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Anders
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My front door speakers are the standard Fiat ones and heres a quick tip for a slightly better sound that I actually discovered by accident.
Mine used to rattle like mad when the volume was turned up to a half-decent level. The speakers themselves weren't vibrating, but the rest of the door seemed to be. Bloody annoying I can tell you. I thought about getting some Dynamat or something similar to help dampen the door and stop the vibration but thought I'd make sure it wasn't something simple like a couple of loose screws. So I took my driver's door panel off, removed the speaker, put it back but it refused to stop vibrating.
Now heres the quick tip...
Mines a MkII Bravo and behind the door panel is a sheet of white polystyrene/plastic with a hole for the speaker well. In the speaker well itself is a piece of silver polystyrene although this only seems to be glued around the top half of the speaker well. If you pull this silver bit up and fold about half a centimetres worth under the top rim of the speaker so you have to put the two screws through it, therefore holding it in place....the vibrations stop. Completely.
I've done this on both speakers and theres no more vibration at all. So now I can have the volume up nice and loud without it sounding like an angry swarm of Hornets are nesting in my door.
Mine used to rattle like mad when the volume was turned up to a half-decent level. The speakers themselves weren't vibrating, but the rest of the door seemed to be. Bloody annoying I can tell you. I thought about getting some Dynamat or something similar to help dampen the door and stop the vibration but thought I'd make sure it wasn't something simple like a couple of loose screws. So I took my driver's door panel off, removed the speaker, put it back but it refused to stop vibrating.
Now heres the quick tip...
Mines a MkII Bravo and behind the door panel is a sheet of white polystyrene/plastic with a hole for the speaker well. In the speaker well itself is a piece of silver polystyrene although this only seems to be glued around the top half of the speaker well. If you pull this silver bit up and fold about half a centimetres worth under the top rim of the speaker so you have to put the two screws through it, therefore holding it in place....the vibrations stop. Completely.
I've done this on both speakers and theres no more vibration at all. So now I can have the volume up nice and loud without it sounding like an angry swarm of Hornets are nesting in my door.