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I picked up a set of Sony 6" two-ways which fit into the stock holes and even had the right triangle-pattern screw holes...

$49 at JB Hifi ...

Take in your old speaker as a template - makes it easier to line up the holes

J

Dude, I have some 8" pioneers you can have for $80 if you think they're suitable.

Perhaps you should drop around some time (Winthrop).

I have bought 3 different head units over the last 12 months all from Cash converters, the last 2 were about $120 each. It might give you an idea of what you can get if you hunt around.

I'd rather Alpine than a supercrap brand and they play MP3/ipod etc.

I'm pretty happy with them, but then again, i drive with the roof down a lot and listen mostly to the ABC

But when i have a CD in and the roof up, they are about 100% better than the stockies....

I'd LIKE a decent bit of bass, but in this little car and this little head-unit (Sony Old-School Cassette / CD Changer), it will do for the moment...

J

New speakers and an amp will make a bigger difference than speakers alone. Thats initially what I did with my car. I got a small 2 channel Pioneer amp that fits in one of the tunnels beside the fuel tank so I didn't loose any boot space.

Jaycar for speakers.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.as ... BCATID=609

And what I have in my car currently.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.as ... BCATID=602

Powered by a Alpine Amp and Alpine headunit with a external source adaptor.

J

I would go the Jaycar kevlar splits Juffa linked. They are some of the best speakers I have heard for the money...

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=CS2329&CATID=15&form=CAT&SUBCATID=602

With your budget i'd be looking at jaycar splits and if you can stretch it just a little, a small amp to in with them. You will see an improvement with just the speakers, but you'll see much more with even a 50w cop behind them.

Edit: beat me to it green comet

Are you coming to the meet up this Saturday?

So that means you can make it to the monthly club run?

MDF and a jigsaw are your friends here. Make yourself a small spacer to go between the speaker and the door and you should be right. Will sound better than straight mounting metal on metal too.

You can buy premade ones from autobarn/supercheap/etc but they won't fit as well and cost FAR more than a sheet of MDF. Or you could take it to a car audio shop and get them to make you up a pair, but again cost.

If you didn't own/have easy access to a jigsaw I could see those options but really, are you that lazy?

CJ5 wrote:Thanks Jeo. I think I'll have to give that a try - unless someone has a simpler (lazier) option

There are things called spacers for speakers that are avaliable at Jaycar, you could use them to space your speakers out.

I am curious but what size speakers did you buy to have this issue? My impression of the 5 door kick speakers were 6x8 inch. A standard 6x8 inch speaker would have fit fine.

Regards

Edited

after some searching..

break wrote:The tweeters I can't give you an accurate measurement (although they do look like the 'standard' size for most tweeters), but the mid-range speakers are 5x7 items.

The door holes are actually suited for an "8 round speaker

So the standard mid-range are 5x7 but the hole can fit a 8" round speaker.. This means you have multiple options to fit a speaker in this hole.

The best bet would be the get the trim of and double check that this is true... take the speaker into a shop and get a direct replacement if you dont want to muck around

A direct replacement would be something like this

Yep hole is 8", I would be more worried about depth, but it's not an issue with the Jaycar splits, I've had them in for more than 2 years now and they are still going fine.
I also just made an MDF mount for them, doesn't take long, just use cardboard to get a template (from either stock speaker mount or door itself) copy onto MDF, cut, then use the template that comes with the jaycars to cut out the centre.

Even if you go for an OEM sized replacement, I'd still recommend making up some MDF spacers. MDF has a little bit of play in it which really helps to absorb some of the vibrations that would otherwise be there if you mount straight to the door. A hard plastic spacer will get you the same problem.