Its not another one of those Qs about sizes etc......

There are two ways of getting at the rear speakers,

1) 4 star bolts, one in each corner of the speaker - very hard to get at and require triple jointed wrists and baby sized hands.

2) 3 "+" type screws holding the plastic corner piece on which the speaker is bolted to (quite hard to get at too). Trouble is the seat belt goes through it so makes it hard to remove fully. Is the plastic thing held on with poppers too like in the estate?

Which is the best route? I am thinking the 3 "+" screws to get the plastic thing out and then that gives good access to the 4 screws holding the speaker in.

Take the 3 + screws out - Is easy to remove the entire unit once they're off, and the seat belt merely slides out the slot in the speaker's "grille" Then you can do any speaker work away from the car in relative comfort. I'd love to know how to get any decent replacement woofer attached in place of an OEM one though. :( It would be like matching up a new alloy to the stud pattern to get something with four holes in the same place?

Not only that but the seat belt "recaller" for want of a better word has a serious restriction on the depth of the speaker. Thanks for the answer. I'm not quite sure what you mean by.... "slides out the slot in the speaker's grille"... but I will figure it out once I get my hands dirty. Have you replaced them? With what?

When the plastic surround is whipped out, the groove the belt normally slides through, is L-shaped, and there's another groove which it can slide out of. When the plastic surround is locked in position, this groove faces outwards from the inside of the boot.

I had the honour of replacing one of my busted OEM rear woofers with one from the wreck, so have had recent experience of this little job.

Ah ha! Cheers - that explains it. I am going to try to fit something decent in there. I will let you know how I get on.

Well installed my rears last night. I found that some 10cm speakers fitted perfectly - no problems with the screw pattern at all. The only hard bit was getting the plastic speaker cover bit apart from the plastic at the side - there are some very tricky clips - I broke two :(

On visual inspection the factory rears don't look too bad for 10cm speakers but the sound is much clearer now.

Well installed my rears last night. I found that some 10cm speakers fitted perfectly - no problems with the screw pattern at all. The only hard bit was getting the plastic speaker cover bit apart from the plastic at the side - there are some very tricky clips - I broke two :(

On visual inspection the factory rears don't look too bad for 10cm speakers but the sound is much clearer now.

:wrthless:

what did you stick in? I have been looking at boston acoustic for the 10cm rear fill.

I put in some MB Quart Reference series RKC 110. They are quite neat for small speakers.

The real limitation is the depth cause the magnets are very close to the seat belt retractor thing.

:wrthless:

Yeap - I will put some up on friday (sorry for the wait)

I put in some MB Quart Reference series RKC 110. They are quite neat for small speakers.

The real limitation is the depth cause the magnets are very close to the seat belt retractor thing.

How did you fit these, because from a piccie I just saw they look more like 6 x 9s :confused:

They are 10cm co-axials but actually components - they have a seperate tweeter (with different +/- terminals) mounted on top of the 10cm woofer and then there is a seperate crossover. They are just small 10cm speakers. Where did you get the picture from???

Try here.....

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:MB%20QUART%20RKC110%20Car%20Speaker:1990815360

They are 10cm co-axials but actually components - they have a seperate tweeter (with different +/- terminals) mounted on top of the 10cm woofer and then there is a seperate crossover. They are just small 10cm speakers. Where did you get the picture from???

Try here.....

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:MB%20QUART%20RKC110%20Car%20Speaker:1990815360

My piccie was from some US site, and they were deffo oval-shaped. Probably the same speaker, but a different shape for the US market (was same model number)

I shall look out for that one though. Looks sweet. How'd you do the connecting as the OEM speakers have click-in connectors. Did you just chop off the connectors and use some other method?