You people suck. 12 years later, I finally replace speakers.

[Ricky Bobby]

Mike I'm really glad you liked your JL C2/Fountek upgrade!

With 12-13 year old door panels and such I would expect to want to do some sound deadening, even without upgrading my speakers, just over the years and taking the door panels off a few times I notice the occasional rattle on mine. I am probably going to get some GTMat like Prop and either do the inside of the door panels or put it on some areas of the door skin when I do my door speakers.

Also take a look at the area where the door panel meets the sail panel of the tweeter - I had a bit of a rattle there and stuck a piece of sticky felt on the sail panel in that spot before I put my door panel back on last time and it actually helped a lot -

[semcoinc]

I am equally pleased with the C2 woofers and tweeters in the front doors of my E53. No rattles detected.

The TR series JL woofers are doing a very respectable job in the E46 front doors and rear deck. A very tight fit to the E46 front door without cutting any sheet metal.

Speaking of rattles, I was tuning the E46 system (OE HK set up in sedan) with my upgrades yesterday and picked up a buzz/rattle in the HK subwoofer 6x9 on the driver side. I suspect it may be a fractured foam like I found in the 15 year old mid ranges and these factory 6x9s are the last OE speakers remaining in the car.



So, for $30 I have a set of Pyle PLSL6902 coming to make the speaker replacement upgrade complete. The factory mounting housing looks to be about 2.25" deep and these have a depth of 2.125" so really looks to be the right fitment.

Pyle PLSL6902 6"X9" Slim Mount Speaker 2-Way Coaxial W/ 1" Voice Coil & Tweeter 68888743082 | eBay



Mike

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

With 12-13 year old door panels and such I would expect to want to do some sound deadening, even without upgrading my speakers, just over the years and taking the door panels off a few times I notice the occasional rattle on mine.

RB, I'm lucky to say I've only ever er had the door panels off twice before this speaker install. For a new door handle and new window clips (both done within last 8 months). I never had any rattles from factory woofers. And I only get them now with certain frequencies. Door is still quite with stereo off and driving so nothing else rattles from road vibration thank god). Oh well time to take door panel off for a 4th time (but in no major rush). The mids and tweeters have me in music heaven. Even my SiriusXM radio sound quality has improved and that was my main objective. Music from my GROM or CD player (ewww what's that) sound great but even brighter now.

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