Thread: Replacing mid/high line mid-range door speaker

Anyone replaced the mid range front door speaker on their mid or high line vehicle?

My passenger side has been sounding horrible lately, so I pulled mine out of the door this morning. The assembly can be dismantled:




It's just a matter of pushing on the tabs in these holes with a flat head screw driver:



Found the reason for the poor sound quality:





A single genuine Land Rover replacement is nearly $140.00 - XQM000510PUY | DOOR SPEAKER FRONT MID-HI RANGE DIS2 | Land Rover | Discovery 2 - 1999 to 2004 | Britcar (UK) Ltd

So instead I'm looking at generic speakers to replace it with. The speaker measures approximately 64mm and to mount it in the factory grill/tube it's approximately 66mm. But as you can see, unlike most speakers it's frame is round without the mounting holes - perhaps a dremel can carefully cut these off? Otherwise discard the factory grill and mount straight on the door trim.

Otherwise maybe I just put a set of 3" or 4" coaxles in there instead - the tweeter might not get much work as the amplifier seems to have the bandpass built into it.

According to Rave, the factory specs are 4 ohms and 30 watts.

Check eBay dude. You can find better speakers for cheaper. And just swap the speaker itself to keep factory look if that's what you're after