Speaker issue

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I started on a mission Saturday to replace my stock door speakers with another set of 5 1/2s. I saw a few threads indicating that it wouldn't make much/any difference, but I already had the speakers and I think one of them was blown.

Any way, From what I read on other posts I should have been able to just take the door skin off and remove the speaker from the "pod" and replace it with the new one.

However, once I got to the pod and took off the grill, I do not see anyway to get that speaker out of there. Thinking I might need to get under the stock speaker, I pretty much destroyed the stock speaker cone. In looks like it is all one bracket with no way to remove it. This is on a 98.

Am I missing something???

[Burg Boxster]

if it's OEM, your door speakers are mounted in a tuned port (pod as you call it). It should look like this and have 4 screws (red arrows below) in the corners holding the grille cover and speaker in the port. Once you release those, the cone will pop right out. It did on my '99 w/ a little effort.

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That is what I did. But it didn't come out. I actually ripped the cone out. Underneath there is a metal bracket that forms the back of the speaker. It appears to be all one piece tied into the pod.

It is OEM.

[Burg Boxster]

Interesting as every one I've seen is built like the picture posted - including the MY98 I've looked at.

It's possible, not sure how likely, the plastic enclosure melted around the speaker frame (would take an extremely high temp though).

Ok, go to plan B and pull the whole pod out. It's held in w/ only 4 torx screws in the corners (green arrows below). Can't imagine it's open in the back as that would defeat the entire purpose but take a look. At the very least, you'll have it removed to make it easier to work on and see what's holding it up.



Also, try and post a pix of what you have as it would help.

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I finally got it out. Determined that it must come out, I stuck a large screwdriver in there and pried. It finally popped out. It was in there much tighter than I would have expected. Plus, just from looking at it, I really couldn't tell what came out and what stayed.

Thanks for the help!

[shaman1204]

Let us know if you can really tell a difference with the new speaker.