speakers
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Fred Hindle
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David,
You have to ensure that if the replacement speakers have a tweeter cone in the middle it doesn't stand proud of the main speaker. If it does than it will push against the speaker grille. AFAIK grille 'rings' or 'spacers' aren't available that would allow you to acommodate certain speakers.
Years ago I fitted a pair of Kenwood speakers in mine but the car was more 'current then.
Cheers,
You have to ensure that if the replacement speakers have a tweeter cone in the middle it doesn't stand proud of the main speaker. If it does than it will push against the speaker grille. AFAIK grille 'rings' or 'spacers' aren't available that would allow you to acommodate certain speakers.
Years ago I fitted a pair of Kenwood speakers in mine but the car was more 'current then.
Cheers,
Here's a pic of my old '89 2.7 with the rear panel & speaker/blanking plate removed:
http://www.belper.plus.com/DCP_3459.JPG
hth.
http://www.belper.plus.com/DCP_3459.JPG
hth.
idwoodvale
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Thanks for that.
I don't have a pic of mine to hand but it's essentially the same with the hole being much smaller - about the size of a 4x6" speaker funnily. From your picture, it looks like I'm probably safe to have a go at enlarging the hole....carefully.
I don't have a pic of mine to hand but it's essentially the same with the hole being much smaller - about the size of a 4x6" speaker funnily. From your picture, it looks like I'm probably safe to have a go at enlarging the hole....carefully.
idwoodvale
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My Speaker solution:
Went to Unicar in Leeds on Friday for their opinion.
There wasn't really enough room in the panel to make it worthwhile trying to fit larger speakers so I went for a direct replacement for the 4x6" - with Infinity speakers. Don't know how what the reputation of these is but they are a definite improvement with more mid and bass than the old Blaupunkt ones in (21 years old I presume).
Also added a small subwoofer in the boot - Alpine SWD 1600. About the size of a small video player, secures well on a few velcro strips and removes in about 10 seconds.
All in this was £200 plus about 2 hours of my time to fit, and a small piece of skin from the back of my left hand [
] (now somewhere behind the head unit).
The improvement in the sound quality has been well worth it. The difference on the motorway is superb and I now no longer lose all bass tones beneath the Blue Flame exhaust, somehow without things sounding too loud.
BTW Cheapest improvement: just removing the piece of fabric stuck behind the perforations in the rear panel allowed a far sharper sound through. I was shocked at the difference.
Went to Unicar in Leeds on Friday for their opinion.
There wasn't really enough room in the panel to make it worthwhile trying to fit larger speakers so I went for a direct replacement for the 4x6" - with Infinity speakers. Don't know how what the reputation of these is but they are a definite improvement with more mid and bass than the old Blaupunkt ones in (21 years old I presume).
Also added a small subwoofer in the boot - Alpine SWD 1600. About the size of a small video player, secures well on a few velcro strips and removes in about 10 seconds.
All in this was £200 plus about 2 hours of my time to fit, and a small piece of skin from the back of my left hand [
] (now somewhere behind the head unit).The improvement in the sound quality has been well worth it. The difference on the motorway is superb and I now no longer lose all bass tones beneath the Blue Flame exhaust, somehow without things sounding too loud.
BTW Cheapest improvement: just removing the piece of fabric stuck behind the perforations in the rear panel allowed a far sharper sound through. I was shocked at the difference.
robwright
New member
To do the fronts is easy but you will have to put a spacer between the door card and the speaker grill when you replace it to accommodate any decent size of speaker cone. search not too hard and you will instructions on here how to do it. The cards will have to come out of the rear in order to change them yes. I am lucky mine came pre-done ))) lol.
))) lol.
dirtydirtyharry
New member
In my 944 lux the fronts are 6x4's not 6x9's. One of mine has started buzzing during 'bassy' tracks. Does anyone know what the maximum depth of speaker for the front doors is. I presume it must be around 5cm.
The door cards do not need to be removed for the fronts. The rears are apparently more tricky.
944 man
Active member
Later cars have a larger round apeture in the rear, whichll be covered by a plate in cars without the Nokia speaker upgrade. Youll have to remove the rear quarter window to get to them though (remove the aluminium trim and remove the window; then you can take the rear quarter trim out).
Simon
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craig2105
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It's actually easier than it may appear to get the rear side windows out to get the interior side panels off - I did it myself a couple of weeks ago and believe me, I'm no mechanic. There's a how-to guide on Clarks Garage so have a look there. Just take your time about it, although that said, it was no more than 90 minutes to do it all when I did it.
scam75
Well-known member
I replaced my rear speakers recently and did not need to take the side windows out. I carefully slid the overlap out from under the seal and then carefully fed it back in under the seal using a little flat blade screwdriver to lift the seal as I went along. You can get 6.5 inch round speakers in there with a bit of fiddling!
I have also fitted 6.5 inch round speakers at the front with minimal fuss, slight nibbling of the door card sufficed and they don't foul on anything except maybe your knees when you get in and out![]
I have also fitted 6.5 inch round speakers at the front with minimal fuss, slight nibbling of the door card sufficed and they don't foul on anything except maybe your knees when you get in and out![
]
ChasR
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ORIGINAL: scam75
I replaced my rear speakers recently and did not need to take the side windows out. I carefully slid the overlap out from under the seal and then carefully fed it back in under the seal using a little flat blade screwdriver to lift the seal as I went along. You can get 6.5 inch round speakers in there with a bit of fiddling!
I have also fitted 6.5 inch round speakers at the front with minimal fuss, slight nibbling of the door card sufficed and they don't foul on anything except maybe your knees when you get in and out
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