Fitting speakers in door cards

[Alan W]

In my quest to improve the sound system l'm thinking of fitting small but powerful mid range speakers in the door cards (and fit new tweeters whilst l'm at it and replace footwell speakers with proper woofers).

I am understandably very cautious about cutting my pristine door cards so l have just sourced a secondhand one to experiment with. I'm planning on taking the car to a local car audio specialist to see whether fitting speakers in the door cards is possible as l understand that space is tight.

Has anyone previously done / tried to do this?

Also can anyone provide a good photo of the door with the door card removed so l can show the audio guy so he doesn't have to pop the door card off to look?

 

[bertiejaffa]

http://zroadster.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44017&p=406428#p406428

 

[GazHyde]

Are the currents speakers & head unit original, as you can do quite a lot by just upgrading those to start with.

You will get a boost in quality just changing the head unit, but compliment it with better (or bigger) speaker replacements and you will be quite pleased. I would personally not touch the door cards, but that's just me.

There are some after market options for door cards from Jehnert (which is probably what Bertie has linked to as I think he has some). A bit expensive, but saves you trashing yours! Click on the British flag to have it convert to English.

http://www.jehnert.de/en/shop/doorb...n/bmw-z3-doorboards-with-3-way-soundsystem-2/

or

http://www.jehnert.de/en/shop/doorb...-en/bmw-z3-doorboards-with-3-way-soundsystem/

 

[Alan W]

Yes gazza l have installed an alpine head unit and upgraded the footwell and rear speakers. One mistake l think l have made is to keep the factory amp... as output from the modern 50w head unit is then being amplified by a crappy little circa 1999 amp. That may be one issue but l think there are more things that could be done to help improve the sound; which although currently a bit better than it was, still falls well short of what l consider as acceptable

 

[bertiejaffa]

There are some after market options for door cards from Jehnert (which is probably what Bertie has linked to as I think he has some). A bit expensive, but saves you trashing yours! Click on the British flag to have it convert to English.

http://www.jehnert.de/en/shop/doorb...n/bmw-z3-doorboards-with-3-way-soundsystem-2/

or

http://www.jehnert.de/en/shop/doorb...-en/bmw-z3-doorboards-with-3-way-soundsystem/

Thanks for that Gaz, couldnt find the originals - there were a set of the first ones on Ebay recently. My car came with them already fitted so I can't argue about them but having seen both versions I would personally go for the 2nd link, however brand new they do seem very dear.