hi, i was trying to put in new speakers in my xb in the front doors and theres stupid rivets. how do u drill them out. is there an alternative that i could do thanks

 

the only alternative is to cut the speaker from the mount....this will trash your stock speakers but you'll be able to use the brackets to fit your new speakers...

to drill them out, get a bit the size of the small indent in the middle of the rivet, and just go straight through it.......it should just fall apart when you drill all the way through.......after removing the old speaker and bracket, you can easily make a new bracket/spacer out of MDF, a drill, and a jigsaw......

 

how do u do that? how does the speaker mount up

 

thats how i mounted my id's just rip out old speaker and place new one in works fine i had to make a braket to fit the rears tho
just use self tapers to mount speaker in the old mount

 

the only reason i didn't take this approach is that I didn't like the rigidity of the stock mounting brackets.....so I went with the MDF....

 

yah i should have used the mdf for the fronts i did use mdf in the rear tho .. i might still redo the fronts. i want to get some focals its a never endin battl

 

sorry im stupid but whats a self taper?

 

A self tapping screw is a screw that drills its own hole for you. These are mostly used in metal and plastic cause of the hardness of the surface.

 

it's a screw....go to a local hardware store or home depot and ask them for self tapping screws...they'll know

 

you drill out the center of the rivet with a 5mm drill bit then cut the old speaker surround and cut the basket out leaveing the center to mount your speaker to the rears have bolts so you know how to remove those do the same mutalation job to it then you can use those as a base i installed infinity 500si and 600si (deep mount fronts) they have rotateable tweeters and they sound great and are inexpensive

 

.....i think the point of cutting the speaker from the brackes is to aviod drilling out the rivets.......

 

ether way... but someone may want to remove and not know how. i also used the connectors on the basket houseing so the factory connectors could stay.

 

is there a way to be able to use the factory speaker harness with new aftermarket speakers?

 

that's what this guy just said.....he cut the wires from the basket instead of cutting and splicing the harness off...

 

thats fine if your using low power but i wouldnt recomend anything over 30-40 watts on that thin factory stuff

 

After you drill out the rivits you can get an adapter to install your new speakers. I got mine from crutchfield.
http://www.crutchfield.com/