Speaker grill install

Hey everyone!

 

So finally enough was enough, I'm tiered of not having real speaker grills for my rear speakers (the fronts aren't much better). So I decided I'm going to pull out the rear package tray, cut out all that plastic crap and mount two BOSE speaker grills from my old Nissan Maxima.

 

My question for all of you is, how do I remove the rear tray? How much other stuff do i have to remove? and how hard its going to be?

 

From the looks of it i have to remove the upper portion of my rear seat, and the two rear quarter window trim pieces. The reason i haven't just tried myself is I'm kind of intimidated about pulling the top of my rear seat out, Ive done interior work before but Ive never taken apart one of these seats.

 

Any and all advice or suggestions will be appreciated, thanks for reading

 

It's a piece of cake. Pull the two bolts out that hold the bottom seat in place. Lift the front upwards. It hooks into the top part. Pull the three bolts out that hold the top part down. Now slide the seat back up. Don't tilt it. It has a couple tabs that just slide into the chassis. Just lift the whole thing strait up. That's it!!

Oh, and when you install it... Don't forget to move your seat belts out from behind it. I was in a hurry the first time I put mine back together and hade to pull it apart again to pull the damn seat belts back out.

Thank you, I'm glad it's going to be easy. I'll probably go check it out later today and solidify whether or not what i want to do is possible. Maybe I'll take some pics, but in short my plan is to cut the plastic honey comb over the speaker and also cut 4 small (maybe 1/4") around the opening. The grills I want to install are metal and have 4 small tabs which I intend to just pull the old insert Tab A into slot B and bend them on the underside.

Soooo, I totally just did this project... It's not perfect but here's some pics I took real quick with my phone I'll have to add a finished pic later because it was too dark by the time I was done.

nice job! can't wait to see the finished pictures! Did you have the grills countersunk into the carpet thing or did you have them sit on top?

I've always though that the center space in the rear deck could use a SUB.

 

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/FFB324A9.jpg

looks like an element to cook on lol

Those are Bang and Olufsen Audi premium speakers:

 

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/2C5EDA0C.jpg

 

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/8206EC7D.jpg

looks like an element to cook on lol

 

And they DO look like heating elements on a stove top.

Here they are, maybe I'll take some better ones after i wash my car and maybe I won't. Either way i figured something is always better than nothing

 

@WESTcoast - They are just sitting on top of the carpet, when I cut the openings below them I didn't feel like spending hours making them perfectly matched so i just hacked it out and covered the gnar with fabric. The grilles themselves have four tabs which fit into slots I cut, around the hole (the last pic in my 3rd post) and then I bent them underneath

I did this mod a few months ago...like the others said its pretty simple. I put in some polk db speakers. They sound great and i love the look. Crappy pic but this is it

owned.

I checked out the Polks and they were very nice sounding coaxials. Better than Kickers by quite a margin.

Yeah I highly recommend anything polk. I have a full set up of polk stuff in my boat and it really kicks some a**

I'm going to put some Polks in the wifey's SS first, and then put some in mine. She get's pissed if my sound system sounds better than hers, lol.