How to remove tweeters from tweeter pods?

[flybmw]

Hi all!

I want to replace OEM tweeters with new ones, but struggling to remove the stock ones from tweeter pods. Please, help. Anyone experiences this? Are tweeters glued or what? How can I remove them without breaking the tabs, etc. I don't care about stock tweeters and am ready to break them without harming the housing.

[jas025]

Search around on this and I'm pretty sure you'll find posts on it. When I took mine out I had to break the glue that holds the old one in by going round the edge of the pod between the plastic that holds it in with a knife. There was a little damage to the back of the pod but nothing that's visible from above.

I replaced the originals with Alpine ones - there was a mount in the Alpine kit that fitted in really well afterwards and Araldited in.

From my post that I did on it:

Also removed the tweeter pods and prised out the old nokia tweeters thanks to some posts on here.





New tweeters part of the Alpine component set that I bought removed from the default pod that they come with.



There were quite a few different pods that you could use to install - chose the one for flush fitting and then got some araldite to glue them in place.



Tweeters then click into place.



Not installed them yet - one crossover is in place, got to install the other one on the drivers side and then wire them up at the weekend.

Sound from the little pioneer amp that I found is already a great improvement but the sound stage is a little rear focussed because of the lack of treble currently at the front. Looking forward to hearing this when the tweeters are in place!

[harry_p]

As above really, I just cut around the glue and pulled the guts out, then glued the new ones in.

Invisible from the front.

[flybmw]

Thanks folks a lot! I tried removing glue with knife. It works but a bit slow)))

[flybmw]

I did it. Thanks again.