I figured I should help some people out and make this as simple as possible. After doing this install the difference in clarity and sound is night and day! The reason for me doing this is that I
could not see myself spending $250 + on new component speakers when there is no need to. Bass should come from your subs, not your door speakers.

I will break it down into several steps, some with pictures.

Tools required: Soldering Gun, Solder, Hot Glue Gun, Hot Glue Sticks (High Heat), 10mm Wrench, Flat Head Screw Driver

1. Buy your choice of aftermarket tweeters, at least 100 watts RMS (for a future amp). You could spend as little or as much as you want, it is up to you.
I chose to spend $30 and get the PowerAcoustik NB 1 Tweeters. You can buy Tweeters practically anywhere, I chose a local audio shop.

2. Remove your door panel. This is very simple, but if you are having trouble refer to this link: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24781

3. Locate the stock tweeter and unplug the wiring harness from it. Then unscrew the 10mm bolt holding it on.



4. Desolder the wires from the tabs of the stock tweeters. In this case, remember that right (+) is red and left is black (-).

5. Using a flat head screwdriver, pry the stock tweeter off of its mount. May be able to pull it up to get it off but the glue holds pretty tight.

6. Solder the new tweeter's wires onto the tabs of the mount. Remember right is red (+) and left is black (-).

7. Place your tweeter flat onto the area marked in the photo and push down on it while hot gluing all around it (do not let go until glue dries).

8. Reinstall door panel, tweeter mount, and all wiring connections, this is easier with someone helping to hold the door panel.

Hope this helped a lot of people and saved them a lot of money. Enjoy the nice crisp clear sound from your new tweeters! BTW I have an alpine amp hooked up to this setup and it sounds beautiful!

 

Awesome write up man.

 

yeah awesome write up. thanks

 

Verrry Niiiice!

 

Good job man! Easy and simple.

 

Finally a write up on this kind of project! good job! It'll def help a lot of people (incl. me). Thanks!

 

great write up.

Mods, will you please add this to the tech section for future reference? :-)

 

great write up

 

Nice write up but that hot glue will not hold up through the summer when your car sits in the sun.

 

That is why I specified "High Heat Glue Sticks." They are a bit more expensive but will not remelt like the others.

Thanks for all the input, feel free to comment on or suggest anything that I should add.

 

That's possible, but it really depends on what type of hot glue was used. With most of them that I've used that temp wouldn't be a concern, it should hold fine. If anyone is really concerned they could just supplement the hot glue with a bit of epoxy in a couple spots.

Edit: Ha, OP beat me to it.

 

nice write up... thinking about doing this now...

 

let us know how it turns out

 

I replaced my tweeters with some Polks. What I ended up doing is mounting the tweeters directly to the old mounts. I took all the plastic off the old mounts, and bent the mount a little and it went right around the magnet. From there, a couple dabs of super glue to make sure it doesn't move in the future, and I was set. The one thing that threw me off was the two sets of wires going into the original tweeter. As it turns out, you have to connect them in orer for the new speakers to work. Then again I replaced my main drivers as well, oters shouldn't have to worry about that junk. Great write-up!

 

has this been added to the tech section yet?

 

Should be added to the tech section!

Qban: how are the springs and struts and doing?

 

still havnt had a chance to put them on, it sucks I want to lower my car so bad but I have my truck apart in my garage that I have to finish first lol

 

sweet.
i didnt even realize we had tweeters there.
hahahahaha.
ill have to do this this weekend.

 

I replaced mine with Infinity ones. I just had to drill a hole in the stock bracket and mount the new tweets. No glue or anything like that.

 

I HIGHLY suggest DB Drive Platinum Series tweeters. Got them for $100 from Custom Car Audio a sponsor of mine and they sound AMAZING!. http://www.dbdrive.net/ truly incredible stuff. The other stuff is insanely expensive. I have the speed series speakers and platinum series tweeters running off a pioneer receiver and 2 clarion 12's running off a Fosgate 800rms mono amp and have the highest quality sound of anyone I know