Front Speakers Installation

Once upon a time (yeah, that's a way to start a story!), I was on my way to the bay area from Fresno, cruising on the 99 freeway, listening to "Limp Bizkit". All of a sudden, my right front speaker start making a funny buzzing sounds on bass. It was so bad that I have to turn down the bass all the way. Later, the buzzing became so bad that I have to switch off the front speakers. Time for a new set of front speakers ...

After a couple months, trying to find out how to replace the front speakers, the dimensions of the front speakers, which ones to get, no time to do it ... I finally finished the replacement work, and here it is ...

I picked Pioneer TS-G1045, 4" 2-way speaker. They do the job the right (which is turning electrical signal into sound waves), they fit the car, and they fit my bills (I don't think I want to spend $100 for a pair of front speaker ... yet ;-)

I have to/chose to take the lower part of the dash off. May be there are ways to get around this (if you know, tell me), but I just think that it's fun to take the dash off and put it back on again. :-)

I started with the right hand side. First of all, use a small flat screw driver to take off the speaker grill and the covers for the screw #3 & 8. Then take the screw #1 - 8, 12 out.

You should be able to take the lower part of the dash out at this point. It will look like this:

Then you can choose to take off the power cable by releasing the 2 locks on the side of the power plug. And then take out screw #9, and the 2 screws on the back. You can take the speaker box out. Take off the screw #10 & 11. 

You can then remove the speaker and unplug the power cords on the back. Take your new speaker, reconnect cords, put the speaker back in, screw the speaker box back on the front dash, put the front dash on, put all the screw back on. And wa-la, you got the right speaker done.

You are now ready for the left hand side ...