Audio - standard Mk2 Golf speakers and factory speaker sizes

April 27, 2020, 06:33:44 PM

The standard speakers fitted from factory are as follows.

Dash: 3.5" (8cm) behind plastic grills.

Early cars and lower spec cars without door speakers came with a pair of 3.5" or 8cm dual cone speakers behind plastic grills.

Aftermarket 2 way upgrade:

For cars with Door speakers the dash speakers were replaced with component tweeters in a plastic shell so they occupy the same dimensions of the standard speakers.

If you ever have to remove the windscreen or the dash I recommend upgrading the speakers at that time as they're a real pig to do with both in situ.

Door: 5.25" (13cm) in pods within the door bins.

Some Golfs were luck enough to come with the VW 6 speaker "Active" system. This put a 5" speaker in the door and seperate tweeter in the dash as mentioned above. The door pods replaced the cubby comparments that came in 87 onward cars. Pre-87 the door bins din't have these cubbies.

Rear: 6x4" oval speakers were fitted in the parcel shelf supports

Paper dual cone oval speakers were fitted in the rear. Fitted from underneath on 4 locating dowels on each of the parcel self supports. Due to the space hear upgrades are limited in terms of size, but there are many manufacturers that offer quality direct replacement items.

Fader:
As the mind to late 80s was when In Car Entertainment began to take off as a 'thing' the car radios fitted in some of the early cars were very basic. As such they only had two speaker outputs for left and right. To combat this and to add the lucury of rear speakers some early cars were fitted with a fader switch.

Taking the left and right outputs from the car radio and splitting them to front and rear as well. Clever stuff! :thumbs: it wasn't long before car stereos had 4 outputs as standard making these switches redundant.