I found plenty of great resources on this site before installing my speakers, but I wished there were more visuals. Since I'm sure I'm not the only visual-learner here, I figured I'd make a post with how I installed the door speakers today.

I didn't have any handy harnesses to use, so I ended up using a combination of the Xscorpion-HSA-6554 brackets with the stock brackets for the 5.25's. And I modeled and 3D-printed custom brackets for the tweeters to fit where the 3.5" speakers were. This method involves tearing apart the old speakers. One of my speakers blew, so I wasn't planning on ever reinstalling them.

I bought the JBL MS-52C component speakers (two 5.25" speakers with two 1" tweeters).

There are a few videos on YouTube showing how to take off the door panel, so I won't cover that. was a big inspiration as well, but it's for an R50, so there are some differences.

Here's a photo of the stock 5.25"...



The speaker is built into the bracket. The back of the speaker...

 

Here, I used a multi-tool to tear off these arms. It works best if you grab it and twist, like you're doing a barrel-roll, back and forth.





Do this to all six arms.



Rip off the back.

 

Twist off this piece as well.



Cut out the cone.



You're left with this.



Use the multi-tool to tear off more of the arms if you want, or to bend them back.

 

Here is the bracket I bought on the left.



This bracket is meant for the Honda Accord, but if you break off a few tabs, it will work just fine. Here's the first tab.

 

Now you can slide the new bracket onto the stock one.



But on the other side, these two tabs get in the way.



Tear those off.

 

Now it fits together nicely.



You'll notice two of the four mounting holes on the original bracket are now blocked.



So, drill a couple holes.



How the pieces will eventually fit together.

 

Line up the new bracket onto the new speaker.

 

Now, take the bracket back off and line up the speaker with the old bracket.



Notice how it just barely won't fit inside the rim.



We're going to cut a notch out like this.



Mark the section you want to take out. It helps to score it with a knife first.

 

Use the multi-tool again to tear it out, using that twisting method again.



Do this on all four sides.



Now it fits nicely. Sorry for the blurry photo.

 

I used these screws.





It's important that the screws don't extend beyond the lip.

 

Now put the old bracket underneath again.



Push it all together.

 

Ready to go!



Here's the driver's side door with the panel taken off. You can just leave the window controller dangling there if you want.

 

The new speaker won't clip back in to the factory harness.



So just clip that off.



Thread two sets of wires through like so.



The new bracket has a slot that allows for the wires to slide through.

 

Attach the wires to the back of the speaker and mount it.



Feed the wires for the tweeter through.



Connect the wires to the crossover.

 

Use a twist-tie around the excess wires.



Stuff them in here.



Here's that bracket I designed.



Slide the tweeter in.

 

Connect the tweeter wires.



Mount it.

 

The crossover goes here.



And now just put everything back together.

 

I got this tip from basil49. Place some tape markers on the door where each plastic peg is, so you know where to push when putting it back on. A couple of the markers fell off before I took this photo.



The only fall back is that the 2 or 3 pegs near the 5.25" speaker won't press back in because of the addition of the new bracket on top of the speaker. The panel is still very snug though and no one would ever notice. It doesn't rattle at all.

 

All back together.

 

Looks good, can you send me more details please

 

Sure. What would you like to know? Or PM me if you want.

 

I'm thinking of installing a pair of Kicker 40CS674 6-3/4" 2-way Speakers. I didn't want to install separate tweeters because that was going to complicate the process a bit more and this is the first time I'm doing this. Those pictures help a lot so just wanted to say thanks! I don't have a bracket so I'm not sure yet what I'll do to mount the new speakers to the old bracket... I guess that's something I'll have to figure out once I get to them lol.

 

You can mount new speakers to speaker rings made out of MDF, they're very easy to make if you are handy with a jigsaw.

 

Actually the speakers I bought fit perfectly (Kicker 40CS674 6-3/4" 2-way Speakers). I didn't need to do anything special, no brackets, etc. It was a pretty quick swap. I did have to screw them on top of the plastic but I was fine with that.

The audio feels completely different. I know they are not the best they can be but I'm happy now .

Thanks for the reply!

 

Cool! I'm glad this could be of some help.