Door Speakers in Poverty Models?

[dave_c 10]

Hi everyone.

 

Just got my 1990 16v, it came without a headunit and front speakers so I immediately thought that someone had ripped them out before selling.

 

After a quick investigation it looks like there are no fixing/mounting points to have door speakers. How do you get around this?

 

Do I need to make something out of mdf or is there a nice little VW part I can buy?

[dragon green 4]

They mount in the door pods !

You have got door pods ?

[davidwort 0]

1990 16v won't have door speakers only dash ones, unless it had an optional 'AKTIV' system fitted, easy enough to fit some 5 1/4 inch drivers in there though, but you may have to be a little creative with fixings.

[dave_c 10]

Nothing inside the door pods, it's an early corrado, different from the later ones! Guess I'll get the mdf templates measured and cut up and secure them directly to the door. I take it I can take the feed from the dash speakers and run them to the doors without many problems?

 

I was planning on mouting the individual tweeters behind the dash grills.... Will that sound alright?

[davidwort 0]

thinking about it, I don't think the early 16v door cards had the cutout in the card for the door speakers even, I fitted some to mine though with not much effort, crossovers behind the dash and tweeters in the dash speaker locations like you say, not ideal as the tweeters will be reflecting off the windscreen, but the corrado isn't exactly ideal for top-end sound anyway :)

[dave_c 10]

Cheers! I'll give it a go when I get some free time, just need to make my peace with the awful radio loom thats been spliced to buggery!