smittylube
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All good Eric
Front speaker upgrade
- Thread starter JFC
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smittylube
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Looked again at one write up on speaker replacement and I see it is mounted to metal in the door with a hole into the metal door. I am not sure what to expect now when I open it up. That should be excellent if it is into the door as all normal speakers I’ve done before. I thought the speaker was mounted to the door panel. And not into the metal.
On VS30 @smittylube the speaker IS attached to the plastic door panel, not the door metal
smittylube
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Eric, that is what I first saw prompting my first comment.. then I saw another must have been an earlier version.
I cant tell if there is a hole behind the speakers into the door. If not I think there should be.
I cant tell if there is a hole behind the speakers into the door. If not I think there should be.
There is no hole in the sheetmetal behind where the speaker mounts to the door panel
some people have drilled a hole out so they could fit something else than a shallow mount ... to each his own i guess @smittylube
some people have drilled a hole out so they could fit something else than a shallow mount ... to each his own i guess @smittylube
Park City Mike
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I drilled a hole in the door metal behind the speaker so i could fit JL Audio C5-653 speakers. I also installed this speaker baffle for water proofing...otherwise you would get water dripping down from the window onto the speaker.
gltrimble
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My JL Audio 6.5” speakers came with tweeters which fit perfectly in place of my 2017 Mercedes dash mounted tweeters.
Glenn233
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How did you install the crossover?
smittylube
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How did this work for you? did you get much better base out of the door?
gltrimble
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I recall the speakers came with a pair of high level filters.
It's easy enough to remove the wires under the tweeter (there is a standard automotive disconnect on the tweeters), after you get the tweeter out (3 push back clips, which luckily my wife got free without too much trouble) - or disconnect at the harness behind the head unit. I chopped the harness behind the head unit, and extended the "to tweeters" wire down to the passenger seat base so I could add the connection to my 2nd set of tweeters (done just recently) to my amplifier. I believe I ran front + rear + tweeter signal (almost assuredly the same as the front signal, since the capacitor on the stock tweeters is probably the only high-pass crossover) to the fix86 in the passenger seat as well.