Speakers in door held by Rivets!
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Printed Date: September 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Topic: Speakers in door held by Rivets!
Posted By: kevinbo5
Subject: Speakers in door held by Rivets!
Date Posted: April 20, 2004 at 1:17 PM
I pulled the door panel off my 98 Chevy Prizm to find rivets holding the stock door speakers in place.
I have a feeling I will have to drill them out, but once that is done, how will I mount the replacement speakers?
What a pain!
Replies:
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: April 20, 2004 at 1:28 PM
Metra makes a speaker mounting kit for this vehicle, 82-3412. This might be what you need (I've never looked at one of these cars myself.) ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: kevinbo5
Date Posted: April 20, 2004 at 2:31 PM
Has anyone seen this before?
I have some speaker adapters, but unfortunately, there are no existing holes, or screws, to use.
I think I might have to go with self-tapping screws to drill directly into the door panel.
Posted By: Javelin3o4
Date Posted: April 21, 2004 at 1:45 AM
yeah you have to drill the rivits then use self tappers to attatch the new spacer to the door then mount the new speaker to the spacer.
Posted By: kevinbo5
Date Posted: April 21, 2004 at 8:19 AM
Works like a charm... Pain in the a** though!
The wire supplied with the speakers kept breaking and pulling out from the crossover. I had to pull the woofers out three times. Very brittle stuff.
Along these lines, is it ok to have factory wire going to the crossover (which does not seem to be too small and brittle) and 16ga to the woofer?
The tweeter wire is staying intact, for the meantime. Though it looks like 18ga.
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