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Paul Lauth

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I have 6×9 Kickers S series for front.
Kicker 6.5 for the rear. Does anyone know if I'll need to buy adapters or will they fit as is? 2018 Taco TRD 4×4 Sport.
 
Paul Lauth said:
I have 6×9 Kickers S series for front.
Kicker 6.5 for the rear. Does anyone know if I'll need to buy adapters or will they fit as is? 2018 Taco TRD 4×4 Sport.
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You’ll want the wire harness for the Tacoma to the speakers. Don’t splice the wires. Crutchfield has them. I’m sure any local audio shop will have them as well.
 
Paul Lauth said:
Why not splice? Just curious.
And I should have specified, do I need mounting adapters?
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I should have specified. I wouldn’t splice wires on my truck when there is cleaner options like a harness adaptor.
You might be able figure out how to mount them without a mounting adaptor. I bought my kickers from crutchfield and they supplied the wire harness and the mounting adaptor for free. IIRC I had to modify the front one by drilling new holes but they worked.
 
I plugged the wires into the original harness from the Taco head unit, being consistent on neg and pos positions.

Works fine. But the proper way it what everyone above says.
 
Paul Lauth said:
Why not splice? Just curious.
And I should have specified, do I need mounting adapters?
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whippersnapper02 said:
Splicing is sloppy if you don't know what you're doing and even if you do you'll have to undo if you want to swap.

Yes you will need mounting adapters.
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I have spliced more times than I can even begin to count. BUT that was in older vehicles that usually had a tape deck or just a radio.
Either way works but splicing is sloppy.
And when a vehicle costs as much as these trucks do it’s best to do it right, especially for the nominal cost.
 
Bogunn said:
I have spliced more times than I can even begin to count. BUT that was in older vehicles that usually had a tape deck or just a radio.
Either way works but splicing is sloppy.
And when a vehicle costs as much as these trucks do it’s best to do it right, especially for the nominal cost.
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Older vehicles I’ve done it but most of those it was because some crack pot thought it was a good idea to splice and cut the adaptor off. Once it’s gone you might as well keep on splicing. If it had an OEM adaptor I’d go get a harness to plug it in vs cutting. They are easily available at this point.
 
OR17TRD said:
Older vehicles I’ve done it but most of those it was because some crack pot thought it was a good idea to splice and cut the adaptor off. Once it’s gone you might as well keep on splicing. If it had an OEM adaptor I’d go get a harness to plug it in vs cutting. They are easily available at this point.
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Definitely easily available now.
When I was putting in a lot of stereos back in the day there was no Amazon or parts sites to order from really.
You worked with what you had. Lol.
 
Bogunn said:
I have spliced more times than I can even begin to count. BUT that was in older vehicles that usually had a tape deck or just a radio.
Either way works but splicing is sloppy.
And when a vehicle costs as much as these trucks do it’s best to do it right, especially for the nominal cost.
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Yeah your right. Old habits die hard.
 
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