How hard is it to change the speakers in a '95?

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Last week I installed a new Sony MP3 player in the Mark but the stock speakers have to go. What size are they and how do I go about accessing them?. Car is not here to look at (wife has it at work) but are there speakers on the rear deck?. Dont think so as there were only 4 speaker connections when I was installing the head unit. How hard would it be to add speakers to the rear deck?. Anyway I've got a whole bunch of stereo stuff laying around from past vechicles (amps, subs, speakers, eq's,) Thanks.
 
If you're going to add speakers to the rear deck(there are none) you'll have to remove the entire factory amp tray inside the trunk under the rear deck. Pop the trunk and you'll see that black cardboard handing down....thats all factory amps/wiring in your way.

The rear speaker grills pop off with a small flat head screw driver.

The front door panels have to be removed in order to gain access to the speakers. Not sure on the size of the speakers though.
 
4 speakers total, unless you have the JBL system that has tweeters but they are all in the same basic location. All main speakers are 6x8" in size.

The 2 in the rear are the easiest to replace, they are in the sides(there are no speakers in the rear deck and with all the equipment mounted underneath the deck it would be too hard to put them there I would think.). Just pop the covers off of them cause they are held in by clips, then its 4 9/32 bolts/screws that hold the speakers in.

The fronts are alittle more difficult cause you have to remove the door panels(which by the way easily have to weigh 10-15 lbs each!!) the access to the front speakers are easy then.
 
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You can use either 6x8 or 5x7 I would not go with components etc, because the tweeters are going to be very difficult to mount correctly. Just get two good sets of 2/3 ways.
 
J said:
If you're going to add speakers to the rear deck(there are none) you'll have to remove the entire factory amp tray inside the trunk under the rear deck. Pop the trunk and you'll see that black cardboard handing down....thats all factory amps/wiring in your way.
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Is it safe to simply unbolt all that stuff and toss it?. I would like to eliminate the rear speakers and add speakers in the rear deck for two reasons: 1. My kids ride in the back and they each have a speaker directly next to them 2. They would sound better in the rear deck because the sound would bounce of the rear window. I'm also adding 3 10" JL's and I need to figure out which amp to use, I have like 10 high end amps from previous vechicles.
 
Wait...your worried about speakers being right next to your kids but your putting in 3 JL 10" subs in?

HUH?

It would actually be better is you left the speakers in the locations that they are at for 2 reasons:
1) Remember that the area UNDER the rear deck in the trunk in not all that tall and if you put speakers down from the deck its going to make that space that much shorter.

2) with speakers AND subs in the trunk(the back half of the deck speakers would be in the trunk) you could easily distort those rear speakers simply by having the subs push too much air and over extend the smaller speakers, which equal distortion and eventually blown speakers.
 
I second what Matt is saying......putting subs in the trunk and speakers in the rear deck is just going to distort all the sound waves coming from the 6x9's in the deck.

If you're worried about your kids being next to the speakers....just fade the stereo to the front, if you've hooked everything up correctly, you'd still have the subs and just the mids/highs coming from the front speakers.

You "can" just remove the factory amps/tray but you'll have to run all new wiring for your new speakers, but if you plan on putting a bunch of amps in, than yeah....take all that crap out, but DON'T toss it....sell it!

Than you can install the new amps in that tray and bolt it back up :D
 
Nobody ever said that this is a FAMILY car. It's a grandpa car..Lincoln!!! Remember?? That's why cops leave us alone!!
 
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LMAO...you don't know how many times I've heard that. The cops don't leave me alone!
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...but yours is so 'altered', it don't look like a Lincoln anymore.... well, maybe that "HOT ROD LINCOLN". And in that song, he called his Pop from jail!!
 
Haha....naw, not that old school almost "country" song! It is true that once they see it, they change their minds, but when I tell them what I have, they always say, "isn't that those grandma cars?"
 
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