Speaker Replacement

[babkalakal]

^This.
My recent speaker journey...
Had to swap old, torn, too far gone stock speakers. Genuine replacement was ruled out. Wanted some improvement.
Thing w/ online sourcing, one will leave a lot to guesswork....besides speaker diameter & cost.
Measured stock ones up, shopped & took the risk. The new speaker depth>stock & the mount holes were off those on the door. A bit of surgery, spacer fab were needed. To retain stock screw mating, the stock housings were cut away from the old speakers....to be adapted to the new. Measured the needed spacers to keep the magnet from touching the door's sheetmetal.
Pics of the door speaker(JBL) mod below. Luckily for the rears, the Pioneers were a direct, no-mod required fit.
Old speaker housing cut out from old assembly. White spacer was cut off a sintra board I had laying around.crappy stockJBL mountedBad stock rearsNew Pioneer rear

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uy 6x9s. those could produce decent base but they are getting rarer and rarer as oem. i can only think of the nissan navara having them now as stock..for the fronts hehe.

when i needed spacers but did not have some. i used folded up cardboard from the box the speaker came in cut as spacers sadnwhiched between the screw hehe. most probably didn't do anything for the sound quality but it prevented the magnet hitting the glass.