I have a 2004 Dakota Quad Cab, i want to replace my speakers but not sure what speakers are best. But My main "Wondering" is that the repair manual i bought says that my truck has 6 speakers. 2 in front doors, 1 in the back doors. Are they all the same size and the same speakers? I'm not trying to take off my door panel until i have the new speakers and replacing them. Oh also, do you guys have any recommendations for single din's with pop-out screen?

Thanks

 

Should be 6.5's in all 4 doors. If you have the infinity system you'll have a paid of 1" tweeters in the mirror panel area.

 

Yep, they're 6 1/2" round speakers in each door and if you have the Infinity system they'll be an extra very small tweeter on each front door. You may already know this but those Infinity systems are 2 ohm systems... the head unit, the amp, and the speakers are all designed around a 2 ohm system... most aftermarket speakers are going to be 4 ohm... as will be the typical aftermarket head unit...

My original 6.5" door speakers fell apart (literally) and my wife surprised me by having a local shop replace them with decent aftermarket speakers (just the 6.5", not the tiny tweeters). They sounded a tiny bit better than the blown original speakers but never sounded 'good'. Fast forward a couple years and I finally got around to installing a single din aftermarket head unit so I could connect my phone via Bluetooth... this was just about a month ago... after some research I found out about the limitations of the 2 ohm stock system vs a 4 ohm aftermarket system.

Long story short - you need to replace everything if you're going to upgrade your system. Sound is going to be horrible if you try to run 4 ohm speakers with the stock head unit and stock amp... and if you replace the head unit without replacing or bypassing the stock amp then it still won't sound good as the amp is designed to drive 2 ohm speakers.

I ended up replacing the stock head unit with an inexpensive refurbished JVC head unit off Amazon ($63), kept the 6.5" Polk Audio speakers my wife got a few years back (that never sounded worth a crap), and built a wiring harness that bypassed the stock infinity 2 ohm amp. Just using the weak head unit amp my system sounds 100% better than before... the key is really to bypass the stock amp. Do an internet search on 'Dakota infinity amp' (or something like that) and you'll run into a forum thread on what connectors to buy and how to wire up the harness you'll need to bypass the amp. The amp is behind the panel by your feet on the front passenger side... bypassing it is straight-forward and simple once you build the harness.

I replaced the head unit a few days before I completed the amp bypass... the sound, especially the bass, coming from the speakers is totally different once you bypass the amp...

 

agree on bypassing the amp. It's a pair of subaru connectors as I recall. Super easy to do.