Even with the monsoon, output from the rear speakers has never been much to get excited about from a new beetle.  My golf has a different sound to it, but i honestly don't know if it's really different or just the interior "globe" if you will.

Your not supposed to have a huge amount of sound in the back. The rear speakers are supposed to be rear fill. The proper staging is to have it sound like the music is in front of you. The best set ups use a midbass for the rear with very little highs or mids. Bass below 80hz is non directional so it doesnt much matter wher a sub is placed to a degree. There are folks in the car audio world who spend years working on the perfect front staging of their system and the average Joe just wants it louder. :lol:

thats kinda what i figured, i supose ill just have to put a small truck box in the trunk then i think ill be ok with it. thanks for the help everyone!  :thumbs-up:

I sold and installed for 2 years in Dalton Ga so trust me i know all about the rice burners not to mention I have put some ridiculous stuff in some strange cars, but i do know a little about the vw new beetle sound system. i had the 04 satellite new beetle special edition and i blew 3 pairs of front monsoon premium door speakers until vw tried to tell me that the reason that I was blowing door speakers was due to the two ten inch subs that i had wired in the rear. they told me that they would not let the warranty cover anymore speakers. so i changed the head unit to something with a little more internal punch and omg the change was fa nominal more from every speaker in that thing! so if you wont to go to the whole rear subs thing than i suggest a new head unit also if you were to use the stock unit than you will have treble going through you subs and they don't like that. if you have any question just shoot a personal message at me and i will help anyway i can.

sounds good!  might have to go pull my head unit out of my van and put it in the beetle!  and if i need more ill put in one of my 12's i got around here somewhere.  thanks for the help!