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I have a 2001 XK8 and just bought a 2007 XK. The driver door tweeter was included, but not installed. The speaker, white plastic ring and mesh grill needs to be assembled, installed and tested. After several hours of mucking with it to no avail... does anyone know step by step, how these install into the driver door tweeter panet? Thanks!!!
It is the tweeter at the top of the door at the side mirror. There is nothing in any answer you have posted that shows assembly instructions or pictures of the same. I think I have all the parts. I have spent a lot of time trying to reassemble them into the plastic panel without success.
First, please understand that the tweeter housing is very brittle and can break or crack easily. Best to use a plastic prying tool. The housing pulls straight out. See pics and note the tabs at the top and bottom. There is an additional tab which is missing from mine as they break very easy but as far as I can tell, other than a guide, I see no purpose for it. It doesn't have metal on it and holds nothing in place.
As Sean W says, the speaker mounting parts are very frail and don’t do well as they age. My grill collapsed into the mounting housing as two of the three (I think) tabs broke off from the housing. I semi-successfully glued the pieces together but not a great repair. The tweeter mounting parts kind of twist together maybe a 10th of a rotation to lock or unlock the pieces.
Also the mirror inside cover where the tweeters mount is also fragile with three tabs I think and a push in stub. I broke one of the tabs but epoxied it together with JB Weld and that has held up well. Sean W’s pix show the inside cover so study the to see the tabs.
I have the base stereo system (6 speakers, two of which are tweeters in the front doors) and not one the fancier options that were available. Ultimately, I ended up replacing the large speakers in the doors and the tweeters with an inexpensive JBL 2 way pair with a cross over which sounds much better to me but not much needed to exceed the base system sound.
The tweeters, although not OEM mounting which obviously is crap over time, have a similar mounting housing and look just fine in the car.
Good luck and be careful with the piece parts.
reading your words, but not shown in pics as you glued it together... The chrome ring bezel apparently is supposed to have 3 clips on the back of it. Mine only has two and I can only estimate where the 3rd would be. Maybe if I find a new bezel, the 3 clips will snap everything together because at this point, the two clips on the white ring attached to the speaker have nothing to clip onto.
One step at a time... I got the bezel to lock in without glue... so after fitting the old speaker with white clip ring onto the assembly, I removed it and glued the grill into place and taped it down for the night to dry. I will glue the new speaker down when it comes in. 2 or 3 small glue drops will allow me to pry it back off it I have to. THANK YOU!!!
Last edited by Cruisin01; Oct 16, 2022 at 11:13 PM.
I am sinking fast over trying to replace the trim parts. I found a new OEM Alpine tweeter speaker cheap... I'm going to fit it, glue it and the bezel together on the housing with a few drops of good glue, clamp it, let it dry, reassemble it on the door and be done.
2007 XK tweeter installation
