Can you get decent bass without a SUB?

turbodog

Depends on how much DIY you are up for. I made a fiberglass enclosure, using my spare tire as the mold. 10 inch flat sub driver. No trunk space (or spare tire) sacrificed. I have not powered it up yet, though. Still slogging thru the install.

I have done serious sound deadening in the doors and installed Alpine 6.5's and Pioneer HU. It definitely sounds better, the bass is tight, controlled, not boomy and indistinct like with the stock setup. But I feel the sub is still needed. If the spare tire sub does not satisfy my needs (I am not listing to hip-hop or interested in setting off alarms in cars as I pass) then I will build an enclosure in the empty space where the crash data recorder (and Bose amp for those with Bose systems) reside. Likely one of the spaces 90 ST was referring to...