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Technical Adding rear speakers to a Panda with Uconnect

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Hi all
My 2017 Panda TA has the factory midrange speakers in the front doors and the tweeters in the windscreen pillars but no rear speakers.

I'd like to add the rear speakers and I'm pretty confident physically fitting them won't be difficult. The problems I foresee are two fold:

Number one is the wiring for the speakers already in the doors or will I have to run the wiring myself? The second one is my car has the Uconnect system. I believe in other Panda's this comes factory fitted with rear speakers. The problem is my Uconnect headunit doesn't show the setting to adjust the fader which leads me to suspect that there's some sort of software difference between ones fitted at the factory without rear speakers and one fitted with them.

Can anyone confirm or deny the above?
 
aparsonson said:
Hi all
My 2017 Panda TA has the factory midrange speakers in the front doors and the tweeters in the windscreen pillars but no rear speakers.

I'd like to add the rear speakers and I'm pretty confident physically fitting them won't be difficult. The problems I foresee are two fold:

Number one is the wiring for the speakers already in the doors or will I have to run the wiring myself? The second one is my car has the Uconnect system. I believe in other Panda's this comes factory fitted with rear speakers. The problem is my Uconnect headunit doesn't show the setting to adjust the fader which leads me to suspect that there's some sort of software difference between ones fitted at the factory without rear speakers and one fitted with them.

Can anyone confirm or deny the above?
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Fader setting is not visible because there are no rear speakers attached to the radio.
I'm be told that if the radio detects rear speakers, fader will be available to use.
 
My plan is to take the rear door cards and see if the wiring is there. If it is I'll test with a pair of any old speakers I can find lying around. If they work then I'll commit to getting hold of the right door cards and a proper set of speakers.
 
I've checked today and sadly the speaker wiring is not part of the rear door loom.

When I'm feeling more ambitious I may take the HU out the dashboard and test the rear speaker connectors. If they work I may look at sourcing the right rear door loom....we'll see:(
 
Hi.
Why not install two speakers in the rear parcel shelf? Much easier to cut two circular holes than faff with door cards. The larger volume of the boot space will enhance bass.
 
chris3234 said:
Because you want it to look tidy?
And not a chav mobile with speakers there!
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Ha Ha.
That made me chuckle. There is no reason why you cannot do a nice neat job without it being obtrusive. As a Radio and TV engineer the majority of my working life, I did loads of ICE upgrades including speaker additions and mods.
I'd rather do it that way than adding cables to the doors or hacking around with door cards.

I'd check the head unit first though to see if there is an output for rear speakers and if simply connecting them up the set sees them. A 4.7 ohm resistor across each rear output will do as a check to see if the HU recognizes the load.
 
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