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Yeah, I had to lose the tray. Yes sir - it sounds good. Low frequencies have no problem travelling through materials like seats. Plenty of boom for me. My son likes even more punch than I do, and it works for him in the same spot on his 6.0L crew cab.
They sure list most specs than most, but the dimensions: (LxWxH): 24" x 7" x 15" shown I'll assume the 7" width is taken from the widest part being the bottom. It also looks like the speaker is a dual cone at 4 ohm like the Ford stock units. I hate to loose the tool tray...even though I really don't keep that much in it...and will assume it won't fit in there without removing it given your installation pictures. Is there any space between the speaker and the back of the seat...I can see issues if it sits right up against it when turned up some...
Yes, 7" at the bottom. I could not get it to fit with the tray in place. The top of the speaker box needed to fit under the bulge in the back panel as you see in the pics, for the seat to fully latch.
The speaker grill prevents any contact between the speaker itself and the seat material. That said, I'm not much of an audiophile. If it is touching at full volume, I have not noticed it with the music I play - but I like 80's rock, so there's that...
Original factory headunit. The plastic tabs that hold the face to the chassis broke and the face fell off.
Interesting...that must be a head unit from another year model as both our 2000 trucks are different than that one. The one in the F350 is about to come out for the Atoto install though...
Interesting...that must be a head unit from another year model as both our 2000 trucks are different than that one. The one in the F350 is about to come out for the Atoto install though...
Really? It’s what came with the truck when I bought it.
I've done some research over the weekend and have come to the conclusion that these under the seat type units may be the way to go. I've measured and it appears they should fit fine under there with room to boot. I also think they will fit fine behind the seat without having to modify or remove the tool tray. Since the spaces under the seat are on each side with that hump in the center, I may look at 2...one for each side. I could also go a little bigger with a single behind the seat, but I've read that the 2 smaller units will out perform and sound better. I need to look into if they are are dual voice coil speakers. These are sealed boxes...versus a ported "bazooka tube" unit as also attached...so from my understanding they should work better for my application. The only concern I have with these under the seat boxes is they are purdy shallow at 2.5"-3", and the boxes are small, so hopefully the sound is still there. I'll do some more research on that, but in looking back at the oem stock factory subwoofers...like in our Ford Edge...they are rather shallow also, though they are large in area.
I wish these trucks had the flip up back seat bottoms like the Excursion has as it would make installation and/or access much easier...makes me wonder if anyone has done a swap. That's where the amplifier and DVD entertainment center for the TV's are mounted in the wife's Excursion. It makes it easy to to vacuum, adjust the amp, etc.
Those are compact for sure, but quite a bit less power, at 100W RMS. I feel the one I'm running is just adequate to fill a crewcab with good bass at 300W RMS, 1000W peak. Might be worth a try though with Amazon's good return policy.
Those are compact for sure, but quite a bit less power, at 100W RMS. I feel the one I'm running is just adequate to fill a crewcab with good bass at 300W RMS, 1000W peak. Might be worth a try though with Amazon's good return policy.
I've been on Rockville's website this morning looking, and I'm seeing more options...some of which are dual voice coil, which is what I want. The one I linked above would include 2 units...
Really? It’s what came with the truck when I bought it.
But you didn't buy your truck new in 2000, did you?
To the best of my recollection, the single disc unit that you have was not offered in the Super Duty in model year 2000.
However, your unit was offered in the Ford Ranger in 2000.
In 2000 and earlier times, the single disc player offered in the Super Duty also came with a cassette tape player, and the 6 disc changer offered in that era of Super Duties was a remote mounted changer using magazines of 6 discs in a carrier.
In 2001, an in dash 6 disc cd changing head unit was offered in the Super Duty, which eliminated the remote magazine changer, that was 80 watts instead of the 60 watts that your single disc player is, and the cassette tape player was eliminated from this in dash changer, which had a lot more buttons.
It could be that the Ranger single disc player was eventually offered in later years of the Super Duty (2002-2003), but I think the more premium Ford / Visteon radio head units where equalized and powered to match the interior cab volume and number of speakers being powered, even while all Visteon head units were plug and play interchangeable using Ford's unique U pin handle release system cradle and harness mating interface.
If true, then while the face plate of, say, a 2003 Super Duty single disc may appear identical to that of a Ranger, the wattage and equalization may be different. And if a single disc player was offered in 2002 and 2003 Super Duties, prior to the dash board change in 2005 that straightened and crisped the previously rounded and bulbous design cues, then your radio could have been a couple of years newer than your truck, installed by a previous owner as an upgrade to delete the cassette player and have more CD space instead, which was a popular mod that people did 20 years ago.
