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My alpine type X component stuck out to much to fit the stock grill over them, so I cut a hole in em with a dremel, turned out alright. Don't worry tho, I'm wrapping them in vinyl because they look dumb right now..any other suggestions?

Heres some pics..enjoy, let me know what you think

I would have botched that job. Nice.

That's a nice clean circle. It looks ok now, but you are right, wrapped in vinyl it will look beautiful.

Very nice... Color coordinating the vinyl wrap with the body color?

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i would do it to match the door panel

Nice, now buy a grill to cover that hole up so that you don't have a passanger kick the speaker or cut out an extension from MDF plywood so that the speaker is more flush with the door and then use the speaker's grill.

PATDIESEL wrote:Nice, now buy a grill to cover that hole up so that you don't have a passanger kick the speaker or cut out an extension from MDF plywood so that the speaker is more flush with the door and then use the speaker's grill.

For some reason none of this makes any sence to me hahaha...

I put a grill for the speaker already...see, speaker stuck out too far from the stock grill, so I cut a hole in it so I could still have something around the speaker. With out it It looks odd. The speaker is almost already flush with the door, and I'm already using the speakers grill.

i'm up in the air about this, maybe had you of cut the hole closer around the speakers ring (so that it was a really tight fit) or possibly wrap the old speaker grill in something, hmmm i dunno, good start i would say, but not done yet though

I agree. A little tighter fit around the speaker and a flush cover would look better. Keep up the good work.

Buy a larger grill to cover the entire hole, or flush up the hole in the OEM door grill.
How does that not make sense. Isn't it funny how that happens some times. Every now and then I have to read something a few times and when it comes to me I feel pretty unintelligent. lol
ps, if the speaker fits pretty much flush with the grill on it how did it not fit using the OEM grill and no speaker grill? From what I've seen most aftermarket speaker grills are not all that slim.

Ah, The speaker without the grill fits flush with the door, but it needs to sit in about an eight of an inch or so for the stock grill to fit over it, and with the speaker grill it sits just a bit further out from the door. None the less it looks ok, and works fine. just gotta get some vinyl and stretch it over. I also might make a ring of MDF to fit inside the grill to fill in the gap around the speaker.

make a template out of mdf to replace the entire original speaker grill. It will be easier to stretch vinyl over that than the original grill. It would prob look a lot better too. Just a suggestion.