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Old 3rd September 2003, 10:03 AM
Lars1776 Lars1776 is offline
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I have another pic but no need to post.
Takes three tries for me to get ONE pic let alone dubble up on a page!!!!
Will run the car with the small 5" opening cut, NOTE YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT REMOVING THE DOOR PANEL!!!!!!!!!

HOWEVER

You risk the chance of cutting the OE speaker itself at the front corner, where the curve of the lower storage pocket/spkr blocker sits. I was lucky, only sliced the black overlay a couple inches.

Gotta still realize we have still cut the effective area of that stock speaker in half (do the pi R squared trick), my gut says in a wek I will have a much larger hole cut see templetes.

Good Luck, IMHO this is a no brainer.

PS- a heavy utility knife edge works better than a file to smooth edges of your newly cut opening. ALso angle the saw in slightly towards the CL of the speaker to avoid chopping into all that heavy tubelike thing they have cast in. My cut was made at the groove between the fake speaker grille and the textured body of the lower area. Save in case U want to silicone them back in place later....
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Lars
6 years of 'Luv mah PTee
but now ready for a change
Fun while it lasted, whatever
happened to 'The car people'
at Chrysler and dealers???????
SAD
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2002 base model stick, with varied original mods....
now a New Yorker model....