toyota jbl system

My wife owns a 2002 Toyota Sienna with the JBL sound system. For my ear's it sucked from day one, but she doesn't jam like I do and was happy with it. Her front left door speaker recently blew and not wanting to disturb the boat too much I looked at dropping in an oem speaker, that is until Toyota told me that it would cost me nearly $300.00...FOR ONE SPEAKER!

I generally do my own installs; however, time is tight and so I thought that I would stimulate my local economy by visiting one of the local Car Stereo Shops. I was just looking to replace her front speakers with something of good quality that would allow her to once again, listen to her music at very low volumes. We decided on a pair of Fosgate's that fit the bill nicely and after haggling for a better price we set up an installation appointment. Soon after arriving home I got a call from the shop telling me that these speakers will not work with her JBL system. Their explanation was that the JBL system was a 1 Ohm system and the Fosgates were 4 Ohm speakers and would fry the head unit. I know that the OEM speakes are actually a 2.4 Ohm speaker (or something close to that) and so I can't for the life of me figure out how they could come to the conclusion that the JBL system is wired for 1 Ohm. I was told that we needed to gut the old system and buy a new one and so they immediately went into their sales pitch. I knew something was odd here and started calling other out of town shops and they never heard of this ever being an issue.

My question to you, "Are they right about the JBL System or am I being scammed into buying something that I do not need?"

Any suggestions with regards to speaker replacements that would basically drop in and improve the over all quality would be much appreicated.

Thank you in advance.

Razorbacx

If you know the original driver was a 2 ohm, there are several manufacturers that now make 2 ohm replacements.  Infinity is one that comes to mind.  Removing a 1 ohm driver and installing a 4 ohm driver will not blow anything, the 4 ohm driver will not be nearly as loud as the 1 ohm driver was, but it will not hurt anything.  Look into a set of 2 ohm speakers.