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MOUNTING THE MID/WOOFERS
Remove the factory grilles of the door – or if necessary – the complete door panels. The
EURO-DIN frame mid/woofer units provide bolt and screw holes to fit a great variety of
OEM standard patterns, making them ideal for a direct replacement of factory installed
speakers in European or Asian cars.
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Remove the factory installed mid/woofers or fullrange speakers. Before you attempt
to install the new AXTON mid/woofers, you must check the available installation depth
of the left and right front door. To do this, slide down both windows and hold the AXTON
mid/woofers in place to reassure the available installation depth does suffice. This test is
important, failure to do this may let you end up with an impaired window function!
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Connect the wire from the inline crossover to the main speaker wire in the door. For this
purpose, crimp connectors are suited best. Do this for both front doors.
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Connect the crossover wires to the blade connector terminals of the mid/woofer units.
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Pull the tweeter wire coming from the inline crossover into the loacation, where the
tweeter shall be mounted later on. If you fail to do so, you will have to remove the mid/
woofer in a later step.
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Check that there are no gaps between the speakers and the mounting surface in the
doors. Note that some (newer) cars will require the use of car-specific mounting adapters
made of pastic material. Without them, the Euro-DIN mid/woofers will not fit to the OEM
cutout, or the available installation depth will not be sufficient. Such adapters are usually
available from your authorized AXTON dealer.
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The cone and surround material of the mid/woofers is 100% water proof. However a
direct exposure of the mid/woofer to water inside the doors should be avoided. In most
cases, protection foils are pre-installed to protect the OEM full-range speaker. Do not rip
this foil out of the doors, it is there for a purpose!
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Fix the mid/woofer to the speaker mounting hole using the provided screws. If the mid/
woofers are directly screwed onto the sheetmetal of the door, use the metal clips included
with the mounting hardware. You can now reinstall the factory plastic grilles, but make
sure the surrounds of the mid/woofers do not come in touch with plastic parts standing
off on the backside of the grilles.
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In case you have chosen a new location for your mid/woofers (other than factory
cut-out), use the speaker protection grilles. Just mount them on top of the mid/woofers.
CROSSOVER WIRING
The crossover can be mounted in almost any location inside the vehicle. Just make sure
not to install the crossover units, where they may be exposed to dirt or water.
Maintain polarities all the way – double check for correct connection. It is very important
to make sure that all the connections are electrically in phase, which means positive wire
(+ or red) is connected to positive terminal, and negative wire (- or black) is connected to
the negative terminal. The wires are equipped with the right fast-on connectors, to make
sure polarity is correct. Reverse polarity connections of the inline crossover to the ampli-
fier, will cause a very low bass output and a messed up front staging.