Which brings me to the most recent work we've undertaken.A simple upgrade of the rear speakers to compliment the fronts....
We started by removing the back seat base and support, the side panels, all the boot trim and the rear shelf.
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(Fuel tank is very nicely made)
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The speakers in the parcel shelf were an odd arrangement. They aren't sealed in an enclosure and are simply housed in a bracket. As suspected, they were as ******* as the front speakers;
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The same could be said of the speakers in the side panels too.
Whilst I felt it would be too much trouble to resolve the enclosure issue for the rear shelf speakers, Father spend quite a considerable amount of time engineering a solution to fitting them and achieving this;
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I, on the other hand, ended up with the the easier task of fitting what should have been the same size (6x8") replacement speakers in the side panels. After a bit of trial and error, we found that enlarging the hole off centre was the best option;
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Which I achieved using a flap wheel sander;
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And made some new fixing points using some M5 riv-nuts;
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Handily, the speakers also came with a sealing strip meaning the new speakers have relatively well sealed enclosure
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After spending a hour (or 3) cleaning all the debris out of the interior, we put it back together this weekend;
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We also added a cheap bluetooth connector to the becker HU, which works well, apart from the blue tooth being on permanently. But this should be simple enough to resolve.
The end result was also worth the effort, the sound quality and volume is now comparable with the Bose system in my GTA.