looking to see if anyone has information on removing the panels on the front door and a pillar for front speaker replacement and for the rear panels wear the 6x9's are. i'm pretty sure that i could do it, just loking for any possible snags i should be looking for!!!!!!!! :banghead:

looking to see if anyone has information on removing the panels on the front door and a pillar for front speaker replacement and for the rear panels wear the 6x9's are. i'm pretty sure that i could do it, just loking for any possible snags i should be looking for!!!!!!!! :banghead:


Did you ever figure out how to remove the rear panel to access the speakers?? If so, I could use the info as well.

Thanks

Rear panels:
Fold the seats down. Lift the carpet and lay it back over the seats. As I recall you'll need to remove the trim plate at the bottom edge of the opening, held in place by a few plastic screw-looking fasteners that take a VERY light touch when "unscrewing" them or they just get poked back down, I usually just get them to back out enough to get a grip on them with something else and then just pull 'em out, they're shallow-threaded plastic screws, and go back in easiest by just poking 'em in place too.
There is a "pin" at the upper rear of the lower panel at the hatch opening, you need something very thin (jewler's screwdriver, razor blade, etc.) to carefully lift the "cap" of it away from the body and pull it out about 1/8" from there. Once the center/cap is pulled out the whole thing will come out and you can start popping the pins that hold the rest of the panel in place. There's the one screw you can see near where the seat backs are when they're up that has to come out, and there may be one more at the very front edge that I recall but if so you'll find it. The trim around the seatback latch loop will just yank out with some effort. Ittakes a little muscle to get the "tabs" of the 3 trim pieces in that area back in the right positions when you put it back together.

Front doors have a couple of bolts and screws, one in the finger pocket for pulling the door shut (and I think there's a bolt under there), one in the latch pull well (and the trim ring around it has to be popped out, careful, it breaks easily), and one more under the elbow pad (the pad just pulls off the panel, held in by clips), plus the button or screw up where the outside mirror resides, a bit hazy on that. Then you just pop all the pins around the edge and lift the panel up out of the window track and it's free except for the wiring connections to the windows/locks.