Golf Mk V - Upgrading rear door speakers - anybody succeeded?

[Juancho]

The psec says Mounting depth top 2ins

Mounting depth bottom 25/16ins

I'm not sure what they mean by top and bottom here......

David

[dozbreaker]

please,i am very confused,cand somebody please tell me how to remove the rear door panel for the models with non-electric windows???i can`t remove the handle that moves the window up and down,and this prevents me from removing the door panel.

[PHSSLL]

Hi All,
I’ve now fitted my Polk speakers to the rear. These are the 6.5 ins Polk db 651s coaxial speakers. The speakers are a direct fit on the VW holes. So, easy really, you drill out the rivets and connect up to two of the four wires that go to the bass speaker. You can easily identify the two speaker wires that end up at the tweeter by colour-they are simply paralleled at the bass speaker with absolutely NO crossover element there, which is bad audio practice! The tweeter is simply protected from the strong bass by a capacitor (and if there is also a resistor it is well hidden behind the tweeter. ) The way I connected therefore leaves the tweeter in place in case you want to convert back to standard some day.

Of course, mounting the speaker direct on the existing holes means that the VW plastic mount that puts the speaker into the ‘grill tube’ is not used but acoustically that is advantageous as opposed to a problem.

One challenge is: how do you mount the speaker when you cannot get to the rear of the speaker as that is in the internal door space? You could use rivets as VW do, but I used self tappers plus the self tapper clip brackets that are commonly available. To keep these in place whilst I mounted the speaker I glue gunned these to the inner door panel, holding them there with the screw. Then I removed the screw, and mounted the speaker before screwing it up tight.

Most importantly, how does it sound? I am using Focal Polyglass VR3 3 way components in the front doors + a Focal 75watts a channel amp. These Polk speakers are a serious bargain! Considering the Focal’s cost 6 times more, the Polks hold up extremely well. They are articulate, expressive and smooth and only £50 (in the states). The combination with the Focals gives stunning sound and was another really worthwhile upgrade. Sound quality is now on a par with a top notch home stereo with vocal articulation better than most! BUT, if I was doing this again, I think I would be more than happy with two lots of the Polks, one up front and one up rear, they are truly one of life’s great bargains!

Juancho

Hi i read your post with interest as i was looking at getting some focal or hertz 3 ways and have never heard of polk speakers what would you reccomend as a upgrade for the front as i intend to leave the rears as they are for now

The head unit i am running is the Rns touch screen sat nav option without any further amplification casically i just want to replace the standard speakers

many thanks in advance

paul