6.5" Speakers in the Doors

I found this thread about installing 6.5" speakers in the front doors. It was on the old forum posted by computerkiller.

ok people u might know the aveo has like 5 in speakers well the hole in the door allow 6 1/2 if u dont mind taking a drill to the door and useing speaker spacers because that what i done ill have to take pics to show you guys but it kinda tricky to do i found that only certirn speaker spacers work and once your get them in your got put something on the very bottom of the spacer so that when the window come down they dont hit your speaker magents ill try to draw up a digram or something to show




THIS IS JUST THE DIGRAM THE PICUTURES ARE BELOW
if you are wondering where i got my spacers go to circurt city roadshop and ask them for spacers for a 6 1/2 speaker it will cost u about 14 bucks
He used some speaker spacers from circuit city. All I could find online was these. Do you think they will work.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Metra-Un ... tDetail.do

Computerkiller, are these the same spacers that you bought.

[Nemasys]

I put 6.5's into the doors as well, you can see the spacers on my cardomain, i had to drill new holes in the doors tho to install them, very easy to do tho

[ontarian_frog]

So a 1 inch spacer would be good. Would a 1.5 inch one work?

[Nemasys]

The ones i have are 1 inch, the speakers are pretty close to the door panel, i'm not sure if 1.5 inch would work

[kirbycope]

i was looking for those 1" spacers with the metal, could only find plastic ring Scosche (sp?)
http://www.cardomain.com/item/SCOSS65

I ended up buying some scrap 3/4" MDF and made a couple spacers... worked great. You might want to check the depth of the speakers and the size of the magnets though. I'm cheaper in my old age, but I'm sure that I would have needed some more space if I used a better quality speaker with larger magnet.

[whiteraven]

heres what 6.5" look like in the doors. This was how I got my car, but after my deck got stolen I took them out.

[kirbycope]

whiteraven: is that a custom speaker mount?

[whiteraven]

Yes it is.


Just curious, if I had this mount made in like ABS plastic, would you guys want to buy them?? I still have the pods so I could get them made.

Is it worth my time and investment $$?

[khan4rtist]

how much....the little midget speakers suck ass....even after an upgrade