This is how I did my door speakers to an aftermarket set, this is a do at your own risk because you have to destroy the stock speakers to do it, at least thats the only way I seen to get it done!! Now if you were to order a set through like http://www.crutchfield.com they should supply the basket with them but I could be wrong. BTW the speaker is a 5.25 inch speaker and pretty much all of them should work, I got pair a while back when I got the car, just decided to acctually put them in beacause one of my stock speakers blew!
Here is a picture of the stock speaker and basket, the speaker is molded DIRECTLY to the basket so theres no way to remove the basket and speaker and not ruin the speaker!
First take your finger and get it under the foam on the basket, work your way around the basket in SMALL section to save the foam and not rip it to shreds! Now here comes the part where you have to ruin the stock speaker and once you start theres no turning back , take a razor blade and cut along the surround to seperate it from the basket (its the only way you can do it and save the basket)
Next use any cutting tool you'd like (I used a dremel with a cutting wheel) and cut the plastic the molded to the magnet (it wont be needed for the aftermarket speaker and theres no real way to use it anyways). The pic shows the locations of the plastic that needs to be removed.
Now you can lay your aftermarket speaker in the basket and screw it into place, like I said most should work just fine. The ones I had were acctually a little small for the opening but nothing noticable! Screw it in place and replace the stock foam that you took out (told you that keeping it would come in handy) I just used a little glue stick to make it tacky and put it back on.
I just spliced the wires using a wire connector that you screw instead of crimp (awsome and easy as hell). Now one thing that didnt seem to make aany sense to me but I felt as tho it should was that it didnt seem to matter what wire was connected to what wire. I dont have any distortion so I'm not complaining, and maybe I just got it right the first time haha
Place the speaker back in the door and replace the panel and your good to go.
EDIT: Let me if know if theres something that I missed or something you might want to see on here in more detail
Here is a picture of the stock speaker and basket, the speaker is molded DIRECTLY to the basket so theres no way to remove the basket and speaker and not ruin the speaker!
First take your finger and get it under the foam on the basket, work your way around the basket in SMALL section to save the foam and not rip it to shreds! Now here comes the part where you have to ruin the stock speaker and once you start theres no turning back , take a razor blade and cut along the surround to seperate it from the basket (its the only way you can do it and save the basket)
Next use any cutting tool you'd like (I used a dremel with a cutting wheel) and cut the plastic the molded to the magnet (it wont be needed for the aftermarket speaker and theres no real way to use it anyways). The pic shows the locations of the plastic that needs to be removed.
Now you can lay your aftermarket speaker in the basket and screw it into place, like I said most should work just fine. The ones I had were acctually a little small for the opening but nothing noticable! Screw it in place and replace the stock foam that you took out (told you that keeping it would come in handy) I just used a little glue stick to make it tacky and put it back on.
I just spliced the wires using a wire connector that you screw instead of crimp (awsome and easy as hell). Now one thing that didnt seem to make aany sense to me but I felt as tho it should was that it didnt seem to matter what wire was connected to what wire. I dont have any distortion so I'm not complaining, and maybe I just got it right the first time haha
Place the speaker back in the door and replace the panel and your good to go.
EDIT: Let me if know if theres something that I missed or something you might want to see on here in more detail
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