Hi, I recently replaced my front speaker and I am surprised how it can be fragile, magnet just fall apart. Not sure, if this happened because of loud music, degrading plastic or slamming the door. If your speaker starts to play badly, it can be time to replace it too. I followed YouTube video how to disassemble doors. Needed: new speaker,spare plastic clips (because they often break), drill (to remove old rivets), rivet gun with rivets (preferably thicker and longer) and washers (maybe not necessary),  10mm wrench, screwdriver and patience. 

What did you replace it with, OEM or upgraded speaker?

Replaced with OEM. But would like to squeeze some small woofer in my car, if possible.

I like this (not the fact it broke).  Some small useful bits of info/ideas around the fact the speakers are fragile and closing the doors too hard could fail them.

4 hours ago, havik said:

Hi, I recently replaced my front speaker and I am surprised how it can be fragile, magnet just fall apart. Not sure, if this happened because of loud music, degrading plastic or slamming the door. If your speaker starts to play badly, it can be time to replace it too. I followed YouTube video how to disassemble doors. Needed: new speaker,spare plastic clips (because they often break), drill (to remove old rivets), rivet gun with rivets (preferably thicker and longer) and washers (maybe not necessary),  10mm wrench, screwdriver and patience. 

Exactly the same happened to front passenger speaker on mine. Replaced with OEM.

31 minutes ago, MarkyG82 said:

I like this (not the fact it broke).  Some small useful bits of info/ideas around the fact the speakers are fragile and closing the doors too hard could fail them.

Few times I refused customers (aka d***s) and they slammed doors really hard. My theory is, this can make micro tears in plastic and some random high volume music will finish the job. Lol, for few months I had big piece of fabric squeezed behind speaker inside of the doors, to push magnet back on place and it worked temporarily, until fabric got wet . This week I was finally brave enough to use rivet gun for first and probably last time in my life.

I'm a mechanical engineer specialising in structural dynamics and I fully agree with your theory. Never put much thought into it before but the door speakers must go through hell with all the opening, closing, temperature changes, humidity changes, etc. etc. I can see an upgrade in my future.

 

PS rivet guns are dead easy. Keeping the head of the rivet snug down is the key. The long push ones are far easier on your hands than the gun type.