NLXTACY
Wits' End
Let me begin by saying, "I know nothing about stereo systems". So don't look to me to answer your audiophile questions. I will just stare at the screen like an idiot.
I started the process ONLY because I thought all of my speakers had died and that they needed to be replaced. Up until today I still had ONE speaker working so it was good enough for me but not the
Now the issue I was having wasn't even speaker related, per se, but I kept going with the upgrade since that was what I thought it was. Turns out I may just have a crapping out Scion 1808 but you can read up about that in this thread: https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/675618-rth-scion-1808-audio-out-issues.html
I have started on the passenger side, front and rear. I have done two of the three speakers on that side and will update as I finish up the last one. For now I will detail what I did so far. BTW, I have only read ONE thread on speakers so if any of this seems to be repeated, I'm sorry. If I did something completely wrong because I didn't read a thread...well I screwed up
I started by removing the passenger right knee speaker. Not the one in the door, but the one next to the glove box. Its one screw holding in the cover and its off easily after removing the single connector. This particular speaker "looked" ok. By ok I mean that the paper cone did not exhibit any obvious issue. I have no idea how to check if a speaker works or not but it didn't matter because I was going to upgrade it anyway.
This speaker is held in by two self-tapping screws. Its a small speaker with a bracket and connector in the back. I started by removing the connector as close to the speaker body as possible because I wanted to keep the same connectors. (I know nothing about speaker wire so I'm sure there is an opportunity to upgrade the speaker wire but I'm just not there yet). Using a razor, I cut out all of the paper cone so that I could take a look at what I was working with. The first thing I noticed is that the Infinity Kappa Series 1" speaker housing is almost the same size as the diameter of the OEM speaker housing.
After the purchase of a new Dremel (I guess someone else needed my old one more than I did ), I got busy in cutting out the speaker/magnet from the bracket itself. After trimming it down I soon realized that there is a possibility that I could actually screw the new housing INTO the OEM bracket. I gave the Dremel another 10 minutes of grinding and then gave it a chamfer on both sides to give it the thickness I needed and viola! The housing now screws right into the bracket like it was made for it. Awesome-sauce. Screwed it all the way in, applied the back locking nut and put in the roll-axis housing. Like it was made for the Lexus.
The speakers I'm referring to:
Infinity Kappa 1" textile dome speakers
more info:
Infinity Kappa 10.9t 1" textile dome tweeters at Crutchfield.com
Some pics:
I started the process ONLY because I thought all of my speakers had died and that they needed to be replaced. Up until today I still had ONE speaker working so it was good enough for me but not the
Now the issue I was having wasn't even speaker related, per se, but I kept going with the upgrade since that was what I thought it was. Turns out I may just have a crapping out Scion 1808 but you can read up about that in this thread: https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/675618-rth-scion-1808-audio-out-issues.html
I have started on the passenger side, front and rear. I have done two of the three speakers on that side and will update as I finish up the last one. For now I will detail what I did so far. BTW, I have only read ONE thread on speakers so if any of this seems to be repeated, I'm sorry. If I did something completely wrong because I didn't read a thread...well I screwed up
I started by removing the passenger right knee speaker. Not the one in the door, but the one next to the glove box. Its one screw holding in the cover and its off easily after removing the single connector. This particular speaker "looked" ok. By ok I mean that the paper cone did not exhibit any obvious issue. I have no idea how to check if a speaker works or not but it didn't matter because I was going to upgrade it anyway.
This speaker is held in by two self-tapping screws. Its a small speaker with a bracket and connector in the back. I started by removing the connector as close to the speaker body as possible because I wanted to keep the same connectors. (I know nothing about speaker wire so I'm sure there is an opportunity to upgrade the speaker wire but I'm just not there yet). Using a razor, I cut out all of the paper cone so that I could take a look at what I was working with. The first thing I noticed is that the Infinity Kappa Series 1" speaker housing is almost the same size as the diameter of the OEM speaker housing.
After the purchase of a new Dremel (I guess someone else needed my old one more than I did ), I got busy in cutting out the speaker/magnet from the bracket itself. After trimming it down I soon realized that there is a possibility that I could actually screw the new housing INTO the OEM bracket. I gave the Dremel another 10 minutes of grinding and then gave it a chamfer on both sides to give it the thickness I needed and viola! The housing now screws right into the bracket like it was made for it. Awesome-sauce. Screwed it all the way in, applied the back locking nut and put in the roll-axis housing. Like it was made for the Lexus.
The speakers I'm referring to:
Infinity Kappa 1" textile dome speakers
more info:
Infinity Kappa 10.9t 1" textile dome tweeters at Crutchfield.com
Some pics:
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