Oct. 1st, 2017

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I put a pair of Polk Audio speakers in [personal profile] threemeninaboat's car. Man what a huge pain. Taking apart the doors was nothing like any of either the youtube videos or the forum discussions. (Well, okay, in general it was: use body panel tool to pull door loose, but the screw locations were all different and there were two extra screws hidden under the control panels.) The first door took me forever. The second door went much faster. To make things trickier, the stock speakers have three tabs, unevenly distributed about the periphery, that hold them into the car, and the new speakers have four holes, evenly distributed. I traced the new speaker outline on a bit of 5mm plywood, then the old speaker tab outline, drilled, and cut them out with a skilsaw. They fit well, and I managed to salvage some old foam from previous speakers I saved as acoustic insulation around the speaker to the grille so they aren't getting muddied up by the interior of the door. If I had a bit more time it would have been neat to put foam behind them, but even doing what I did had me out working until well after dark. What's frustrating is that it wasn't until I was trying to get the second door panel correctly aligned and reattached to the door that I managed to figure out how to remove it entirely, when it fell on my head. The whole project would have been much easier if I'd known that on the first panel. Crimping connectors behind a panel using what I can see through the speaker grille is not a recipe for success.
On which subject, does anyone have suggestions for decent, quality crimp connectors for cars? I got some Deutsch connectors and they're fabulous but they are total overkill for something like this. They're what I'd put in a firewall connection or the engine compartment.

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