03 Polo

robbiehall · Post by **robbiehall** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:19 pm

Has anyone replaced the factory speakers with coaxials or components? There doesn't seem to be alot of room in the door.

Cheers
Rob

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:10 pm

is this on a 3dr or 5dr?

robbiehall · Post by **robbiehall** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:49 pm

Sorry, a 3 door

Rob

M7 · Post by M7 » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:31 pm

i have...

although i got bassmechanix to fit mine, a company in newcastle. they told me their is nowhere to fit speakers in the rears, not even anywhere to build a wooden mount.
in the front i have 6 1/2" speakers and they are in wooden door builds, that they constructed.

robbiehall · Post by **robbiehall** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Cheers for that.

I am hoping that my local firm can fit some Image Dynamics in the doors, but do wonder if I might be better off forgetting that and putting some 6x9's in a stealth rear shelf instead.

Anybody got some thoughts on that?

Can you buy the plastic door trim retaining plugs anywhere?

Cheers
Rob

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:44 pm

2fast4u wrote:i have...

although i got bassmechanix to fit mine, a company in newcastle. they told me their is nowhere to fit speakers in the rears, not even anywhere to build a wooden mount.
in the front i have 6 1/2" speakers and they are in wooden door builds, that they constructed.

Bit of a fib.

I would have changed the rear one's in my last polo if i'd kept it.

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:55 pm

do you guys with 3dr cars have 'holes' in the panel?

robbiehall · Post by **robbiehall** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:20 pm

Well, AFAIR the card has a cutout for a grill which sits up tight against a plastic ring with a square outer (with a floppy sealing ring) that goes round the speaker (which is pop-riveted to the door) and fits between the two.
So there sort of is a hole, but it is covered by a square (colour coded) grill.

I haven't looked behind the rear panel, but am not hopeful there is much space there.

Rob

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:24 pm

not sure on the 3dr, but on my 5dr, i bought speaker adapters from autoleads, but they dont fit !

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:24 pm

I ment to put a link in my last post

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... r+speakers

There aren't any holes for speakers unless you get the plastic frames for the speakers like i did in my last polo.

Aaron why don't you just make your own adaptors out of MDF?

M7 · Post by M7 » Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:45 am

i was told off the company who fitted mine that rear speakers would not go into the rears on a 3dr and vw couldnt provide any mountings, and they couldnt make any either.

now i realise they just couldnt be arsed!

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:43 pm

SiDaBa wrote:I ment to put a link in my last post

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... r+speakers

There aren't any holes for speakers unless you get the plastic frames for the speakers like i did in my last polo.

Aaron why don't you just make your own adaptors out of MDF?

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:40 pm

2fast4u wrote:i was told off the company who fitted mine that rear speakers would not go into the rears on a 3dr and vw couldnt provide any mountings, and they couldnt make any either.

now i realise they just couldnt be arsed!

that sound just about right from most VW's dealers. Have to admit it took a lot of error by VW to find the right parts think i must have been back and fourth about 6/7 times over a period of 3 months (just how long it took for parts to come in and discover they were wrong).

So that's what the inside of rear doors look like, will be a while before i replace my rear speakers let a lone front ones.

robbiehall · Post by **robbiehall** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:51 pm

How did you guys find re-using the door card retaining clips?

And what does anyone think of using a Stealth Shelf/sub-box as opposed to replacing the front speakers? - seems to be less hassle???

Rob

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:00 pm

robbiehall wrote:How did you guys find re-using the door card retaining clips?

And what does anyone think of using a Stealth Shelf/sub-box as opposed to replacing the front speakers? - seems to be less hassle???

Rob

Best to have extra clips, found that most of mine either had broke from the person who did it or i broke some when putting them back on.

I also had a stealth shelf. Dunno what spec your car is but I found in my 1.2 the weight of a stealth shelf & sub obviously weighed the car down and slowed it down. Not only that if i take corners (roundabouts) at a fast speed with all that installed the back would start to slide out.

still these are choices you must make