Subwoofer Location in Eurovan

[houtxguy]

Anyone with any suggestions on where to place a subwoofer? Thinking about powered tube under the back bench seat, but wondered if others had ideas. Thanks in advance.

Pics and/or other thoughts welcome.

[TDCTDI]

If you had one in a sealed container, you could mount it under the van & port it in, much like the rear heater.
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[Zeitgeist 13]

Depends on which interior you have, but if putting it under the rear seat on an MV/Weekender, then it might make sense to attach it to the bottom of the seat itself, rather than the floor...since the entire seat rolls forward on those. The passenger seat pedestal has room for a small sub.
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'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[wildenbeast]

This guy seemed to have it figured out. If you click "see original listing", you can check out photos of his $1200 setup with a tube under the back bench seat: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-Volkswagen-EuroVan-M...663.l10137
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[markcm2]

My buddy recently bought a 2002 with a small sub under the passenger seat, it sounds great. I have a blaupunkt powered sub waiting to be installed under the front passenger seat as well, once I decide where/how to route the power and signal wires.

[JFBx]

This year I installed a Nakamichi sub under the passenger seat (which is now a swivel seat by CNC in the UK). All new speakers (infinity brand) in the doors, dash and rear. I picked up a used golf City headunit for almost nothing and ran a GREAT ebay harness. I mounted the volume control for the sub in the otherwise useless pocket above the cigarette lighter and the bluetooth adapter is there, too. The sub is powered by the house battery.

One thing, the blue LED on the sub volume control is very bright so I put a drop of black paint on it so now it more of a halo. If I could do it again, I'd swap out the blue LED for a dimmer red one.

Since the photos were taken, the trim piece under the radio has been installed and a cubby installed, too. Many thanks to the folks on the forums who routinely post great, helpful information.

--jb

https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-NAKAMICHI-NBF80A-8-3-...Sw4CFY7d7e

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Audi-Volkswagen-Factory-R...Sw9ENZpXfW

[Joshwa]

I like your hazard relocation to add the oil gauge, that is color matched no less. They do that over in Europe to add a boost gauge there.
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[JFBx]

Thanks. The added trans temp gauge is one of the many mods I stole from more knowledgeable forum posters. Here the thread on that mod:

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7492658...auge/page2

--jb

[markcm2]

[Zeitgeist 13]

Nice work, and yet another mod I have to implement in my efforts to keep up with you.

Do you ever plan on installing a swivel on that pedestal?
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'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[markcm2]

[Zeitgeist 13]

Are you able to run the seat heater wiring up through the middle of the swivel with the sub there?

I've been contemplating how to build a modular set of removable cabinets for a while now.
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Casey--

'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[markcm2]

[vineetp]

[VanGeek]

While the center console and passenger seat were out for other projects, I added an under-seat subwoofer. Depending on your head unit and amplifier configuration, this may be a relatively easy install.

I found a complete "10 inch" subwoofer unit with built-in amplifier on Ebay. Reviews on similar units were mostly positive. Like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166104744815? Shop around, make an offer, and you can likely acquire for under $80.

As Markcm2 shared below, just fish the +12V, ampilifer-on signal, and RCA left-right wires underneath the carpet between the seat and console. Find a +12V source (I tied into the aux fuse panel I installed) and snake the amplifer-on and RCA cable up to the radio area. My Alpine CDE172BT has an amplifier-on signal and subwoofer outputs on the rear. Make connections at the subwoofer under the seat and add a ground between the subwoofer and one of the seat pedestal bolts and Bob's your uncle.

For my purposes, the aftermarket underseat subwoofer added just the additional amount of semi-thumpy bass I wanted. The Alpine unit has separate audio settings for the subwoofer intensity which generally negates the need for a separate remote control knob (although the unit comes with one). You're not going to rattle the windows in the car next to you at a stop light, and I'm not an audio expert, but it sounds much better to me and more like the high-end audio in a modern luxury vehicle.