[W126 Coupe] Rear speaker grills

[Matt Petersen]

Today I finally got around to pulling my rear seat and rewiring the rear
speaker cabling for my yet to arrive 6.5in Eclipse speakers.
 
I have already recabled the front when I put in the new black JVC sleath
head unit and Pioneer front 4in speakers and ran speaker wiring for the
rears down into the passenger compartment behind the kick panel so all
that was left was to recable from the rear speakers forward.
 
I pulled the existing speakers which required pulling the speaker
grills. These simply pull forward and up but the second grill snapped a
little lug off an interference fitting despite coming off the same way
as the first. On both grills the foam is collapsing completely.
 
What are the options here? I have the broken lug piece which might go
back together with some glue and survive one insertion. The foam is
captive between the plastic frame and the metal grill outer which is
wrapped around the frame trapping the foam.
 
The foam is completely had it and I can't see a way of replacing it
without removing the metal grill outer but I worry about damaging it or
breaking the tabs off when removing it.
 
Are these available from the dealer? Is it worth retrimming the rear
deck at the same time? One of my compartment lids catch is also broken,
has anyone replaced these?
 
Cheers
Matt.
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