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993 Speakers ... Again!

New Focal door speakers fitted. I was a bit annoyed with the garage because they didn't replace the tweeters - at the sake of forsaking originality, I took the view that I would rather have better sound, especially if I have already paid for it!

Should be getting car back later.
 
I fitted my new ( cheap ) blaupunkt 2 ways's last night .

Bit of a ball ache ... cut off the sockets from the original and made up a new ' loom ' so I can now connect any speaker in teh future. Speaker fitted perfect but the covers had the holes out of place, so like the example on previous page, I cut out th eoriginal speaker mounting ring & used this so I could fit original covers. All done for about £30 incl the speakers :D Looks original & sounds much better . Still running with original blaupunkt tapedeck header so wasn't after anything too flash
 
hudat said:
I did front and rears when I did my interior sound deadening in 2016.
Fronts - JBL GTO 508 C 2 ways (13cm)
Rears - JBL GTO 6429 4x2's

Total price from Amazon was £104!

I'm not going to win any 'sound-offs" but the originals were done and for me they are good enough. Really tiny adjustments to the grilles to fit but a really easy upgrade.

To be honest, stereo is off when I'm on it, for cruising and motorways they're just fine...
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I have the M490 option on my car with the bigger door pocket thingys. If I'm going to replace them with something new, would these work or what should I be looking at?

Thanks in advance
 
adrian993 said:
hudat said:
I did front and rears when I did my interior sound deadening in 2016.
Fronts - JBL GTO 508 C 2 ways (13cm)
Rears - JBL GTO 6429 4x2's

Total price from Amazon was £104!

I'm not going to win any 'sound-offs" but the originals were done and for me they are good enough. Really tiny adjustments to the grilles to fit but a really easy upgrade.

To be honest, stereo is off when I'm on it, for cruising and motorways they're just fine...
Click to expand...

I have the M490 option on my car with the bigger door pocket thingys. If I'm going to replace them with something new, would these work or what should I be looking at?

Thanks in advance
Click to expand...

I did a rough pictorial of how I did mine if you want a copy? It wasn't a big job at the time but I had already removed the interior for sound deadening...

Let me know
:)
 
Yes please re the pictorial. I would like to replace the front speakers but have no knowledge of speaker wiring beyond the simple two wire setup, crossovers and so on so am a bit baffled as to what's required.
 
Yes a pictorial or what speakers (size spec) I should be going for is very useful.

Is there anything special about the M490 rear shelf speakers that need to replace with or will any 4x6" do?
 
pierrebear said:
Cool. Thanks, hopey. I'll go for them in that case - going to get them installed by a local chap in Jersey along with rears too hopefully. I'll be happy with just a little bit of bass without crackling to be fair!!
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How did you get on installing the speakers from carnewal? Just got a set and they are clearly not direct replacements. They are a reasonable price and a quality make (Helix). However new holes need to be drilled so I'm just looking at a template. Tbh I thought these would be the easiest fit but I might as well end up taking the door card off and putting in some extra sound padding... these jobs always take much longer than expected!
 
H0ME said:
pierrebear said:
Cool. Thanks, hopey. I'll go for them in that case - going to get them installed by a local chap in Jersey along with rears too hopefully. I'll be happy with just a little bit of bass without crackling to be fair!!
Click to expand...

How did you get on installing the speakers from carnewal? Just got a set and they are clearly not direct replacements. They are a reasonable price and a quality make (Helix). However new holes need to be drilled so I'm just looking at a template. Tbh I thought these would be the easiest fit but I might as well end up taking the door card off and putting in some extra sound padding... these jobs always take much longer than expected!
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So, I only bought the rear Hi-Fi option speakers from Gert. For the fronts I went with some Focal units and ended up getting a local audio shop to replace door speakers, tweeters and cross overs. Those seemed to fit quite well and apparently didn't require any messing around - they even managed to use the original tweeter speaker housing units so the system looks relatively stock.
 
Sorry for being a Luddite - how does one resize photos or upload iPhone pics??
 
Pics of Carnewal speakers

Some pics of my old Nokia speakers and the new ones fitted - Helix E 6X2
 

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