Hey everyone,

I would like to have a set of speakers in the bed of my truck. What is the simplest/easiest way of going about this?

What i would like to have is a set of indoor/outdoor speakers that i could hook up in the truck bed. They would not need to be permanent, nor would the wiring. Something that i could just hook up when i needed them and unplug when i don't.

I have a Pioneer deh-p4400 stereo, no amp. I have read that this all can be done with the addition of an amp but i don't want to go this route because the speakers would only be used in the warmer summer months. There would be no need for them in the winter.

Could i have some sort of switch to change from the speakers in the rear of the cab to the bed? I know very little about car audio, that's why i'm here. I can do installs and i just put in power windows so i'm not completely incompetent.

Any help would be great, thanks guys.

 

I was just thinking about that, what you can do is get a set of marine speakers they vary in price and quality and what you can do is make or find a way to switch from either having truck bed speakers for tailgating or rear speakers for driving my guess is a two way switch with an input and a alternating out puts or somthing umm for your speaker you could build boxes or you can get prefab 6x9 boxes what you can do is if you have a box liner you can mount speaker terminals on the liner so its a quick little connection to put them in or out,

 

So how would you go about hooking that up? What kind of switch would you use? Has anyone done something similar?

 

well you would have to get a switch where you have a input from your deck and two out puts that switch from each output otherwise your going to have 6 speakers all running at once and I'm not sure if your deck can suport it, but you would run your speakers in series with your rears so, take your door panels off in the rear speakers and splice the wire, attatch the new wires to your old wires to rear speakers and run them to your truck bed then connect them , a easy way would to just unplug one terminal on each speaker to turn them off