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Hey, wait. It says you have an explorer sport and I think I mentioned this above that the sport (any 2 door model) has different dimensions under the back seat than the 4 door and this box is designed for the 4 DOOR... I want to make sure this box gets used and not thrown away. That's the...

I CAN take a photo with my dit cam, but it is just sitting in the garage. It isn't installed in teh explorer now or I wouldn't need to give it away. I'll email you a photo if you send me your email address. Mine is janikphoto@yahoo.com if you want to ask for photos. As far as the question...

Components will sound much better to an audiophile than coaxials (unless you are talking about coaxial components, but that's another story), but I don't know your level of perfection when it comes to music. It is like any other quality versus quantity issue. Is the extra quality worth the...

rockford 10" would be a decent woofer. Really the woofer/box combo is more important to spend money on than just considering the woofer alone. A cheap woofer can sound better than an expensive one if the box is perfectly matched to the cheap woofer... Versus listening to the expensive woofer...

I had a smaller amp in my wife's Explorer and I mounted it under the 40% side of the 60/40 rear seat. seat still folded down fine...

Oh, and you'll notice a big difference just doing the front speakers if you don't want to spend extra $$$ on the rears too. You could actually get by with a decent set of matching brand coaxial speakers for the rear if you wanted. Same brands as above, but since the tweet is mounted in with...

You can almost always improve the quality over ANY factory system. I would suggest similar as above... like infinity, boston acoustics, focal or mb quart component speakers (also known as seperates). They will come as a tweeter, midrange (6 1/2 or 5 1/4) and a crossover box. They will not...

This link should work for infinity 6x8's at crutchfield: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-QIxuYT3LwYt/cgi-bin/prodview.asp?wm=cl&I=1086802cf&s=0&cc=01 And this should be the link to the 150hz/4 ohm "bass blockers" they sell...

yeah, the eddie bauer has extra stuff that may not let you tap in like I did. I popped open the rear door panels, found the wire color to the speakers and then located those same wires in the wire loom right before it went into the doors. This way I could tap into it without having to run...

Right and Wrong. Headunits these days are building extra features like a crossover directly into them. However, you are wrong about eternal amps having passive crossovers in them. They have "active" crossovers in them. They are powered crossovers that are cutting out certain frequencies...

I put 6 1/2 and tweets in my wife's explorer and mounted them to an adaptor plate since the stock hole is 6x8. And YES, TURN YOUR BASS EQ CONTROL DOWN SOME!!! And YES, PUT SOME SORT OF CROSSOVER ON YOUR MIDS AND HIGHS!!!!!!!! They aren't really meant to play bass and WILL distort when you...

Yes and no. My wife kept her stock stereo (not eddie bauer, but still stock ford) and I had an amp with high level inputs on it. I jumped the inputs off the rear door speakers and ran the remote turn-on wire off an ignition-on lead. I think it was the same ignition-on lead that went to the...

I'd get a new head unit first. That'll be about $250 installed and you can use the last $50 for new front or rear coaxials off of ebay. Maybe some bostons or if infinity. You should be able to install the coaxials yourself (for free) if you can do basic car/truck repair and you got a 6x8...

It was made for a 4 door, and yes it does matter unfortunately. My sister-in-law has a 2 door that was the same body style as our 98 was. I looked in there to see if she could use it, but under the back seat has a different shape. It will work in any 4 door explorer from around 1995? to about...

Yeah, I've always liked pioneers. Well, except for their 1996 to 2000 era of total crap. But they are back on top again and have some nice models. If the alpine doesn't have an internal amp, that is actually a big plus if you planned on using external; amps anyway. That just means there...

Well, you can and can't... You will have to run some new wiring, but won't have to completely rewire EVERYTHING. If you haven't installed at least a few amps before, you may wanna get help on this one though...

I've got a custom made sub box for a 1998 explorer with tan interior. We got a new explorer and the box won't fit because the new model was redesigned and doesn't have the same dimensions under the rear seat. I'm giving it away for free cause it's just too nice to throw away. You can pick...

Sorry, but our explorer, like most, has a cd player in the dash, but no changer to hold multiple cd's. You must have an eddie bower edition or something...

No, no photos. Surprising since I am a photographer. Anyway, my system with 4 10" JL's isn't in an explorer... We just slipped one 10" under the rear seat of the explorer (my wife's car). It filled out the bottom end quite a bit, but didn't make it into a boomin' system that could be...

Either way, my answer is the same, though you never said anything about a cd CHANGER the first time that I can remember. You said cd player, which implies the cd unit in the dash. Though they are both technically cd players, you need to ask for a cd changer when getting this repaired or...

Yeah, my audio control x-over has a subsonic filter for that very reason. And your sub with good spider and xmax comment supports what a few others have said about getting a woofer specifically designed for a ported box and not just throwing any old speaker in there. Old cerwin vega woofers...

Yes, a differnet unit will most likely sound much better too. But if you want to keep it stock, you should ask around if anyone on the board has a stock cd player they will sell. Maybe you can get one for $75 to $150 which is what labor to look inside your bad one will probably be... Have you...

I think partsexpress.com carries some thicker gauges. And just try to run it with as few splices as possible, so hook it to the battery, put a fuse holder close to the batt and then run it straight to the amp. It's better to run smaller wire with less crap in the way than it is to run bigger...

a lot of talk going on here, but no one mentioned building a transmission line box yet... Just joking because you'd probably need to build a weird-looking contraption that would fill up the back of any suv or truck bed if you were using 15's, but it's the same technology that the bose wave radio...

One more question... You guys that had problems with your switch: Did it work very poorly/intermittent or just not at all until you cleaned the contacts and bent the metal thingy? Cause mine won't work at all through the switch which leads me to believe that it is the relay that is bad. I...

Sorry it took me so long to reply, but it's been a busy week. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm gonna check for the relay and also try to take the switch apart following the suggestions above. And I know the lines aren't clogged because it will spray when I send jumper wires over to the...

Well, both ideas seem like they would be good to try. I'll hunt down the relay, though I don't think it's a mud-related issue. My wife doesn't off-road too much. It probably just wore out. And if the new relay doesn't work, I'll try spraying some electronics cleaner in the control switch to...

OK, the washer won't spray anymore when the button is hit, but it's still got a full fluid resevoir and all the fuses look good (though I didn't know exactly which fuse controlled this feature they ALL looked ok). So, I thought the motor might be bad and tried sending 12 volts directly to it...

I think you don't have to talk to ford about those little metal circles cause I remember the gasket having them too. We got out stuff from ford and the new one had it. It guess some slipped into the pan somehow... Since not all of the fluid drains when you change it (some stays in the...

Yeah, like I said, I remember tearing the whole thing apart in no time, but I also remember my wife saying that the new parts were way too expensive, so I'll look further into this whole metal part thing now that I know it's cheap... Thanks...

I don't think they were laughing AT you. They were laughing with you 'cause it was really hard for them to find, too. And when I changed the trans fluid on my wife's '98 there wren't really any metal shavings but a bunch of sludge in the bottom of the pan. It was like a clay or gooey silt...

Why are people saying the new part is stronger than the original part? Does ford sell a better quality replacement part?!? When we were going to fix ours, my wife said that ford would only sell the whole thing and it was like $150 or $200. I'm glad to hear that you can just get the broken...

That's an interesting and hopefully correct theory cause I don't want a wrecked trans. I know I shouldn't have waited so long, but it was running silky-smooth the whole time even up to the fluid/filter change... No it hesitates for a sec or so when it first goes into reverse... It's only been...

I guess it's just casue we got a basic engine without mods to block things, but like I said above, it only took a little while. Maybe an hour for all six. I hope the rest of you have better luck at it next time. I don't think I'll have a next time. The vehicle is just about to hit 100k and...

I just changed the plugs on a 1998 v6 and it didn't take too long. The driver's side was harder 'cause there is a fuel rail or something in the way, but I managed. The passanger side was a piece of cake. I'm sure that the v8's are even more crammed in there though. I don't think I'd want to...

Yeah, and after doing a search on the recall number that someone listed, I'm sure that is the prob with the vehicle. Anyone know if this is going to get worse or potentially damage the engine. It doesn't get very cold here in Texas and the trouble code only happened on the two coldest days of...

I was gonna start my own thread on a trans question (maybe I still will since this isn't the exact same prob) but I thought y'all may have an answer for me too. The wife's 1998 v6 explorer has 95k miles on it and I just changed the trans fluid and filter recently. Everything ran super smooth...

Sorry, trckmagic, but you'd never spot this explorer in the sea of other white ones. It looks like almost every other white explorer and only has a few stereo mods and matching (20%) tint on the front windows. Everything else is VERY stock looking... Since it's actually my wife's vehicle, I'd...

Yeah, as fun as it might be to explode a car, hopefully you won't ACTUALLY do that. I'm assuming that you have insurance and that would TOTALLY be insurance fraud. But it would be fun! An easier way is to find a wire in the engine bay and strip back some insulation. We see cars burnt to the...

I saw that as a tip on an 80's tv car show. They took off the air cleaner after the engine was hot and revved it while spraying a little water into the carb with a spray bottle. It supposedly helped some. In theory it could help clean out a little carbon, but you don't want to use too much...