker Harness for Selected General Motor Vehicles)....The wiring adapter is highly recommended. I'm no wiring expert, so these things make it simple and better than trying to figure out what wires to cut...Crutchfield told me there was no wiring adapter. I bought mine at Best Buy in Brighton, MI.... Last, the speakers to replace are 6.5's in the front. Use nothing else!!! Don't get cute and upgrade to a 6.75"...The brackets are pretty specific, and you don't want to mess around for .25".
I replaced the factory speakers with Kicker 43CSC654 6-1/2" 2-way car speakers from Best Buy....They sound pretty nice with the factory stereo. They are 4 ohm, and can handle an amp if you ever upgrade. What I wish I would have done, was replaced the tweeters that are up in the little triangle piece on our G6. They are garbage. You can buy a kit of "components" that give you the 2 door speakers, and 2 tweeters....I think Metra makes a wiring adapter for the tweeters too.
Another thing I did was take the foam rubber gasket off of the original speaker brackets....You need something like this to keep them "stuck" to the door panel and to eliminate vibration...I tried installing these without, and the speakers vibrated....
I watched the videos for doing the back speakers......Not looking forward to that, so they'd better make it a few more years!
Thanks man! I got a monsoon speaker system in my g6 and the same speaker went out, but i got 3 speakers on 1 door. I bet when i replace my 2 bigger ones, its gonna sound SWEET! I love my car.
Just picked up the same speakers for $30 on 5mile app, watched your video and went about the same method. Thank you, sounds good. Now to tackle those 6x9s...
Your video saved me so much time and frustration. The Pontiac g6 was not made to be fixed for some reason. My machanic hates it when I bring this car into his shop. A simple job requires taking the car apart and repurposing old parts. It's terrible.
Thanks. Im glad the video helped you out. This car certainly does test my patients at times.
Yep. Radiator required disassembling entire front of the car, and while it was so opened up went ahead and replaced the failed oil filter adapter gasket.
You were a huge help when it came to which wires were positive and negative. Just did the driver side today doing passenger side tomorrow thanks for the help
No problem, glad i could help.
Thanks so much! Did this on my Aura, the doors are slightly different but the speakers are identical. I ordered new frames and they didn't fit the speaker or the door. I used your idea of cutting out the speaker. I didn't trim the lip around the edge and the speaker fit perfectly in the door. Drilled two pilot holes, secured it and put it back together. I bought cheap Kenwoods as replacements and I found they fit fine like this. Not having speakers work is maddening. I appreciate your sharing these tips.
John Kruglinski your welcome. Glad the video helped!
Your welcome. I'm glad the video helped.
So I followed the guide and replaced my wifes. I didn't buy nice polks but the generic offbrand speakers I got are still better then the blown tin cans that were in it. Thanks for the video brother.
Worked for me. Bought foam sheet and cut my own foam gaskets. Used 1mm sheet metal screws. Worked great man thanks...
J Furey Glad it worked for ya. My Polks are still going strong in my Pontiac, it’s my daily driver any needless to say my speakers get plenty of use with no rattle at all.
Not all heros wear capes! Thanks, I'm going home after work to do this had the same problem with the driver side speaker working off and on in mine. Very helpful video! 👍
Thank you. Hope it goes well for you, good luck.
most heroes doesn't wear cape, fyi
Thank you buddy I appreciate the informative videos! I am going to be doing this on front and back sometime today!
Thanks for watching. Hope the videos help!
Same basic procedure for the 07-13 Silverado door speakers. Altering and reusing those brackets is the way to go. Good video.
Thanks for the compliment.
Came across this while looking up gm amps. What most people don't understand is that foam and speaker mount serves a purpose in the acoustics from the speaker. Second each speaker is independently driven from the amp at 2ohms. common replacements are 4ohms which means half the power/sound of the original. Third it is a pain in the butt but gm wired each independent speaker as its own for frequency. So basically if you replaced the 2ohms with 4 ohms your truly only getting half the sound and response.
Great vid...duplicated it perfectly in my sons G6.
Lee Bowers thanks, glad it helped.
Nice vid, thanks for the upload... My speakers crapped out. They barely have any sound coming out of them. Going to throw some pioneers in just so I can listen to tunes again..
Thanks, you gave me some great ideas!
Thanks for the great video and tip, getting ready to do my 2009 Saturn Aura. Front speakers have failed.
Tim McClure thanks for the compliment. Good luck, hope the video helps. 👍🏻
Awesome video thanks for sharing it if it weren’t for you I’d have to buy some new speaker mounts but I came across your genius video and followed your advice and it works awesome Bro thank you 😊
Thanks, I’m glad the video helped you out. If you decide to do the back speakers i have a video for that too and i also have a video for installing an inline amp, all for the Pontiac G6.
@@LoFiMofo I sure am intrested Bro
Thanks for this video, it helped confirm i'm not crazy for trying to reuse the harness. GM was wild for this design. The 07 Saturn Aura is excatly the same.
You’re welcome. Glad it helped you out. Most things are identical between the Pontiac G6 and Saturn Aura. Just drove the Pontiac yesterday, speakers still booming like a champ. 🔊🔊🔊
@@LoFiMofo Good to know, thank you! I'm honestly shocked that the stock speakers sounded as good as they did, because they felt and looked so cheap. I can't wait to see what she sounds like after the change the other speakers 🔊
@@Kjgairborne I have other videos on replacing the rear speakers and also adding an inline amplifier to the stock radio if you decide to do those. With the rear speakers if you do those it’ll take a bit, might not have to remove the rear seat like i did depending on your model as you’ll see in the comments.
Merci pour votre vidéo! Pour une Chevrolet Cobalt 2009, côté conducteur le (A) + est gris et le (B) - est brun. Côté passager, c'est (A) + vert foncé et (B) - vert pâle. J'ai utilisé des haut-paleurs JVC CS-J620, ce fut parfait.
When I changed the front speakers in my 08 G6, the driver side speaker housing was different with 4 screws holding the speaker in it. So I was able to easily change it as it was a direct fit with my new one.
The passenger side however, the housing and speaker were one so I had to modify. I took some shears and just cut around it then forced screws into the plastic. Worked out quite well.
weird mine both was with screws
Awesome video! Procedure worked great.
DeathK thanks!
Thanks
Do you have the monsoon system, I just got mine used and it just has the factory stereo
Nice job
Wil Reyes thank you
It is a very expensive car to begin with so what do you expect in the way of speakers?
Does your car have the monsoon system? I have an 06 g6 gtp coupe with monsoon system (amp) and want to replace the door speakers and 6x9's. Did you use the OEM speaker wire? Head Unit? Do you think I'd be good with just replacing the speakers and installing head unit without any issues, thanks!
I have the factory head unit and used the factory wires with the new speakers and it sounds great. You should have no issues installing new speakers with the factory wires and head unit. Good luck!
Noticing, you reused the original wiring to the speaker (minus the OEM connector) do you still have sound from your pillar speaker (the tweeter ontthe inside from the mirror.)
Yes, it is still working. There is a separate pair of wires that go to the tweeter that i had to unplug to remove the door panel. Just don't forget to reconnect them when you put the panel back on.
I wasn't talking about changing the impedance,I was asking where the tweeters are separate from for speakers I was wondering if they both were 8ohm so was 4 for the front once both hooked, and for the front driver side and rear passenger side they both kinda sizzled out at same time so I don't know if something burned out happened when was at full stop and never came back ...I was cranking lot that day on hoti day, so I'm thinking out burned the stereo, but left for front right rear just don't make sense to me why out would be like that,I want to thank you for everything I asked you... think stereo has burned just makes no sense 2 opposite sides
JT griffin oh, i see. Well it is quite possible that the stereo could be fried seeing all those things happened at once. The tweeters have their own set of wires back to the head unit i believe,but i can't be 100 percent certain without digging up head unit schematic first. These stock G6 heads don't have a whole lot of balls. I've been wanting to install an inline amp to help mine out,just gotta scrape up the cash first.
What kind of speaker did you buy ?
I can see the difference between new and old
How did you wire it? I noticed there's a harness that doesn't fit the new speaker. Do you just cut it off? If so what do you do with the four wires when the new speaker only needs 2?
After some minimal research, I believe 2 of the wires are positive and the remaining 2 wires are negative. You wire both of the positive wires to the positive terminal and the negative wires to the negative terminal. So you will have two wires on one terminal and two wires on the other terminal.
Go to Best Buy. Metra makes a wiring adapter that connects to the factory harness...No cutting, connecting, or soldering! Just did mine.
How do I remove the original wires? Do I take off the little gray tab that's there and then pull the wires?
Yes, you remove the connector going to the speaker and then you just cut the connect off leaving only the two wires. Then connect those directly to the new speaker, being sure to observe + and -, by either using crimp on "spade" connectors or soldering.
You needed to reuse the factory foam insulator to get the midbass into the interior.
I contemplated doing that but honestly they sound great even without the foam.To re-use the foam you'd probably have to glue it onto the face of the speaker.
just attempted this on my coupe but purchased some speaker mounting adapters. turns out the sedan and coupe models have different brackets...
I have a coupe too, is this in the video a sedan?
The coupe and convertible have the same?
@@roamizane1484 I think they do but I'd ask someone who knows more, try g6performance or g6ownersclub
do you have a video for the passenger side?
No, but the installation procedure is the same.
They make after market speaker mounting brackets.. lol
lol I use a blue tooth speaker
my g6 has 6 speakers did you just by pass the tweeters that's by the mirrors
JT griffin no, i left the tweeters connected. They have wires that go to them separate from the wires that go to the speaker.
I'm sorry to ask another question,I haven't had mine apart but front left stopped working along with the back right... also wanted to know if front running 2 ohm, or are the 8 ohm front 4... Ok what you think on front left and right back stopped working not blown..thanksi for quick response
JT griffin i wouldn't change the impedance (if it's 4 ohm stay with 4 ohm ,ect.) As for the front left and right rear both not working that could either be a connection issue behind the stereo or at the speakers themselves. In my case the speaker itself went out so that's very possible. The rear speakers are difficult to change so set aside some time for that. I also have a video for that install too.
How many watts are those speakers?
55 wattS RMS
What size speakers are those
Polk 6.5”
i didn't see crap about the wiring. On my 06 G6 GTP the rear speaker wires have like 90000 different colored wires don't really know why or what or how.
You possibly have the Monsoon system then, which is not what was stock in my G6.
Why is the speaker so quiet? Get the wrong impedance? Done happened twice with my wife’s rear deck speakers. First set was 4ohm and second set was supposed to be 2ohm but we’re 3ohm. I have some AC Delco Original 6x9 component speakers coming they’re supposed to be 2ohm just in the wrong packing trays
Mine sounds fine, can’t really tell that in the video. Are you saying yours aren’t loud enough? I also have a 400 watt Kenwood amp which helped a ton. I have a separate video on that if you want to check it out.
my car g6 ypu only un screw the speaker haha gtp with monsoon
Damn you have to break it? I was hoping I could just swap 'em out. Lame... I'm not very good at this stuff so I'd worry I couldn't get it working if I tried so i'm staying away I guess. Driver speaker went out though
Jordon H no you can get stock brackets with openings for 6.5" speakers so you don't have to break them.
All the speakers in my g6 are dead. I just watched your rear speaker video and said hell no... Figured id just do the fronts instead. Watched this front speaker install video. Wtf is wrong with GM! Every vehicle I've ever owned, I just pop the speaker cover off, unscrew 3 - 4 screws and screw in the new one! This is straight bullshit. I'm selling the fucking car, I've had it.
I think GM must of found the absolute cheapest speakers they could find. Mine died after a couple years so I replaced all four.
Yeah, it was a huge improvement installing these Polks in the front and the JBL 6X9’s in the back. I also have the video where i added a 400 watt Kenwood amp. Is a great sounding system, i gave the car to my daughter and her friends are blown away when they get in and hear it. 🔊🔊🔊
Good video but all that just to change the speakers!? smh im just gonna pay someone to do it lol
WEST WHITTIER 562 SOUTHEAST L.A. Thanks. Yeah, they don't make anything easy to fix or replace on these cars anymore.
You dont have to do that if you just going back to using the factory speakers.