Thaddeus

Hey,

I just installed some Audiobahn AS40Q's (2 way speakers) in the front doors of my '86. $41.98 from Crutchfield including shipping. They fit in the holes, the wiring harness plugged right on with only a little wiggling and cussing, and the grilles that came with the speakers looks very much like the stock grilles-- they just come out about 1/8 inch proud from where the old grills fit. Installation took about 20 minutes and they sound LOTS better than the 20 year old paper-coned blown Blaupunkts that were in there. The old tweeters are still hooked up.

I'm pleased. Thought I'd pass along a low-cost option for those who don't want to drop a ton of ching on their stereo system but want to lose the buzzing and whatnot.

Cheers!

Ed Hughes

I think I could use an upgrade, may look at these. Do you have pics of the install?

How did your old grills come off-snap off, or screw? I tried to pop mine off-I think they snap off, but they didn't cooperate, and I didn't want to break them. I really need the speakers in the back replaced, and they are the same size as the doors.

Thaddeus

The speaker on the right is new. the speaker on the left is old.

I removed the old speaker by unscrewing the old grille, removing 4 screws, and slipping the wiring harness off the lugs. Installation consisted of attaching the wires to the lugs on the new speaker, screwing the speaker to the door on top of its plastic grille chassis, and popping the new grill onto the chassis, which has a groove for the purpose. Easy and quick.

DonS

I'm interested but it looks like the grilled mount is different - it's mounted on the cabin side? I have the perforated leather/panel without a grill and the speaker mounts on the inside of the panel. I have yet to find something that thin that's reasonably priced. Do you know the total depth?

Thaddeus

These won't work for you-- the back of the speaker just touches metal inside the door as it is. If it was being mounted inside the panel, it would not fit.

hacker-pschorr

Damn single speaker door panels

Bill Ball

Look at the back of these speakers. There is a big metal cover that serves no purpose. Rip, cut, tear it off. It is epoxied on, so this takes some effort. Then there is a tiny center spacer/magnet that can be chipped of the main magnet. It seems to serve no purpose either. This increases the clearance. Until I removed this crap, they would not fit in my 89 without contacting door panel. I surface mounted them and they look stock. You could make some kind of spacer, but with the crap torn off the back, these fit fine. Probably still wouldn't fit in the behind panel mounting on early cars.

I blacked out the chrome speaker brackets so they do not show through the grill. I mounted the tweeter, which is removable from the main speaker, in the stock tweeter ring too.

I agree these are surprisingly good speakers for the money. They just require some modification to fit the mounting depth.

Ed Hughes

Bill-Is there a trick to getting the snap-on-off grill off? Yours is an '89, which I assume is the same as a '91?

Bill Ball

They should pry off. You just have to work them around the outside a bit. I do not think they ever went to screw-on, but it may help to twist them a little and pry, putting pressure on the opposite side of the ring to try to create a gap where you are prying so the snap will give up its grip there.

fraggle

It isn't a snap - it unscrews. There are threads. (at least on my '87) It isn't obvious because it is tough to get ahold of.

Bill 86.5 928s

Ed...On my old 84 the door grills screwed off. Now your 928 being newer they might be different. I thought I would just chime in here and let you know............goodluck
Bill

Ed Hughes

At some point, they made a change to snap-I thought it was about '86, but it must be after '87....

fraggle

I just realized how cheap these really are. Thanks for the pointers, I just bought myself a pair. One of my larger sized speaker grille's is trashed anyway. Otherwise I'll dupe the install here and remove the tweet for install in the stock location.

Bill Ball

OK, my 89s are snap. I had some vague recollection that they may have been screw on at some point. Someone who knows, submit this to Keith's trivia thread.
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/260269-928-did-you-know.html

Thaddeus

My 86 definitely has threads on the original speaker grilles. Very easily crossed threads, at that.