>Just replaced the front speakers. I found out a couple of things that >didn't seem to get mentioned before. > >First, if you got the molded plastic type stock blauplunk, the speaker >screws out. On the inside of the panel there is a collar that acts like >a big nut to hold the speaker against the panel. Second, The speaker is >glued to the molded plastic grill. It ain't worth even trying to reuse >the original grill.
It can be done, but not with ease. I rescued the original grills for the rear speakers (same design) by chisling the speaker off the back of the grill with a small screwdriver and a hammer. Took me about 40 minutes to do both speakers, but made it possible to mount a pair of Orion speakers hidden behind the factory grills. Drawback was that they would not mount using the screw-on method of the originals, so I had to come up with a different way of holding the grills in place.
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