Anyone knows the front speaker size for Skoda Felicia? I want to change the default ones. Is it 10 cm diameter?

Thanks

Anyone knows the front speaker size for Skoda Felicia? I want to change the default ones. Is it 10 cm diameter?

Thanks

hi, yes;

Front speakers are 5' 1/4 if you use rounded one they will fit, but you wont be able to put the cover, the ones i used, and most definelty recommend are te ones that have rounded corners, like the ones in the picture.

i also strongly recommend using a boom mat (google it if you dont know what it is) front speaker give no bass (lowest posible frequency is 200) and poorly seated speakers with no cross over yield distortion, a boom mat will eliminate the distortion, outside inteference and you will "hear" more bass from the speakers

a alternative (one that i've used multiple times) is to take the speaker shopping find a plastic container that fits the speaker and mount it between the speaker and the base

now dont go nuts buying 200w 300w 400w speakers, thats a lot of BS, i have 25watts 4ohms speakers mounted and they work like a charm, why? when you go speaker shopping look at the magnet size and the dust coversize and shape get a medium magnet on a speaker with the lowest watt number, and the dust cover (border fo the speaker cone) must be rubberish rounded (not corrugated) and fit those one way speaker please, 2 way and 3 ways are a joke (plus a tweeter that low is another joke) just get a small tweeter and fit it above the side rearview lever or higher on the door frame best fidelity for tweeters are at ear level

now trust me on the speakers, watts dont mean loud, just heat disipation, speaker construction on the other had does mean sound and fidelity

a tweak or mod is to remove the cover, mach the shape and build a spacer flush with the outside that way you can fit 6 1/2" speakers (but it would yield no improvement on sound or volume)

it's 13cm daiametar

i also strongly recommend using a boom mat (google it if you dont know what it is) front speaker give no bass (lowest posible frequency is 200) and poorly seated speakers with no cross over yield distortion, a boom mat will eliminate the distortion, outside inteference and you will "hear" more bass from the speakers

I guess you mean this sort of thing? Dynamat Original Speaker Kit from Halfords Price £5.00 £5 isn't a bad price either for this I think.

I guess you mean this sort of thing? Dynamat Original Speaker Kit from Halfords Price £5.00 £5 isn't a bad price either for this I think.

dunt know, the picture was'nt too descriptive

its this; http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Item/Photos/Default.aspx?i=696B050330&g=762

and this is the replacement i've used so many times; http://www.worldfastfoods.com/pimages/10459_Microwaveable_Food_Container_24oz_White_Round_Type_.jpg

Front door speakers = 13cm

thank you all for the informations

On 21/02/2009 at 17:04, Cepheuz said:

 

Front speakers are 5' 1/4 if you use rounded one they will fit, but you wont be able to put the cover, the ones i used, and most definelty recommend are te ones that have rounded corners

 

now dont go nuts buying 200w 300w 400w speakers, thats a lot of BS, i have 25watts 4ohms speakers mounted and they work like a charm

 

The topic is very old but i was looking for informations and i found it.

 

Here is an exaggeration at 5.25'' and 400W

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251597468656

 

I want to replace my 25 years old Pioneer (front speakers) and i don't want to keep the factory grey mesh, i am searching to find speakers with their own black mesh cover to install.

For example:

 

 

 

 

 

Take no notice of any wattage it's usually just penis measuring fantasy numbers, like sticking on a Fezza badge of a ropey Fiat.  Personally I would look for New Old Stock ones, if they are reasonable priced, that match the player you have fitted.  The wattage figures will probably be very modest (but still exaggerated) but a more likely match to a 25 year old player in specifications, fixing and sound.  I would look at speakers that were factory fitted in more expensive cars models of 25 or more years ago.

 

Personally anything that needs a big label badge to shout what it is like the blue spot and Blaupunkt and bright blue cone(?) and purple GD wouldn't necessarily say quality to me and I would avoid anyway but each to their own.

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Edited 1 March, 20251 yr by nta16

On 01/03/2025 at 13:41, nta16 said:

 Personally I would look for New Old Stock ones, if they are reasonable priced, that match the player you have fitted. 

 

Sadly but i can not install a round black mesh although would look very pretty.

 

https://www.bazos.cz/img/1/168/196943168.jpg

 

 

The factrory panel's hole isn't round in the outer line. 

Unless you can adapt the mesh covers that come with the speakers the factory covers will have to remain, given the shape and location the factory covers would look better in my opinion anyway

 

I will paint them black to match the black colour of the panel-handle. 😄

If you can successfully paint the factory covers then that would be the way to go IMO.

Do i need to use primer or just light sandpaper work and then black (mat) spray?

Sorry I have no idea as I stay as far away as possible from ancient technologies like paints, oils, glues, sealants, standard brake fluids, internal combustion engines, etc.. Only getting hands-on with such stuff when absolutely necessary. All messy, dirty, smelly, sticky, fumey things.

Here are my front speakers,

after 25 years of use are dusty-rusty and with reduced performance.

I time for replacement, also i have removed the grey colour factory grille for painting.

Depending on what material the cones are made of you could rejuvenate them and make with a suitable cleaner polisher for the material. Presumably the electric connections are fine and the speakers work.

100w is just a figure, the factory stereo was surely never anywhere near a 100w, then you have to ask how is the figure of 100w got. If the amp is X watts per channel then the speaks only need to x watts. It is quality that counts not silly made up figures, remember Spinal Tap and the amp goes to 11 ! 😄

Yours is a noisy small car so say a real 70 watts per (two) channel amp to good quality efficient speakers should be more than enough even for the poor quality (and low) recordings of the 60s, 70s and 80s heavy ("metal") and poodle rock.

Edited 8 March, 20251 yr by nta16
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First time heard about ''I.C.E'' was back in 1999 in the Max Power magazine from UK.

After few years here in GR we had young people with huge speakers-subwoofers-amplifiers having very loud music trying to impress other youngsters in the cities, we call them ''deaf horses" and laughing.

Many times those idiots involved in crashes only because they didn't paid attention on the road or haven't heard the horn from another driver.

Unfortunately the Traffic Police here shows too much tolerance to those morons which many times at 2 o'clock at night they waking us with their loud music as passing buy.

Never really cared about loud music in the car, i prefer to hear the noises from the car especially in the Mountain roads, the choice of Watts was from the electrician back when i bought the Felicia, he installed 100W at front and 130W in the back.

I have Alpine radio-cd-mp3 player and of course no amplifier.

Music systems are louder now to overcome the overloud exhausts which have to pop and bang, and sometimes throw flames to draw attention to the car, driver and occupant(s). Then they whinge like mad when Police or local residents give them a lot of notice. Some might as well put big illuminated signs on the roof begging to be stopped to check for irregularities and unlawfulness.

Not much different to when we were lads only then we only had old bangers and if the exhausts were excessively noises it was because of rust and the stereos (if they weren't single speaker mono) were 2.5 watts at a push so even with all windows fully wound down the tuneless singing was probably more of a disturbance.

Alpine radio-cd-mp3 player Google search bring up 60w x 4 (built in amp) how the 60w is calculated isn't mentioned so the 100/130 w speakers are like having a 225 kph speedo in a car with a top speed of 160 kph. If you're lucky an electrician will know about electricity but nothing of sound quality, or true speaker requirements (that's not to say 100/130 w speaker can't be good sound quality but that not just the wattage number, it's back to Spinal Tap's amp that goes to 11. looks impressive to some/many(?).

53 minutes ago, nta16 said:

Alpine radio-cd-mp3 player Google search bring up 60w x 4 (built in amp)

I think mine has output power 50W x 4, if the rear need change in the future for sure i wouldn't put 130W.

In front i have bought Peak 80 W and RMS 40 W

I'm sure the Alpine built-in amp is fine, otherwise you would know on the front speakers at least at high volume. Like engine power little is used normally but you have to allow for bursts of high perhaps sustained power.

25 year old is a bit new to me, was it from factory two speakers, radio cassette player?

I've no idea what's in my wife's 2015 Fabia Mk3 power wise but it's more than enough for how I listen to things now (almost always speech radio anyway).

13 hours ago, nta16 said:

25 year old is a bit new to me, was it from factory two speakers, radio cassette player?

I bought it without radio or speakers, empty.

I went in a Car Sound store and they installed what they thought was proper.

I didn't had the knowledge to suggest something to them but i didn't liked their work for example cables not through the door but outside (!) the panel and i never visited them again.

I don't write the nationality of the installer because @Papez will call me again "racist".

After few months i visited another Car Sound store, the electrician was suprised from the lousy work of the previous "shepherd" (as we call here any bad installer) and made many corrections.

3 hours ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

I don't write the nationality of the installer because @Papez will call me again "racist".

After few months i visited another Car Sound store, the electrician was suprised from the lousy work of the previous "shepherd" (as we call here any bad installer) and made many corrections.

That is nothing to do with race, a p1ss-poor quality workman is a p1ss-poor workman, in England we have lots of English workmen that are p1ss-poor quality and I am sure in Greece you have many p1ss-poor quality Greek workmen. As I have put many times I would generally prefer to employ women and I am not being sexist against men as I am sure there can be poor quality workwomen but generally they are not mentally hindered by the chemicals from having testis.

At least you got it sorted.

Many "stereos" I've seen since the 1980s look hideous to me and the modern touch screen stuff with bright colours look more like a toddler's toy t me, especially the ones from China - but that's just me. Modern sound quality generally is so much better though (well ignoring cheap stuff during and just after Covid that VW might have thrown into their cars perhaps).

Too sloppy work that night, not only in cables but in connections-screws etc, imagine that they didn't use red-black cable so next time the electrician didn't knew which cable was the + and which the -

Wasn't about the race buy for the nationality, those guys didn't knew what to do because simply till few years back they didn't had cars in their country, was forbidden by the Party to have private property.

The owner of the store hired them to save money from salaries, he paid this few years later when the store closed due to competition and customer complains.

These are my rear speakers, i won't install the same when it's time to change them.

If they are genuine Pioneer they should be reasonable and reliable, 3 way so the player might have (or might not, too new to me) setting for such for best and/or it could to allow for expansion of the system, three is only better if sounding better than another with two or one. Bit sad to see even then "Made in China" but China has, and does, made high quality stuff when required (and perhaps checked).

It doesn't look a nice installation but that is the store owner taking advantage of them and you, you can't blame them unless they own and run the store. We have similar problems here but of course business are allowed to get away with it and blame put on the workers/employees, when they are not modern day slaves, often by their own people.

You seem to have as much luck with your car as I used to have with mine (went out for a quick ride in my old car this afternoon, very nice, and very shiny unlike when I had it).

Last car "stereo" (it was actually mono) I bought and fitted was New Old Stock unopened from the 1970s and a NOS upgrade speaker (I can't remember if the speaker was 2.5w or 4w). 😀 For a 1970s car of course, when your car was new-ish.