[W126 Coupe] Rear speaker grills

[Jonathan Hodgman]

Dealer is going to be 130+ USD.  Nothing is available separately on
those buggers :-/

Let me know if I can help you out, I can prob. get them to you for
about 96 a side.

Jonathan

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:33:14 +1300, Matt Petersen
<mattpetersen at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>  
>  
> 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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