Touring Rear Speakers

Post Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:46 pm

Any one know what size they are. Im guessing they are 6x4 but havent had a real good look at them..
Cheers
Mark

Post Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:39 am

I had my speakers out of my touring the other day, they are just 4" round ones.

I hope this is of some help.

Post Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:09 am

Thanks for that..

Post Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:40 pm

Dan325iSport wrote:I had my speakers out of my touring the other day, they are just 4" round ones.

I hope this is of some help.

yep mine are the same

Post Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:21 pm

I have spoken to a few people and a couple of car sterio places and their opinion is that they are not worth replacing/upgrading as its just two small to get anything decent in there.

What you can do is reinforce the door covers each side and mount say a 6X9 in each side. Its what im looking into as I have a set of speakers i took out of my last car before i sold it.

Post Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:43 am

Yeah I was thinking about that as well. Perhaps use a couple of peices of MDF. The problem Im guessing is Vibration. Im sure you could secure the flaps/MDF so that it wouldnt vibrate but still be able to use them. just got to worry about the things that are behind them. might need to secure everything down. and loads of damping material. well worth the effort I would have thought!!!

Post Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:33 pm

Have a word with Twiggy as he is about to do the same mod

Post Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:45 pm

done,..

no flappin or vibrating.. but in dire need of soundproofing, .. at "reasonable" levels u can quite easily hear it

Post Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:18 pm

Did you need to add strength to the doors. I think they might rattle if they were not screwed to, say a bit of MDF

Post Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:18 pm

not at all, the panels are very snug, and the carpet acts as a sort of vibration muffler aswell

the rear of the panels is reinforced with criss cross slating so the pannel is quite solid.. of course i only have "complimentary" speakers in there,. if u were gonna chuck some ball busters in then id probably mdf it aswell

Post Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:39 pm

i've got kenwood duel mags in the standard place and must say that they rock

Post Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:32 pm

TOURINGDADDY wrote:i've got kenwood duel mags in the standard place and must say that they rock

What on earth are dual mags

, got any info or links?

Post Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:06 pm

will sort out link

Post Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:15 pm

link baby

http://www.kenwood-electronics.co.uk/pr ... k2=7&k3=67

and pic

Post Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:46 pm

TOURINGDADDY wrote:link baby

Cheers daddy

Post Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:05 pm

Looks like I have a project for next weekend now.

Has anyone made a 'parcel shelf' For a touring. Ive actually drawn up some plans which includes some mountings for 2 6x9 stelth stylee. was going to have a go at making one just to see what it would look like. Luckly I can get free MDF so it would just be a day project and Ive see some material that matches the interior. could be total crap but you never know

Post Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:28 am

I made a shelf for my old 316i Touring, still got it somewhere.

I made it from 18mm MDF, it sat just below the load cover and it had 4 infintiy 6x9's in it.

You will notice where the load cover sits there is a recess, in this recess I sat a metal dowel (bit of studding would work) that reached accross the car, Perfect mounting/pivotpoint for a shelf. Onto this I mounted a piece of wood that fitted between the trim. Then on the underneeth of this you can attach the mdf sheet that is cut to fit close to the trims either side (you could use the boot carpet as a rough guide/template).

But you need to hold the shelf up somehow.
The level of the shelf will come accross the side access/storage pockets.

I made up two supports that consisted of 20mm square tubing with a triangular piece of metal welded to the top. This piece of metal was formed over the top of the doors to locate and keep the supports upright. The triangular pieces of metal were mounted near the top of the supports so while one face of the support is up against the storage door the other is sticking out 20mm into the boot compartment. If you judge correctly the mounting of the plates to the 20mm square supports, the shelf will sit on top of the supports. I inserted a plastic cap into each end of the support so it wouldn't mark the shelf or carpet.

I hope this has made some sense as it is quite hard to describe without pics.

If you have any q's, feel free to pm me