Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:47:57 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cheap front door speakers sound Great!
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It just unscrews like the big plastic nut and bolt that it is! ;)
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I "ran" right out and bought some of these and they are already
> here. How did you get the old speaker out of the enclosure? Mine is
> an 86 Wolfsburg and it looks like it has the speaker glued into the
> enclosure. The enclosure is held to the door with the big threaded
> ring. Seems like I've read in the past about people braking the old
> speaker to get it out? good/easy way to do this without damaging
> the enclosure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edward
>
> At 07:38 PM 10/9/2010, Richard Koerner wrote:
>
>> After the last few roadtrips, noticed that the front factory door
>> speakers (25 year old Blaupunkt) were sounding weak and fuzzy. I
>> have a second pair of 5 1/4" speakers mounted down by the footwell,
>> but the fuzzy speakers were annoying. Did hardly any research to
>> find 3 1/2" speakers for to replace the factory ones (I'm not a
>> serious audiophile...just want it to sound "pretty good"). Found
>> these Legacy 3 1/2" 120 Watt Co-axial speakers on Amazon; bought
>> from CarAudioDeals, $11.23 + $3.73 shipping.
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002M792S/ref=oss_product
>>
>> Removed old Blaupunkts...sure enough, the paper cones were
>> split. Installed the new Legacy's...NOW we're talking!!! I think
>> they sound really good, amazing actually. Plenty of base, good
>> highs, look like solid speakers....especially for under $15 for the pair.
>>
>> Some installation caveats:
>>
>> 1. The speakers come with side mounting tabs.....no problem, just
>> fold these back.
>> 2. The tweeter extends beyond the rim of the main speaker by about
>> 1/4". The original speaker grills are slightly convex...but not
>> enough...the tweeter will rest on the interior of the grill. So I
>> made a "spacer washer" out of an old neoprene wetsuit, about 3.5" OD
>> and 3.2" ID, and used 2 layers of 1/8" thick wetsuit, glued
>> together. I epoxied this spacer washer to the mounting face of the
>> new speakers, and then applied more epoxy to the face of the spacer
>> washer and placed inside the speaker grill enclosure and let it cure
>> to mount the speaker in the grill enclosure. I think you can buy
>> spacer washers if you want; or, you could probably build up
>> thicknesses of cardboard or something to achieve the same
>> effect. Anyway, it all worked just fine, solid, no buzzing. And it
>> fits the factory plastic shell on the door panel. Of course no
>> problem with the window cranks either since using the factory grill.
>>
>> Very impressed by the sound...can really turn it UP if I want
>> to...and I do a lot of driving with windows rolled down. By the
>> way, my radio is from a Honda Civic that I got on ebay for about
>> $10...nothing fancy but a good unit, LCD display matches the
>> instrument cluster clock, looks "factory" except that it says Honda
>> on the cassette tape door (need some black paint and an artist's
>> brush to take care of that I guess).
>>
>> Extremely pleased with the final result....should last for years.
>>
>> Rich
>> 85 Vanagon GL
>> San Diego
>>
>
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
Crescent Beach, BC
www.thebassspa.com
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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