How to fit car stereo speakers in doors

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  • OVERALL DIFFICULTY INDEX: 2/10
  • IF YOU HAVE NO TOOLS YOU SPEND $10 TO GET THEM FOR THIS JOB
  • IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE YOU SPEND 1 HOUR TO CARRY OUT THIS JOB
  • NO SAFETY ISSUES​
BEFORE YOU START
  • Make sure to buy car speakers of the same diameter than the intended holes in your vehicle's doors. 
  • Always add 3-way quality speakers to your car. They are so affordable that it is not worth considering 2-way speakers or cheap ones.

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Start by our tips for removing the door panel and door connector:

Fitting the rear speaker

Cut a cross in the door speaker hole plug.
Start first by making sure your vehicle is not pre-wired for rear speakers.
Introduce your hand from the speaker hole and search well the surroundings especially where holding clips are located.
Gently pull out the anti-condensation barrier. It is fixed with a putty like glue material.
​You can pull it out then press it back in provided you do it smoothly and gently.
Prepare a few meters of speaker wire and introduce the wire into the speaker hole.
Then pull it out from the other opening (left) and introduce it:
  1. through the hole intended for the wires harness (middle)
  2. then through the flexible rubber harness protector (right)
  3. then through the connector itself as shown in the right picture
You need to leave a short length of wire out of the speaker hole which you have to connect to the short wire supplied with the speakers.
The short wire connection that is supplied with the car speakers is pre-fitted with speaker lugs that go into the intended connectors as shown in the right picture.
Try the speaker in its hole and find three matching screw holes.
Help yourself by introducing a small screwdriver in both a speaker and door holes and tilt the speaker to find the other two matching screws.
Use the car speaker screw nuts supplied along with the speakers and push them into the holes you had identified as matching with the speaker.
Fit the screws and tighten them gently. No need to tighten too much, you will damage the nuts.
The rear speaker has to be fixed by the means of 3 screws.
Attach the speaker wire with cable ties towards the bottom of the door so it doesn't interfere with the window lifter.
Fit well the rubber protector to the wire connector before refitting the connector to the door.
Make sure the rubber protector is well held in place as this makes the car door water tight.
Refit the wire harness plug on the car interior side and making sure to route the speaker wire in a manner to be able to close the plug's lock shown in red in the picture to the right.

See also our other pictorials for car speaker installation