@Prof,
In the Wagon R, the hatch-door is a very convenient place for installing the rear speakers. I presume that is what you meant by the rear door. A very little bit of cutting (of the metal behind the plastic door-pad) is required if 6x9s (ovals) are installed. They are usually mounted on an MDF board. The plastic panel on the hatch door is removed, and the MDF board is fixed in place of the plastic board.
Installing speakers there keeps them out of the way of everything. The rears seats can be dropped/pushed back. No intrusion into boot space. And the speakers fire toward the front of the car. Ideally you should use 6x9s as you don't plan for a sub. 6x9s will give better bass than 6.5" speakers.
You might need to damp/strengthen the hatch door a bit so it doesn't jar/vibrate when bass notes are played. About 800/- to 1200/- worth of damping will be all that's required to keep vibrations away. The number-plate will definitely need to be damped (or isolated form the metal of the door with foam in between) as it vibrates like crazy with bass notes.
A friend of mine recently installed a Pio 2850, Alpine 4" coaxes (in front) and Alpine E type ovals in the back in his Wagon R. The total was within 13K, including install (& MDF board). He didn't damp the rear hatch (he doesn't play the music loud). The setup sounded quite good, for the money spent. A budget of 15K to 20K will get you a really good system, with B&W.
You may not get a lot of info from some of the manufacturer's websites. You'll need to get on the road and visit a couple of car accessory shops for some on-the-ground gyaan. Anything (speakers) from Alpine/Blaupunkt/HERTZ/JBL should sound fine. (I don't know if you get Hertz products in Lucknow.) HUs from Pioneer are pretty VFM. You can also consider Alpine and Blau.
As long as you stay away from Sony you should be OK. Visit a few dealers and listen to speakers and HUs from the various brands. And pick-up what you like. 6k-9K will get you a good HU (get ones with at least 2 pre-outs if you plan to add an amp later). And 10K to 12K will get you a good set of front & rear speakers. The front size is 4" (stock location in the dash). There is no stock provision for the rears, so we use the hatch door as mentioned above. A really good installer will be able to fix 5.25" or even 6 to 6.5" speakers in the front doors. These will sound a lot better than the 4", but getting them installed well (and damped well) will be difficult without a good installer.
Last edited by hydrashok : 18th April 2007 at 23:37.
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