View Single Post
  #9  
Old 03-02-2011, 03:42 PM
nom3rcy's Avatar
nom3rcy nom3rcy is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Minneapolis
Posts: 860
nom3rcy is on a distinguished road
Quote:
Originally Posted by NextGen View Post
How did you mount the door speakers? I have tried to find a speaker adapter but no luck.

How did you tap the factory speaker wires? Did you cut them?
The oem door speakers are basically dropped into a cylindrical pod and then glued into place.

I simply cut out the glue and removed the oem speaker basket from the pod, and then dropped the DynAudios in their place using some silicone.

The only difficult part, for my situation, was machining the DynAudio basket to fit the factory location (they were quite a bit larger than most 6.5" speakers)

For the wiring, I cut the wires at each speaker location and crimped on some female spade connectors to fit the new speakers. At the other end, I removed the pins from the factory harness clip and put them directly into the terminals on the crossovers.

It actually went much smoother than I ever imagined. Even the signal from the factory tuner was directly compatible with the amp.
__________________
12 X5 M - 06 X5 4.8iS - 03 X5 4.4i - 03 M5 - 02 X5 4.6is - 99 M3 Dinan S3 - 98 M3 - 92 850i-6 - 92 850i - 91 325ix - 89 M3 2.5 - and a few parts cars
Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links