T5 door speakers

[Okaruss]

Do the T5 front doors accommodate 6x9 speakers?
If so is it much of a task to remove the door linings?

[T5Pete]

pretty easy. I've got 6.5's installed in mine. removing door card is easy, you have to drill the rivets holding the speaker in and then make up wood speaker spacers to adapt the very large hole to what you want, you'll need depth to stop the speaker hitting the window. I'd also recommend putting dynamat or similar over the thin alloy door panel and some on the actual plastic door card too. it's pretty tinny in there. stock wiring seems ok but i did replace mine as i put an amp in too.

[tapsy]

I had aftermarket speakers installed but have had a problem of water coming in the footwell?
the orig speakers wires are wired in front of the speaker, most others are not, so we thought that was the problem
we have tried numerous times to stop the leak but it still happens,
it happens to both doors? although we seemed to have stopped the left door.

[MultiplexMan]

@Tapsy

Are the new speaker cables running through the same grommets or did the installer simply cut the plugs off the original speaker cables?
- If the latter then it should not be the A pillar cable grommets;
- If the former, check the A pillar grommets. If they are loose or there is an excessive gap, water can run along the cables into the cavities.

If the water is coming from the door and then running into your footwell, that is different problem! Water maybe working from the "wet" side (glass side or back of speaker) and running along the back of the door cards. A lot of installers ditch the membrane that sits behind the door cards...

[tapsy]

@Tapsy

Are the new speaker cables running through the same grommets or did the installer simply cut the plugs off the original speaker cables?
- If the latter then it should not be the A pillar cable grommets;
- If the former, check the A pillar grommets. If they are loose or there is an excessive gap, water can run along the cables into the cavities.

If the water is coming from the door and then running into your footwell, that is different problem! Water maybe working from the "wet" side (glass side or back of speaker) and running along the back of the door cards. A lot of installers ditch the membrane that sits behind the door cards...

yes it is coming in the footwell, the installer has had the cards off about 4 times to try and fix, and added like a cover around speakers but it still comes in??
the back of speaker is getting wet (you can see the wood piece he put in has had water on it) and the water does comes out the door card at the bottom.

[Sunny43.5]

My T5 has a killer stereo a tip here for you , use 6.5 s either midbass or full range in the door trims then fit tweeters into the original dash points they work fine as they fire the high frequencies up the inside of the screen giving very good separation .If you can add some extra sound deadner where ever you can as T5Pete stated dynamat or what we used was a heavy duty compressed wool wadding used by motor trimmers . In our vans we have completly stripped every trim from the van includung the roof and have glued this product to every external metal surface , also I stuufed 4 inch foam blocks into pillars etc to stop road noise . Do not do this to the front doors as they are "wet" areas you can only use sound deadner as long as it cannot get wet . So end result two 12inch Pioneer subs/ Pioneer tweeters and midbass in doors and dash , crossovers plus a AudioControl Matrix Line driver and two amps and no rattles !!!! Howard [If its too loud then you are too old ] PS I am 59 and growing old disgracefully .

[MultiplexMan]

Of course you could just go for...but I do like my door pockets