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Changed out the driver side rear speaker yesterday.

Oh my gosh, I still have one rear speaker to replace.

Yeah, I know mounting the speakers behind the interior trim makes for a cleaner look, but good grief, that is one big job for such a simple thing.

El Cheapo alternator is still holding up okay. It's actually stabilized since I put it on, and makes less noise. The only time dash volts drops below 12 is when I turn on the interior fan full blast.

I'm probably going to put off this last speaker job until next week when it hopefully cools off outside. 99 F today!

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I was going to say geeze man, Its 99 degrees do you have an AC garage ? LOL.

I did relays on my car in 90+ and I gotta say after 30 minutes I was 'all sweat'.
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I was going to say geeze man, Its 99 degrees do you have an AC garage ? LOL.

I did relays on my car in 90+ and I gotta say after 30 minutes I was 'all sweat'.


I ain't got much hair these days, so sweat has no where to go except into my eyes.

I spend half the time of the job wiping away sweat from my eyes.
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Rear speakers......easy job. Just mount the new speakers on the grill by drilling new small holes and using tiny allen head screws and nuts. I used black ones and you can hardly notice them. Use existing screws to mount the grill.
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Try taking the 1/4 panels out of a S4 rear air car!....MUCH more work.
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Work

No joke more work - more like torture.
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Rear speakers......easy job. Just mount the new speakers on the grill by drilling new small holes and using tiny allen head screws and nuts. I used black ones and you can hardly notice them. Use existing screws to mount the grill.

I wish I could do that. Mine are mounted behind the perforated leather for the clean look.
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No joke more work - more like torture.

It's the heat outside that really makes it all so miserable.
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What type of speaker did you replace the originals with? I have both of my quarter panels off right now (needed to remove rust under quarter glass gasket), and I am debating whether or not I should replace my speakers. I currently have the factory Blaupunkts on my desk for computer speakers. They are in perfect condition and sound excellent. In the meantime because the speakers cannot be mounted to the car with the panels removed, I have my large Aiwa box speakers in the car sitting on the rear seats. They sound even better than the blaupunkts (better base & volume), wondering if I should solder in a connector so I can plug in the Aiwas after the panels are in place and keep the blaupunkts hidden under the panel, or just put in new 4" units. Any ideas?
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What type of speaker did you replace the originals with? I have both of my quarter panels off right now (needed to remove rust under quarter glass gasket), and I am debating whether or not I should replace my speakers. I currently have the factory Blaupunkts on my desk for computer speakers. They are in perfect condition and sound excellent. In the meantime because the speakers cannot be mounted to the car with the panels removed, I have my large Aiwa box speakers in the car sitting on the rear seats. They sound even better than the blaupunkts (better base & volume), wondering if I should solder in a connector so I can plug in the Aiwas after the panels are in place and keep the blaupunkts hidden under the panel, or just put in new 4" units. Any ideas?

I installed Memphis 4 inchers. They were a perfect fit, surprisingly, though with a smaller magnet. The posts don't thread all the way down the shank, so you'll have to install some sort of spacer to fill in the gap so that you can actually tighten down the speakers without running out of threads.

You can probably go for a larger magnet because the well behind the speaker is very spacious, unlike the door speaker wells. The one rear Memphis speaker sounds good, though has less bass response than the factory speaker, but the factory speaker sounded like it was covered with a pillow. I've got a compact powered sub on order that I plan to put under the driver seat to fill in the bottom end.
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Has anyone considered mounting a sub-woofer in the spare tire well? There's a good deal of space since the wheel is face down unlike most donuts. I was thinking of tracing the stock plastic cover and cutting out a plywood spare tire cover, and possibly mounting a sub on the plywood so it would stick down into the well (the tools/air pump would need to be relocated). Then make a simple mesh cover for the sub so it could not get pierced by anything in the trunk. I would think the carpeting over the spare tire well wouldn't be a problem, since it's a subwoofer and not a midrange/tweeter. Does something like that sound like it would work?
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Has anyone considered mounting a sub-woofer in the spare tire well? There's a good deal of space since the wheel is face down unlike most donuts. I was thinking of tracing the stock plastic cover and cutting out a plywood spare tire cover, and possibly mounting a sub on the plywood so it would stick down into the well (the tools/air pump would need to be relocated). Then make a simple mesh cover for the sub so it could not get pierced by anything in the trunk. I would think the carpeting over the spare tire well wouldn't be a problem, since it's a subwoofer and not a midrange/tweeter. Does something like that sound like it would work?

It's been done, and I'm sure it works fine. But I have issue with tucking the sub far away under heavy material in the back of the car. This location creates time delay between the music from the speakers and the low frequency energy from the sub. I've yet to hear a car set up like this with accurate alignment of all the frequencies. This is why I always opt to put a small sub under my seat. I like to feel the bass hit, and I like it to align with the music.

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