Nice look - four abreast! I got 4x 275/65/16s in my E53, but one had to go in the front seat.

I had a chance to finish my last window refurb today. I've gone through each door over the past month replacing clips, two regulators and re-gluing various internal door panel parts back on with JB Weld plastic formula.

The thought of pulling them back off to install new speakers makes me ill, but I've decided to upgrade the the speakers and amp in the near future, to go with the new Kenwood receiver. Nothing too cosmic, but just about anything will beat the 20 yr old OEM stuff. I'm leaning towards a 4 channel Kenwood amp in the OEM location and using the stock speaker wires, a powered Kicker 8" sub in the opposite (fuse) cubby, a set of two-way Kicker 6.5" speakers for the back doors, a set of component 6.5" Kicker woofer/mids for the front with tweeters for the stock dash location. The a-pillar tweets and rear door upper mids will be unplugged. The kicker sub is 14 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 9 3/8, which I think will just fit in the right trunk cubby with the fuse box.

I'll have to run RCA cables from the receiver to the amp and powered sub, which I'm not looking forward to, but I will be able to cut out the line output converter that I'm currently using to make the stock amp play nicely with the Kenwood receiver.

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Original owner 2002 E53 X5 4.4i to 4.6i swap
2026 G80 M3 6 spd
2025 G06 X5 50e
Former
1972 Audi Fox
1986 Saab 900S
1996 BMW Z3
1998 BMW E36 M3 Sedan
2004 BMW E46 M3
2006 Audi A3 Quatro
1993 Mopar 318 Jeep Grand Cherokee
2015 V6 Jeep Grand Cherokee