Cayman 987.1 speakers

[adz86]

Hi

I've been trying to find the sizes of the 987.1 Cayman standard speakers, but getting conflicting information.

A couple of forum threads suggest the following sizes
http://www.caymanoc.com/forums/topic/574-speaker-u...
http://www.planet-9.com/987-cayman-and-boxster-ele...
http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/system-design-...

Doors
2 X 100mm (4inch) mids
2 X 200mm (8inch) lows.

Dashboard
2 X 19mm (3/4inch) tweeters,
1 X 70mm (2 3/4 inch) centre mid

Rear
2 X 100mm (4inch) mids


However when I watch door removal videos on youtube, it appears there is only one speaker in the door (might be being blind here...) ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrK1YYy5jyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaabW2CIMl4&t=...


Anyone got any advice? Better information?

Cheers

[adz86]

So listening to my doors whilst the head unit is on I can hear music from the rear, and the smaller of the two speaker locations in the doors, nothing from the bigger location. Right now I'm a bit stumped....

[adz86]

Cheers for the guidance,

After a lot more forum reading and google searching last night. I think I might know what the issue is.

The car does have an aftermarket head unit (bought it like this, door speakers made noise so didn't suspect anything!) and recon it's not linked up to the ASK amp in the front (which from reading forums, if I have the ASK amp, suggests the car has the SPP) which as you say, drives the bass 8" speakers. I definitely also have audio coming from two rear speakers.

So I recon, my possible desire to upgrade the door speakers is due to them actually not performing as they should (or at all) in the first place. Going to fix that problem first and see where I'm at. I've read the SPP system isnt actually all that bad. Got a SPH-DA120 on order and going to pull out the old headunit this weekend and see if the remote wire to the ASK amp is connected (hopefully, it is, otherwise that's a bigger problem :S)

Will update the thread once the jobs done.

Thanks for all the help so far!

[adz86]

Happy days!

So looking this afternoon, managed to get everything working and a new head unit installed!

Suspicions were correct in that it was just the ASK amp not connected. Luckily it was already a Pioneer headunit, so once I'd taken off all the trim and popped it out, it was easy to see.

I looked up the pinout diagram of the CDR24 headunit and found this (cropped to be posted on here)










After I removed the headunit, I could see that the A2 connection had nothing going into it.

This is the one. Red and Black.

I had already cut it lose by the time I took the pic



It looked like during the last headunit install, they had already created a 'on ignition' powerline from the fuse box. So I linked it into this.





Tested, worked, now have base from my speakers and it sounds SO much better!! Will give it a few weeks, but think I wont be needing those speaker upgrades after all

Before....







After..... (sorry it was going dark when I finished)

[adz86]

Ah, no. Didn't know about the dimming.

It is a little bright, but will need to see what it's like when driving to see if it will be an issue..

Is there anyway to manually turn the brightness down.

Also, how do you set the correct time, only seems to want to do every 30 min!

[adz86]

FML

So I cant access the picture adjustment option. reading online, this looks to be because the parking break line isnt connected! Apparently a Microbypass cable will do the trick. Anyone used these?

Worked out the time thing as well. Need to connect the GPS cable (Didnt think I would need it as my phone should have been good enough).

The manual leaves a lot out.

[adz86]

Round 2

Connected the park break wire to ground and plugged in the GPS, with a little coercing under/behind the glovebox and up the left side of the car its sitting nicely in the corner.






Took the car out for a drive, very happy with the new headunit. Having the speakers actually working makes such a difference and definitely wont need to be upgrading them.

Thanks for all the help and guidance. Its definitely been more of a journey than fitting headunits to my Astra's 10+ years ago!

Not fixed the dimming issue, but thats a problem for another day.

Edited by adz86 on Sunday 5th November 11:28