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Civic Door mounts

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Forum Name: Car Audio
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URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=39676
Printed Date: July 09, 2025 at 7:46 PM


Topic: Civic Door mounts

Posted By: hersheyloc
Subject: Civic Door mounts
Date Posted: September 24, 2004 at 11:45 AM

Hey, I have an 89 Civic Hatchback, and I just bought these two killer Rockford 3-ways to put in the doors. When I went to install them, I found that they were too big for the mounting basket. I know I can just cut out the back of the basket, but my friend told me that he had some deeper speakers and when he cut out the back of the basket and mounted the speakers, the windows wouldn't roll down all the way...hmmm.. So I just wanted to know if anyone else had this problem, and how you went about fixing it. Lemme know.

Hersh




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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: September 24, 2004 at 12:51 PM

In some vehicles, the window track can also be spaced back. If it is possible, remove the bolt that holds the bottom of the window track in place. Replace the bolt with a longer one with a spacer on it between the window track and the inner door skin. The next thing to try is to make a mounting spacer for the front of the door out of 1/4" to 3/4" mdf (resin it as well). IF the windows are the manual crank type, then care must be taken for the speaker not to come to far out of the door as the window crank or your knuckles may hit the speaker grill. Failing that a nice shallow mount speaker is a good idea. I recommend the Concept NEO series. They have a tiny small miniscule neodynium magnet that makes these speakers ideal in vehicles where a conventional speaker will not fit.

www.conceptconcept.com



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Posted By: dpaton
Date Posted: September 24, 2004 at 3:22 PM
Cut the baskets, and then roll the windows down. Make sure the RF's clear. My '95 was the same way. I have about 3/16" behind my components, and it's no problem. Kodas won't fit, but I got over that a while back posted_image

If they dont' fit, and you don't mind a little work, use a spacer ring, and rebuild the grille covers as needed.

-dave

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