Should i keep them or change them with something reasonable as RMS 50W?

2 or 3 way for rear?

Up to you, unless you are unhappy with them keep them. Don't worry about 2 or three - ETA: drivers or - of whatever number of watts if they have been working for fine many years. If you want better sounding speakers and you can get better sounding speakers then if you want them buy them. Take your Alpine specification to the seller of speakers and just get whatever is suitable and explain you are not worried about impressive number of watts or drives but impressive sound to match the Alpine, which you may already have and they just need a bit of cleaning, lubricating or fine as they are now.

ETA: you don't want the Alpine showing shortfalls in the speakers or speakers showing up shortfalls in the Alpine you want both suitable to each other only you can hear if this is achieved or you care that much about it, like the car there are limits to what can be achieved no matter what you do and how much you spend. As we say here the grass is not always greener over the fence, the dog that dropped his bone in the water because the reflected bone in the water looked bigger than the one in his mouth.

Edited 10 March, 20251 yr by nta16
ETA:

Here are my new front speakers.

https://www.soundoftristate.com/hertz-dcx130-3

• 2-way 13cm coaxial speakers

• 40W RMS power handling (80W peak)

• High Density flux ferrite magnet

• Water repellent pressed paper cone woofer

• Neodymium magnet

• Mylar dome tweeter

• Frequency response: 60-21kHz

• Impendence: 4-ohms

• Sensitivity: 91 dB/Spl

• Outer diameter: 130mm

• Mounting hole diameter: 119mm

• Mounting depth: 52mm

If your previous 40w (rms) speakers were fine with your Alpine then so should be your new 40w (rms) speakers.

As I was unclear before I will put now, if you want the factory speaker covers black that's fine but personally I would leave them as they are as I think it would look better in my eyes and no need to repaint them or do touch-ups later but it's not my car and I prefer a more blended-in understated look to things, plus not to attract magpies.

Edited 12 March, 20251 yr by nta16

Preparation

and painting, 2 layers.

Next is installation and photos while they are on the panel.

Here are the new speakers, was a ''plug and play'' task.

The painted mesh is ready, i will install them to.

Not that it matters at all but they look look better to me but I'd even want inner cone colours to be as the main cone and nameplate a lot more subtle, to me they should be heard but not seen. The grille should mostly hide and tidy the appearance of the speakers.

Here as they look now.

Not quality photos but you can take an idea, the ''duo tone'' i think adds something more, i think i won (AGAIN) the @Thefeliciahacker car in interior decoration. 😁

Yeah, gotta admit that looks fine. Personally I would have the rest of the interior that restrained, I don't like the look of even real carbon fibre so the sill plates are not even bling to me and replacing them with something that has the logo and car manufacture's name prominent isn't for me. The MGs of 1980s and 90s that had the MG logo all over the exterior and interior as if the car owner couldn't remember the brand of car he'd got. But as always each to their own.

I don't know what to do with this part, i don't know it's name in english because here in GR we call it ''etajera'' because many auto terms are a ''loan'' from France because we had relationship in the first years that cars came (and we assembly) here back in 1910.

This is a photo from internet.

and looks naked and bad.

Around where I am I think most would call it a parcel shelf, not that you would want to use it for that, or older people might call it a hat shelf. Really it's just a cover for the boot to hide and protect any stuff in the boot and reduce noise from that area a little.

Really for speakers that size you need a more secure locating panel and to really be fixed to give a solid box effect but if you reinforce that shelf the two bits of string and their plastic holders might not be strong enough for the weight if you keep it openable.

You could install a split shelf, part with speakers permanently securely fixed down and rear part openable. The speakers sound at that location might be a bit brittle being bounced off the large hard glass reflective area above them. Two speakers are easier to control than four unless you have them controlled separately, the fader only give the pair "volume" balance to front pair, unless the rear pair are tone and perhaps amplified separately.

7 hours ago, nta16 said:

Really for speakers that size you need a more secure locating panel and to really be fixed to give a solid box effect but if you reinforce that shelf the two bits of string and their plastic holders might not be strong enough for the weight if you keep it openable.

I have tested in the past to have that ''speakers tray'' fixed, saved me from the noise while bouncinhg in rough roads but i had problem loading laggages in the trunk so i abandon this.

The original pair of the plastic holders broke after some years and i have made a patent with black naylon cordes but i have found them in a CZ store and bought 2 sets.

@Thefeliciahacker almost wiped out the felicia so currently im not really interested in speakers and/or cosmetics...

14 hours ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

but i had problem loading laggages in the trunk so i abandon this.

That's why I put to have a split shelf arrangement (not necessarily that shelf) fixed for the speakers section and sperate section openable for loading boot.

13 hours ago, Thefeliciahacker said:

almost wiped out the felicia

Sorry to hear that, I hope the "almost" is a near miss rather than a partial wipe out.

5 hours ago, nta16 said:

I hope the "almost" is a near miss rather than a partial wipe out.

yes but very near

7 minutes ago, Thefeliciahacker said:

yes but very near

Storage or driving?

On 18/03/2025 at 12:48, nta16 said:

and reduce noise from that area a little.

As we speaking about noise: in the past i had that tray 'fixed'' together with the plastic parts with magnets, the tray was very stable and no noise coming from the up and down movement in road bumbers but there was a problem.

Many times when i was in a hurry to load the trunk (and having forgot that the tray is not lifting via plastic cordes) i hit my forehead on it while bending with luggage in hand.

Embarrasing...

6 hours ago, nta16 said:

driving

driving still processing why it happened

Just now, Thefeliciahacker said:

driving still processing why it happened

As long as you are alright, I know you value your car but even if was the most expensive car in the world it would still just be a lump of metal.

This is a patent that i have made for that speaker's tray so wont produce noise in bumpy roads.

An Ω shape rubber stripes in both sides.

That's good for annoying rattles and vibrations but for sound quality the speakers are possibly best in a fixed secured board with perhaps solid box enclosure. Panel fixing you might best get from panel fixed to car body (especially if your sound deadening and/or proofing extents that far as you body is already so dampened).

.

4 hours ago, nta16 said:

Panel fixing you might best get from panel fixed to car body (especially if your sound deadening and/or proofing extents that far as you body is already so dampened).

Something like this?

https://mycar.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/product_35395-1.jpg

Edited 21 March, 20251 yr by D.FYLAKTOS

1 hour ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

Something like this?

https://mycar.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/product_35395-1.jpg

No, not really.

The Max Power lot, and others, would have a boot full of speakers for loudness and/or competitions where music wasn't used to judge but a er, forget the word, so say a tone for accurate measurements of different systems for comparison.

There were also competitions between modified or sports car for loudest exhaust usually more informally, well the few I unintentionally saw, and heard, and these were street/road cars. Some probably so loud so they could be heard with some of their stereos. Some motorcyclists do this forgetting they have ear plugs and padded safety helmets on that the rest of us don't.

Edited 21 March, 20251 yr by nta16
typo

Like this?

https://www.alifragis.com.gr/thumbnails/46/1/fpgal_14310/fit/0/255.255.255/1000x1000/1467610199_0.jpg/format.webp

Always hate them.