That’s the plan Borbor, I’ve ordered some Audison tweeters and mid-rang drivers and Focal woofers. The Dynamatting is done, so once they speakers arrive and I install them, I’ll see if I need to add a sub. By the sound of things, the boot’s the way to go. I did see that a Cambridge company had installed one in a custome enclosure that sits in the boot recess in the floor. It looked good, has anyone else gone down this route?

 

Quick question - pulled everything apart to get to the subwoofers and having a bit of a time getting it back together. Both panels in front of the subwoofers in-place, but the top piece "parcel shelf" doesn't want to seat nicely against the back. Passenger side is, but driver's side is not cooperating. Any tips/tricks on getting this piece properly back in place?

 

It’s a sliding action, with everything lined up just right and then shoved rear wards into place.

 

Just pull out the shelf and look at the locating tabs at either end . It is pretty obviously how it lines up after that. Should not need to force it at all. Finger pressure will be enough to lock it back into place . Also try to creep both sides in at the same time by half a centimetre at a time to keep it going on parallel so pull back on the side you have got in so far as you may have skewed it.

 

I had a similar issue. I broke one of the orange plastic tabs and once I gave the car a blood sacrifice, it finally allowed everything back (I got a friend to help align everything after scraping my knuckles).

 

Thank you - got it in there, just needed a bit more patience/fiddling. Also managed to break the orange clip near the driver's side door, excellent. It hold together but not ideal - anyone know where I can buy more?

So I took the cheap and 'easy' route, just added a Kicker 8" Hideaway compact sub in the trunk. I'm no audiophile since I developed mild tinitus, but I still appreciate a good car stereo with a nice solid low-end... something our cars seem to be missing.

Looking at the sub setup, as you all know, the problem is there is really no enclosure at all. You're not going to get good low-end frequency response, and I'm sure folks turn the bass way up to compensate. That leads to excess response in the frequencies the drivers *can* produce, and probably over-excursion which will cause the drivers to rattle and eventually burn the motors out (doesn't help there isn't any resistance on the driver itself as it's not in an enclosure). I think there was some sort of factory update as well - probably some heavy EQing to flatten things out a bit.

My thought was to tune those drivers to what they can produce, and add something that can actually take care of things below 100hz - the thing is actually pretty impressive for how small the enclosure actually is, nothing crazy but just enough to round out the bottom end.

Makes a huge difference and really enhances the overall audio quality of the otherwise stock system. Not the most amazing thing ever but it's pretty good now, and I'm happy without too much swearing

 

Same thing happened to me with the clips - I bought these and they work.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/333132632820