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240 Door Speaker Replacement/Upgrade - Stock Appearance

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Benjam83

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I tried searching...but I'm guessing this might be a little bit of a corner-case.

'93 240 wagon

Ok, background...I recently replaced both of my front door speakers using BNE's speaker grills. I'm very happy with how much better the stock radio sounds...and I love how close they look to the older factory grills that I had on my old 87 240. I don't really have any intention of replacing the original head unit. My goal is the clean appearance of originality...even if she is a little sassy underneath...

Anyway, my rear speakers are pretty bad, so I've got it faded all the way to the front. I'd like to replace the rear door speakers and tweeters, but would like to maintain the stock appearance. Has anyone tackled it like this? Or does everyone just settle for the speaker grills that come with whatever speakers you buy? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...
 
I cut some metal in my rear doors to fit a pair of JL Audio XR570 speakers
I have a pair of JL Audio C5-400 speakers installed with the original covers and adapters from Wagon Mesiter in another wagon.
Currently running JL Audio XR525 in the front doors with adapters from VolvoNest and a 1/4" spacer.
 
You're running the Wagon Meister adapters in the rear doors? Or you just made your own adapters to fit speakers to the rear doors?
 
The speker can either fit in or behind the Wagon Meister speaker adapter.
The stock 4" speaker grills then attach to the front of the Wagon Meister adapters.
I've also used a pair of JL Audio C2-400x with this setup, which sounded fine.
 
Your car being a '93 means it has 5.25in speakers on the back doors instead of 4in speakers. As far as I know, nobody has designed an aftermarket bracket for that style of speaker/grill. And I know for a fact that nobody has put an aftermarket tweeter behind that factory tweeter grill. There are 3d printed brackets for the 4in speakers, but not for that style of 5.25in. I asked the geniuses in the 3D printed parts thread to design a bracket for those style speakers/grills, but I've had no response as of yet.
 
I'm tempted to drill out the rivets holding it all on, and sacrifice the original speakers to allow an aftermarket speaker to work...

So, the 5.25" rear door speakers were a 93 only thing?
 
Benjam83 said:
I'm tempted to drill out the rivets holding it all on, and sacrifice the original speakers to allow an aftermarket speaker to work...

So, the 5.25" rear door speakers were a 93 only thing?
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That's likely the easiest option with that style of speaker. It used to be to fit 4" speakers behind the factory grill you would cut the speaker off and basically have your own wagonmeister adapter. So you can do you cut it up to make an adapter or learn how to model stuff to 3d print.
 
I added 5.25 speakers to the rear doors of my 91 245 using the same style Volvo "speaker pods". Just had to trim the door cards a bit to fit the speaker magnets through.
 
just replace the lower speaker with a 2 way and leave the tweeter in the door card disconnected...
or get door cards without the tweeter hole in them
 
philski o'flood said:
just replace the lower speaker with a 2 way and leave the tweeter in the door card disconnected...
or get door cards without the tweeter hole in them
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but...but...but I wanna do both...

mblue240 said:
That's likely the easiest option with that style of speaker. It used to be to fit 4" speakers behind the factory grill you would cut the speaker off and basically have your own wagonmeister adapter. So you can do you cut it up to make an adapter or learn how to model stuff to 3d print.
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This is probably the route I'm going to go. And then when I get the door cards off to do this, I'll take a look at the tweeters and see what options I've got...
 
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leadermoose said:
Your car being a '93 means it has 5.25in speakers on the back doors instead of 4in speakers. As far as I know, nobody has designed an aftermarket bracket for that style of speaker/grill. And I know for a fact that nobody has put an aftermarket tweeter behind that factory tweeter grill. There are 3d printed brackets for the 4in speakers, but not for that style of 5.25in. I asked the geniuses in the 3D printed parts thread to design a bracket for those style speakers/grills, but I've had no response as of yet.
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Someone has made one for a 5.25" speaker which will let you mount a normal speaker. I don't think the grille has been made. I think the bracket was designed to use the stock grille. The speaker mount is deeper to accommodate a regular 5.25" speaker.

If you're not too picky, you can get the stock speaker mount & grille and remove grille like this.
 
white855T said:
Someone has made one for a 5.25" speaker which will let you mount a normal speaker. I don't think the grille has been made. I think the bracket was designed to use the stock grille. The speaker mount is deeper to accommodate a regular 5.25" speaker.

If you're not too picky, you can get the stock speaker mount & grille and remove grille like this.
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The 5.25s that are on the back doors are a different style grill, and the grill mounts directly to the speaker and door card with four rivets.

This is what his back door should look like since it's a '93:
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leadermoose said:
The 5.25s that are on the back doors are a different style grill, and the grill mounts directly to the speaker and door card with four rivets.

This is what his back door should look like since it's a '93:
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Yeah you need to remove it to fit a normal size speaker. The speaker grille is stupid and no one is going to take the time redesign it.

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white855T said:
Yeah you need to remove it to fit a normal size speaker. The speaker grille is stupid and no one is going to take the time redesign it.
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He said he wanted the original look, so I was giving him the info that I've got. The grill being directly mounted to the speaker without there being any bracket in between, might actually make it easier to put a better speaker behind it.
 
I've got some speakers ordered to match the ones I put in the front doors...They're behind grills, so you cant really see them...but I'll know they're there, and I'll know they match. That's all that matters.

They're supposed to be here tomorrow. If I'm able to get to them this weekend, I'll try to document the process. So, we'll see what happens...
 
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