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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 11:25 AM
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I just pulled the stock speakers out of the sail panels and i knew that it was blown, but i had no idea it was this bad. This is hooked up to my sony home system and it is playing the bassiest track i could find, this is turned about 1/4 the way up, because anything more just cut the speaker off.
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 01:19 PM
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Pic's not so clear, but I see lots of metal, where's the surround?
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 01:33 PM
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should have plugged it into the wall...
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 01:47 PM
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acutally, the cutting off demonstrates a limitation of your home system not being able to handle the low impeadance of the speaker, and if your protection circuitry in the home system is sub-par, you could even fry your outputs by doing this.
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 01:51 PM
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It looks like the button and foam are missing.
What happened?
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 02:06 PM
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Foam degrades over time, and does not stand up well to abuse. I've seen that happen several times.
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 09:57 PM
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I know foam degrades over time...but damn.
It looks like the foam was pulled out.
It normally takes a lot longer than a few years.
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when i got that sucker out, the foam was all torn up, but it was still attached . This isnt the first attempt to play through that speaker though. When i first hooked it up, i played that same song through the same cd player. Thats when i wish i had the camera. The half way torm up foam went flying everywhere. it looked like it exploded. so yes, the surround was on it when it came out, chevy didnt get THAT bad of a speaker.
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My door speakers looked like that. The foam surround was tattered, and by the time I got the speakers out of the doors, there wasn't much left.
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