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It is interesting to see another audio build in a Clio. I am debating doing one myself, but have kept to only fitting an Alpine CDE-178BT in for now. I could not be asked to fit in the 9887R head unit with the Bluetooth box!I didn't take any photos of getting the 6.5" in the doors mate but I can give an overview of what I did.
Currently started working on my first A-pillar pods.
- First I removed the door card. This was a pain as the door cards have this seal which is really strong and difficult to get off. I used a flat head screw driver to pry open the door card and then used a butter knife to "cut" the seal. I would wear some gloves too (I didn't), the seal is sticky and hard to get out of nails (does make your hands look manly though).
- I then got my 6.5" speaker and measured the depth and created a speaker ring using MDF (18mm).
- Once the ring was cut, I had to cut part of the door card which housed the stock speaker (looks like a cone).
- The speaker ring was then screwed in using the same torx screws that were holding the stock speakers in. You can make more holes for screws but I couldn't budge the ring at all.
- As I'm wiring these to a crossover located in the boot, I fed a wire through the door loom and to the back of the car. Using flat speaker cable makes this process a lot easier. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0033GGXVS/?tag=cliospnet01-21
- I then screwed in speaker in the door and then removed it again because i forgot to actually connect the wires :smiley:
Will hopefully have them fibre-glassed by end of this coming week.
not yet. Will do tomorrow when I finish the other side!! The ones I fitted are made by dan@m.a.d. Eibach do them too.
I bought mine today
Hi, yes I had a 172 cup a few years ago. Sold it in 2009 so this is me just getting back in one, will be a weekend toy which I plan to attend a few meets and shows with. I have a few plans for it one of which is indeed to lower slightly
wow, your knob is really shiny...
Give it a few days then you can frantically polish your knob
Cant wait for it lol
Mine scrubbed, so switched to 195 tyres rather than 205s and solved scrubbing for me.Removed my newly fitted rear 25mm spacers in my lunch break at work as they rubbed on the arches on its test drive. They're off to the stepdads lathe to be machined down to 15mm. Hopefully this will sort it.
not an option for me as I have 195's already. Cars was lowered on Eibachs when I bought it so knew it was gonna be tight. It'll be fine. Lucky I have the option of machining them down.
