Some customer feedback. Bought this from Nomadic Supply. It is excellent! Really made a huge difference in sound quality for the front end. Stock sprinter speakers are total junk. Hilariously terrible quality when you take them out and inspect them. Insane that Mercedes puts such terrible quality speakers on a $70,000 vehicle. Took about 10-days to get shipped from Germany to California. Installation was straightforward and these videos are great. There were a couple parts where the door trim removal in the video was a bit more complex than necessary (the door handle wire has a holding clip that can be moved and disconnected a few seconds. No need to feed the handle through the door. Most of the speaker replacement in the doors is for sound deadening and insulation. I added a bunch more butyl sound deadening to the interior of the doors. It was a check off item for the van conversion as well. Insulation and sound deadening the doors made a big difference in road noise as well. I recommend taking the extra time to add extra insulation to the doors than shown in the video. The sheet metal in the doors is thin and the source of lots of road lies in the cockpit area. The Jehnert system is really plug and play with Mercedes connectors. Fit and finish of the new mid/tweeter speakers looks factory. The system won’t fix everything in a van. It’s a big space and needs a subwoofer and/or rear speakers. I liked the Jehnert system so much that I’m ordering the Jehnert amp and MBUX wiring harness from Nomadic to run a self powered sub and rear speakers for 360 sound in the van. Thanks for the great install vids. Made the project easy. In terms of my install time (skilled DIYer with all the tools and third van build) the first door was about 90 minutes going slowly and cautiously to avoid breaking clips. Most of the time was in insulation and sound deadening the entire door. Second door was under an hour. The upper speakers: first one took about 45 minutes going cautiously. Second one was less than 20 minutes.
Some customer feedback. Bought this from Nomadic Supply. It is excellent! Really made a huge difference in sound quality for the front end. Stock sprinter speakers are total junk. Hilariously terrible quality when you take them out and inspect them. Insane that Mercedes puts such terrible quality speakers on a $70,000 vehicle. Took about 10-days to get shipped from Germany to California. Installation was straightforward and these videos are great. There were a couple parts where the door trim removal in the video was a bit more complex than necessary (the door handle wire has a holding clip that can be moved and disconnected a few seconds. No need to feed the handle through the door. Most of the speaker replacement in the doors is for sound deadening and insulation. I added a bunch more butyl sound deadening to the interior of the doors. It was a check off item for the van conversion as well. Insulation and sound deadening the doors made a big difference in road noise as well. I recommend taking the extra time to add extra insulation to the doors than shown in the video. The sheet metal in the doors is thin and the source of lots of road lies in the cockpit area.
The Jehnert system is really plug and play with Mercedes connectors. Fit and finish of the new mid/tweeter speakers looks factory. The system won’t fix everything in a van. It’s a big space and needs a subwoofer and/or rear speakers. I liked the Jehnert system so much that I’m ordering the Jehnert amp and MBUX wiring harness from Nomadic to run a self powered sub and rear speakers for 360 sound in the van. Thanks for the great install vids. Made the project easy.
In terms of my install time (skilled DIYer with all the tools and third van build) the first door was about 90 minutes going slowly and cautiously to avoid breaking clips. Most of the time was in insulation and sound deadening the entire door. Second door was under an hour. The upper speakers: first one took about 45 minutes going cautiously. Second one was less than 20 minutes.
Great video….I will use this when I change out my speakers. Definitely good to sound proof the door and do some insulation as well