Finally got round to getting a stereo wired into the car. Fronts work fine, but rears only the tweeter bit works?? Car did have subs etc in the boot when I bought it which have since been removed, so I reckon guy that had it before me must have some how stopped the main speaker working.

Anyone any ideas to what he has done, before I go buy some new ones? There is some capacitor thing on top of the tweeter bit, is this meant to be there, other wise all other wires are connnected?

 

one of my rears does the same, if yuo poke yuor finger through teh bottom of teh basket and push teh cone, it comes to life, i thik the heat tover the years of teh sun through the glasss fooks the paper cones and makes then distort
gonna try the 6x9 route as per soemother on here
they can be made to fit under teh std grill
withoug butchering teh shelf

 

what about 7x5 aint they the propper size???

 

yep, but they seem to be harder to come by and are therefrore more expensive,

 

Have taken them out, and for one the wire going to the main cone has snapped, so was easily soldered, but the other doesn't seem to have anything obvious wrong with it, and everything is attached?

 

6x9's can be fitted very easily with the adapters that you can buy from halfords etc. anywhere that sells 'autoleads' products.. they do a conversion plate that screws to the exsisting holes and then allows you to mount a 6x9 underneath!!
done it... it works

Matt

 

cozzymay, do u have the autoleads part number, as my halfords dont list a mk5 escort rear adaptor plate...?

 

Only had my Cossie a while and when installing my system I took a look under the rears to fit my 6x9's and there was a set of Alpines already there
Front are standard thou do Autoleads do an adapter plate for these? What size speaker does it suit?

 

Gutted, didn't realise this and just sold a pair of mint audiobahn 6x9's on e-bay...

 

autoleads do a conversion plate for the front to hold component speakers!! 5" i think..

 

i made some mdf ones like radmans but one has broke so i'm currently designing metal spacer/bracket for mine to use the original ones and fit 6x9's....

if it works as well as i think i may sell them on here upgrade my account alot of us would buy one i think fairly cheap to make and work real well will keep you informed....