At Last, Rear speakers for my shuttle |
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Copier Bloke
Not Quite Newbie Joined: 18 Mar 08 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 35 |
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Posted: 29 Jun 08 at 17:16 |
It's been bugging me ages, the fact speakers are not fitted in the rear. Today i took the plunge and fitted some 375w 6X9, FLI's
First problem was where to locate them, my first choice was level with the rear seats (i believe the caravelles have them placed there). Unfortunately, when the rear seat was rolled forward, there was no room.
The only place i could find was just behind the seats, near side is fine,with loads of room behind the panel, but offside was tricky due to aux heater unit.
Decided to try the offside first, as if this failed i would just put blanks in to cover up my errors. Pulling off the seat belt capping, with the aid of a torch, you could just see there was enough room for these boys to fit. Be carefull of the to panel mounts and blower pipe of the aux heater. Drilled a pilot hole big enough for tape measure to fit through to see if i had enough depth, 8.5cm needed, 10cm depth available
Template on, marked out, four holes drilled, then with jig saw preceeded to cut
Puppies fitted first time
After the tricky side done the nearside was a breeze
Wiring next, fairly straight forward as the panels are flexible, ran along bottom of panels, tucked up door sill and along the rear of the front seats. Connected up wiring from the head unit, running out the back of dash and under drivers side, removing the small panel in the foot well made it easy, ran the cables under foot plate to meet with other ends, connect hey presto.
Overall the job took two of us 2 1/2 hours, as always the difficult bit was drilling that first hole, but once we were underway all fairly straight forward.
Pleased with the job and the sound
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'54, SWB shuttle, 130 auto, silver, tinted windows
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Onefut
Yardie I like pink Joined: 14 Jan 08 Location: North Devon Status: Offline Points: 994 |
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I fitted mine about a foot forward of where you've got yours
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God whispers in our soul & speaks to our heart. When we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick.
It's our choice: Listen to the whisper or wait for the brick! 05 Shuttle SE 174 Auto LWB |
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jan
Groupie Joined: 04 Aug 08 Location: Oldham, Manches Status: Offline Points: 71 |
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Has anyone put speakers higher up in the pannels between the windows and rear door.
I was thinking about putting some there, any info would be nice...
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2008 T5 2.5 130 lwb Taxi
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jan
Groupie Joined: 04 Aug 08 Location: Oldham, Manches Status: Offline Points: 71 |
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I got my speakers in the same place in the end but could only fit 6X6 round ones as there are air con pipes behide the panal so no room for anything larger.
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2008 T5 2.5 130 lwb Taxi
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Onefut
Yardie I like pink Joined: 14 Jan 08 Location: North Devon Status: Offline Points: 994 |
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Ive seen a panel somewhere to fit them in the rear door
its a complete panel with mouldings in it for 6x9's think its German |
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God whispers in our soul & speaks to our heart. When we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick.
It's our choice: Listen to the whisper or wait for the brick! 05 Shuttle SE 174 Auto LWB |
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Copier Bloke
Not Quite Newbie Joined: 18 Mar 08 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 35 |
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[Ive seen a panel somewhere to fit them in the rear door
its a complete panel with mouldings in it for 6x9's think its German ) Someone was selling these on ebay, haven't seen it for a while thou,
I was considering putting mine in the rear door but was put off by the prospect of feeding the cables, absolute mare of a job!!!
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James Burton
Not Quite Newbie Joined: 18 Sep 08 Location: Homeless . Status: Offline Points: 11 |
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Thanks for that , got a pair of 6x9 Infinitys that are getting a new home
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