the stock speakers handle about 10-15 watts max

most radio CD players, etc. today crank out far more than this

rather basic, not the highend speakers Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio
Shack will handle 40 or more W and produce a better sound with the stock
wiring - at least that is my experience running Kenwoods in two
different vanagons.   I have had to fix the wiring in the driver side
door on the Westy.

the real problem is getting rid of the "collision" between the window
crank arm and the speaker grill on the add-on speakers most of which
stick out farther than the stock speakers.

the arms scrape the Kenwoods a little and I just live with it.  Others
have made mods to their crank arms and chosen different, though more
expensive, IIRC, speakers to solve this.  lots about this in the archives.

Sam

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Sam Walters
Baltimore, MD

89 Syncro GL
85 Westy Weekender
84 Vanagon, original owner, soon to be retired, just too many problems

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