[Evlengr]

door speaker installation and related ideas:

ok her is a link that I did on another website.
You will need to scroll down a bit on the page but the info is there.

I use the same moniker and name.

Sorry I have been tardy, but life has been a little more hectic than usual.

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...=451804&page=2

DISCONNECT BATTERY if you have air bags in door so as not to fire them off.

I take no responsibility for any damage or mistakes made following this guideline

Here is the write up in case link does not work:

The problems are depth and placement as you will see by the pics. BMW has managed to make it near impossible to use any speaker with a large magnet depth and circumference. I'll let the pics speak and ask me any questions to fill in the blanks.

The nice thing is that they leave an easy spot to insert 1 inch tweeters if you have the basic speakers at this time

BTW the easiest part is removing the door panels.

3 screws --door with no air bag

4 screws --door with air bag (under "air bag" tab).


Carefully pry the wood inserts starting at the bottom with a nylon pry tool. NO METAL pry tool. Use a twisting clock wise motion and they should come up easily.

Use a torx 20 screwdriver to remove screws.
lift panel from bottom and pull out.

Disconnect wiring for windows by carefully pulling out molex connector.

Disconnect door handle cable by pulling down slowly and un hitch small red tab insert, then left up nylon connector.

Once all wires are disconnected lift door panel straight up (I put the window almost all the way down to prevent erroneous scratches).

Don't forget to disconnect speaker wires from speaker.

The rest should be self-explanatory from pics but feel free to pm or post.

Also included is a basic schematic of how I designed my system.

And the link provides a lot or useful info that others have done as well.