Reviews for Vertically Driven Products 792501 Hi Fidelity 6 Speaker Overhead Soundbar in Textured Black for 87-02 Jeep Wrangler YJ & TJ
I needed to replace the old wore out soundbar in my 2001 TJ that had the original 2 way factory speakers. I wanted an affordable option to get some basic woofers up there for better sound and a cleaner look, and this soundbar did exactly what I wanted. Is it as good as a $2000 amped up system with a subwoofer and high end speakers everywhere? No, but it's sound way better and louder than what I had and I'm not putting thousands of $ of sound into a jeep that spends most of it's time with the top down and doors off. I've seen some complaints about how the 2 LED dome lights work in this soundbar. They work just like a rocker switch, flip the light cover left or right to turn the light on. However, if you are installing this sound bar into a jeep that has an existing dome light, it can be wired to work just like the factory light. Every factory dome light has 2 wires going to it, one is always hot and the other is hot until a door jam switch or console switch gets turned on. Then the second wire becomes a ground and the light turns on. On my 2001 TJ, the pink wire is always hot so I wired that to the red wire on the soundbar. The yellow wire is my "ground" wire coming from the dash and door jam switches so I wired that to the black soundbar wire. Keep the sound bar switches is the on position and when wired this way they will turn on and off just like the original soundbar light.
I had recived this item - I like it but one of the lights would not work. I called customer servie and was told another would be sent but would be until mid april. I have yet to set item sent . pleae reply
Work's great lights work sounds good sitting in the garage haven't road tripped yet
Great sound and easy to install *screws for the roll bar are too small* but a easy fix
Thought speakers would have a nicer clear sound. Having light in dark is nice. Easy to install
Good product for the price. Wrong screws included with kit. Need to have 6 mm x 20mm long to complete install. 4 of them. Read on other reviews ,so I had them ready. Didn't care about dome light not working so didn't even try hooking it up. Overall happy
I like the design, but the finish and the assembly are lacking. Would be nice if they would remove the mold release agent from the part, has a nasty white residue all over, hopefully should come of when install is done. Biggest complaint is that the overhead lights would not come on. Finally removed light cover and light assembly and found that the red (positive) wire was not connected. Had no indication that was ever put on the terminal (no marks) it was just laying there. This was obviously not QC'd before shipping and cost me a wasted hour checking, chasing and fixing. The plus is that, it fits and looks great installed.
Speakers sound ok, not great though. The dome lights have never worked. When you try to turn the dome light on the battery turns on. It took me a minute to figure out why my stereo was working even though the key was not in the Jeep much less the ignition. I finally found that one of the dome lights had been pushed on (light didn't work) which turned on the auxiliary power supply.
Needs more base sound
Light doesn't work and sound is very poor.