Replacement speakers: what do people recommend?

[Fat Audi 80]

I am still running the standard rear speakers in mine but with the rest of the kit upgraded and provided you bias the sounds to the front it sounds great. ( I am running my front kenwood speakers and tweeters from my amp as well as a sub off the amp. I am very pleased with the set up and it gets some good comments too...)

So unless you have blown the rear speakers I would leave them be and bias the stereo towards the front. (you WILL need a sub though for bass)

Cheers,

Steve.

[curlyks2]

Thank you!

Not quite as straightforward as I was hoping, but not impossible either.

Do you remember what size of speaker fits in the backs? The consensus is that 10cm (4 inch) fits the front nicely, but no size(s) have been suggested for the rears (yet)! I guess it's a 1 inch tweeter - not sure about the pair by the rear seats though.

Popped into one of my local car audio "specialists" earlier. They launched straight into the "you need 6x9's in the parcel shelf driven by a separate amplifier, and you might as well disconnect the standard rears, and we can do it for you for about £700". Yeah right.

Ck.

[Greg_S]

Take the rear seat base out, 2 screws at front and lift out.

Lower back seats down and use a 17mm and an allen key to take the securing parts for the rear seats out.

Lift the two rear seat bolsters out.

unscrew the sill trim around the door pillar and remove screw from door pillar (cant remember if is on that or door so might not need to)

Lift the plastic guide out for the seatbelt and use a stubby posidrive to remove the screw from under neath.

remove the screw from where the seat bolsters covered which holds the plastic tweeter panel to the rear panel.

Remove 3 screws which secure the parcel shelf supports and remove parcel shelf.

the tweeter panels will lift out and slide along seat belt. The rear panels lift out of their locating lugs.

this is a good time to fit remote central locking (The OE kit) since it plugs in behind one of these panels.

HTH

[curlyks2]

What do I need to unscrew/remove/etc to get to the rear speakers? (Both the ones by the rear seats and the ones up behind.)

Cheers,

Ck.

[curlyks2]

Thanks!

On that basis I may not bother with the backs as it looks like time to take all the panels out. I can always change the front/rear bias from the head unit!

This of course is where I find that it's actually the rears that are more blown that the fronts... although they're all now showing their age. Maybe I should just listen to more soothing music instead.

Cheers

Ck.

[Greg_S]

Managed to find some pics of the rear speakers.

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/attachm...ttachmentid=15 mounts

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/attachm...ttachmentid=16 new and old

[Greg_S]

Ive got some pictures at home from where I changed mine, the problem with doing the rear speakers is they way that they fit. The original ones twist fit onto lugs, where as mine were normal screw in types. So I cut the tabs off the speakers and bent the lugs on the oe speaker brackets to make them fit then sealed them onto it.

Took a couple of hours.

[Tommy200rs]

this probably fits under the original grille:
DKC-108 3.5" Discus Coaxials Speakers
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...sPageName=WD2V
- probably cheaper components than in the separates kit, but certainly better than originals

All www-links I found for the referenced DKC-110 were not a separate set like in above pictures ?

Do you mean these: MB Quart DSD-210 4" 2-Way Discus ?

[curlyks2]

Thanks folks. Looks like MB Quart is the way to go! Since I'm after keeping the original look (don't really want to attract additional tea leaf attention by having nice speakers on show), I guess 110's are looking the likely option.

I've not investigated how easy it is to replace the rear speakers - what makes it more complicated and/or time consuming?

Cheers,

Ck.

[s2carlo]

I have two 10cm Caliber (dual cone) in the front.
Easy fit, even managed to get te Caliber covers on.
Nice wide sound spectrum even some low frequency in the crapy location.

In the rear still original speakers but using the JVC headset I turned them down.
The Caliber-sub is taking over, driven by a Caliber-amplifier! :mischeif:

[Fat Audi 80]

Oh, forgot to add, my Kenwoods are under the standard grille too, if that's your bag...

[Greg_S]

Mark,

I have the coaxials so they are just in standard holes. the components probably sound a bit better i guess? looks nice with them installed there too. managed to keep the standard grille too

[rotoryboy]

Another view

[rotoryboy]

Yes they are matey. The crossovers are under the dash near the speakers and the tweeters are in the air vent. They literally just push fit into the same hole.

[curlyks2]

I have to say I run the 210's and am VERY pleased with them. They are a superb setup and the clarity is great. Go MB Quart if you can It's worth it

Looking at the info on the 210's they are a component set? Where did you put the tweeter and where did you hide the crossover?

Cheers,

Ck.