Got a speaker bad in the rear door and I want to upgrade all. Asking because I don't want to pull the door panel to figure the size. What is the upgrade and size for the doors?

 

I just fitted 5.25 . They fit without any modifications but I believe 6" are the original size. Since this is a rare size some go for "6.5 but they might require slight modifications. I would definitely go for 6.5 as I think 5.25 had very little bass. I think rockford fosgate have a "6 speaker though.. good luck

 

I've fitted (8) on 2 cars: 6.5" from Crutchfield, complete with pigtail so no modifications necessary whatsoever. OEM Speaker grills retained. Most recent fitment had premium sound with tweeters in the rear doors, wired parallel to the speaker. New speakers had integral tweeter so I just removed the OEM tweeters (I was afraid they may rattle) rather than try to solder the wires to the new speakers.

 

I posted pictures of my 6.5 Infinity reference shallow mount speaker install with pictures. $100 for 4 and sound/work great.

 

Thanks guys. That helps.

 

Got to thinking about it and has anyone add dyno mat to the door when the door panel were off? Results ?

 

So.. I removed my 5.25' speakers and installed 6.5
They seemed to fit without any issues but I noticed after a while that it was actually too tight. The outer speaker bass membrane was in contact with the rim and it created a crackle sound at certain bass frequencies. Extremely annoying so I opened up everything again and added some spacers to lift the speaker away from the rim. They sound very good now. A whole lot better than the 5,25's. Finally a little bit of bass.

Just a heads up, if you want 6.5' , unless you've installed lots of car stereo before, and know how to do this properly 😊

 

Been busy and still have not ordered speakers but going for the 6.5 and thanks for the heads up.

 

Consider Alpine SPS-610 as well.

They are 6-1/2 and easily fit the cramped XJS doors? The holes did not line up, so you'll need to drill some in, but that's all I needed to do.

Don't even consider sticking with 5-1/4"...

 

6.5" with holes that line up, re-use the original speaker grills and come with pig-tails for a plug-n-play wiring solution are easily obtained from Crutchfield's. The only caveat is that after you remove the door panel from the door, you need to remove the inner panel from trim panel to get the 6.5" in-place. This activity is not required to remove the original speaker from its mooring.

 

aholbro1,

Can you give us the part number or other identifying info for the Crutchfield speakers you used? I'm trying to help a friend find speaker options for his '97 X300.

Cheers,

Don

 

Sorry Don, even though it's only a month ago...I thought I'd put such info in Post #3. Memory is just simply shot, I guess. Here's what I fit to the 96 with Premium Sound:
Speakers:
https://www.crutchfield.com/p_206KS6...S60.html?tp=95

Pigtail:
https://www.crutchfield.com/p_120710...s.html?tp=3097

A few years ago, I fit the Kicker DS60 to my 95 sans premium sound. Not sure if its the extra power of the amp, but the KS seem to sound better than the DS's.

But if you go to their site and enter the vehicle, you'll see they list a range of speakers from "Memphis Audio" and "Kicker" from $39.99/pr up to $229.99/pr with fitment notes. This is for 96 XJ-6: https://www.crutchfield.com/g_400/Al...tml?tp=105&l=C

 

Where are the pics you posted?