Yes, you can fit the kicker key behind the radio, but the key amp, plus the bulky harness, plus two crossovers is pushing it. On the 2021+ you don't have near as much room behind the radio as I imagined. I chose behind the radio, and I'm seeing now I should've chose behind the rear seats. I believe that was super common in 2015-2020 model trucks. Most people run this amp behind the factory radio. Bruce will make your harness based off where you want your amp to be. Swapping out the door speakers on all four doors was extremely easy. For some reason the rear door window switches were extremely hard for me to get out, while the fronts came right out no problems. I did have to do some minor trimming on these allow for fit with items inside the door skin. Instead of "fast rings" or foam rings I chose the silicone speaker baffles to mate with the door panel. I went with this stuff because it's easy to remove if you want, compared to some of the kilmat and other amazon alternatives, they can be hard to take off if you ever need to. I picked up 15 feet of this "Frost King" stuff for $27 at Home Depot and it's Awesome! It took care of the rear two doors, then I went back and bought another roll for the front two. Figured since i was in the door panel i may as well. I see a lot of people like to use Dynomat, or similar to dampen the road/excess noise. I just had to run Power and ground to the battery for the Kicker key amp, and also run separate wires from the tweeter to the crossovers.īack in the day I would take all this apart without a care in the world but I tried to be super careful as this is a new truck to me and I didn't want to break any plastic clips, or mess anything up. So he made me a harness that was really impressive, and mostly plug and play. The Harness you would need is made by Pac and is around $60, I figured I may as well go ahead and pay Bruce for his plug and play harness that takes into account load generators, so your chimes and tones will work right, as well as provisioning for subs in the future. I've done wiring for years but I'm not one to cut up my factory harness. Several companies make the "plug and play" harnesses for our trucks now where you can taylor them to your needs. So i bought the 2-way component 6.5" speakers for the front doors, and the 6.5" coaxial set for the rears. Bruce recommended Morel and told me these were superior in my price range. I considered doing Kicker door speakers, Memphis, Pioneer and a few others. I decided to speak with Bruce Watson with Hush Car Audio after seeing everyone else's success. 5 star audio on youtube was a great resource for me during this project. I was impressed that the kicker key can tune the whole system for you. I wanted an amp with a built in DSP, due to the fact that i'm not experienced with audio tuning. I chose the Kicker key 200.4 after seeing a lot of success on other F150 forums. Now you need line output converters for subs, and you have to consider the factory EQ settings that account for bass roll off, etc. Audio has changed so much since i did all of this in simpler vehicles when I was a teenager. I've got a 2021 F150 with a base 7 speaker system, so it wasn't great. I wanted to upgrade my door speakers and add a small 4 channel amp. I searched this particular forum a good bit when considering upgrading audio but didn't find this exact setup so I figured I'd share to help anyone who was interested.
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