i have had to replace the front speakers in my fabia due to blowing one and have purchased the speakers and the adaptors.

once the old speaker is out by drilling the rivets out does the new ones have to be rivited in also?:confused:

also how are the new speakers wired up to the plug on the end of the wiring?

Usually you'd just use screws. Just screw straight into the holes from where the rivets went through. I haven't seen the inside of a Fabia door panel though, so if you could post a picture, that would be most useful. Something else you can get at some little brackets... kind of C shaped. If you draw an equals signe and then draw a line at one end to seal it... its difficult to describe really. Anyway, they have 2 holes, on large and one small. You clip this over the hole you want to screw into (assuming the hole in the door is too large for the screw to bite into) and as you screw through it passes through the big hole, through the door and then bites into the other side of the clip, securing the speaker to the door.

With regards to the wiring, you may find that you need to cut off the standard connector and either crimp or solder the appropriate ends onto the wire.

ive sorted the wiring side out. couldnt pull myself into cutting the wiring so just cut the plug out of the old speaker and wired the new speaker to that. now it plugs together like the old one.

spent all day making some spacers, fiddling around getting them a good fit and securing them to the car only to find out ive measured something wrong and they arnt thick enough!!

so ive left the passenger side door card off and now im waiting on some spacers ive ordered over the net.

i know of these c shaped clamp thingys thats have been mentioned and would do the job instead of rivets but would there be any worries of these vibrating loose?:confused:

I wouldn't have thought so. I've used them on my Focus and they're fine. Because they're springy I think they must put tension on, so they don't unscrew.

Good thinking using the plug from the old speakers. Genius:thumbup:

The C shaped things are nuts or fixings for the screws that normally come with the speakers. (You might have some. They're normally galvanised grey things...) Normally, on openings in panels, there's a return or lip, so they may not be of use unless you want to relieve (bend, file, marmalise) it a bit.

With my speakers, the magnet gets so close to the door support bar that I don't really have to hold it in place whilst I get the screws.

J.

Daz-VRS ,

if that was for a Fabia ,can you tell me what depth the spacers need to be please?( or what size the ones you made were ,and how much they were short )

thanks

Andy

AndyPandy............you have PM.

Daz

Speed fasteners is the more common name for the 'c shaped things'

Remember the speaker has to seal against the metal carrier or you will get water leaks.