I have a 2013 Wrangler Unlimited and I have a problem (Jeepaholics Anonymous). Oh yeah..back on track. I got rid of the stock 8" Alpine sub a couple of years ago (still have it if anyone needs one). I replaced with a JL Audio low profile box and their thin mount 12. This thing had really good base but it took up most the room in the back of my Jeep. I found a takeout sub from a 2015 Wrangler from Rubitrux and installed it in my 2013 Sahara. It is a quad voice coil sub so I wired both pair of coils in series then parallel to the amplifier. The total would make it roughly 1.95 ohms. I have been running it this way for the last week and it sounded really good at first...and now is even better. The sub apparently has broken in and has really good bass. It is deeper than the JL Audio sub and hits even harder. I think Alpine did a great job on this sub for the Wrangler. Its not cheap, but the bass response is every bit as good or better than the JL Audio and I get all of my room back. I heard the sub is a 300 watt sub, but I have the gain turned down quite a bit on the amp. It is definitely more efficient than the JL Audio. As long as it holds up with the PDX-V9 sending power to it, I am going to be extremely happy with this solution.
The set up is:
Stock 730n RHR Radio
PAC line out converter on the back of the radio (the trick with this is to ground it to the battery, not anyplace behind the radio)
Audiocontrol DQX EQ (you lose EQ with the stock 730 when using the PAC LOC)
Alpine PDX-V9 5 channel amp (900 watts total)
JL Audio C2 components in front
JL Audio CX2 coax in the sound bar
2015 OEM Alpine sub and enclosure wired in series and parallel
Way better than stock 2013
Way better than stock 2015 with premium sound
The set up is:
Stock 730n RHR Radio
PAC line out converter on the back of the radio (the trick with this is to ground it to the battery, not anyplace behind the radio)
Audiocontrol DQX EQ (you lose EQ with the stock 730 when using the PAC LOC)
Alpine PDX-V9 5 channel amp (900 watts total)
JL Audio C2 components in front
JL Audio CX2 coax in the sound bar
2015 OEM Alpine sub and enclosure wired in series and parallel
Way better than stock 2013
Way better than stock 2015 with premium sound
