Reviews for Vertically Driven Products Hi Fidelity 6 Speaker Overhead Soundbar for 87-02 Jeep Wrangler YJ & TJ

Awesome sound and easy to install. Good buy.

Has really good sound and not too hard to put together if you know what your doing. I’d say it was a good purchase.

Upgrade from what I currently have.

This is the best sound bar made that will fit a CJ, YJ, TJ. So that's good. It should have LED lights that are much brighter. The lights are bit dim and I plan to change those out. It needs two wires to ground the lights, one for the doors open courtesy lights on, one for local turn on of the lights. It only has a ground for local control not door and courtesy control. Luckily you can add another ground on your own to make this a reality. Just add another ground to the center post on the inside of the light box. Run the supplied ground to your jeep and then run your new ground to the courtesy light ground system. Now you have lights when you push the lights and lights when you open the door. See Photos. Use a 12v power supply while working to test your set up.

The audio could also be better quality. There is really no bass at all. Round out the sound with good 6x9 speakers where the roll bar meets the floor and you will be much happier.

Soundbar fit nice and had great sound. Not meant for loud music, though. I blew out the left large speaker within a month of installing it. Be careful how loud you play your music.

Overall this is a solid upgrade from stock. Fitment is spot on. The lights leave a lot to be desired in brightness. Sound is leaps and bounds better than the stock soundbar. My other complaint is all the small screws that attach the speaker grills to the bar rusted within 2 weeks totally covered and out of the weather. For the price they could have used stainless for peanuts more in cost.

There is obviously a lack of quality control. When the dome lights wouldn’t come on I checked the fuse it was broken inside the holder. Still no lights so I removed the dome light and they weren’t connected. When they still didn’t work, I found the positive wire had come out of the harness connector and that finally fixed the light issue. While I had the dome light out, I replaced the 5 watt 194 lamps with LED lamps which are much brighter. As for the speakers, they are better that just having dash speakers and sound Ok. Hopefully when I get the settings on the radio adjusted, it will sound better. I wouldn’t be surprised it on or more of the speakers aren’t connected.

Speakers not connected.

Mine must have been built on Taco Tuesday, after lunch. On the left crossover input, one connector was not attached to the board, the other had a cold solder joint. Pain in the butt, but I fixed it. All speakers now working. The dome light also wasn't working. Pulled it out and the ground was not connected. Hooked that up and still no-go. Found the ground pin in the main connector was buggered up and not making contact. Since these aren't standard pins that I have access to (like Molex), I had to bypass it for now. In addition, mine has to be wired backwards from Jason's pics (pos/neg reversed) to use a ground for on/off via the door switch. Sounds ok with the 6x9s in the rear. Definite improvement at highway speed having it overhead. Would probably be lacking on it's own due to poor bass. Good design, poorly implemented.

The cover does not fit very good and doesn't look like factory.