Help with Front Speakers in 02

[70BMW02]

I want to add front speakers in my 2002 but don't want to put 5 1/4's in the door or middle counsol. Has anyone built or found a place that has pods that you can secure on driver and passenger kick panels area? Please let me know if you have any ideas.

Thank you,

[BillWilliams]

they are gone now.

The fellow may still have the molds if there was enough interest to get more made.

There were several threads on the installation of these kick panels

[gwb72tii]

you can cut a hole big enough to mount speakers in the kick panels. you will need a sawzall or some other similar saw to cut a circle, but it will work. you can then mount the speaker over the carpet and it will then have a very nice finished look.

[TonyHavana]

I put my front speakers in the sides of my centre console.

Black grills and lots of space behind.

No one even notices them.

[ClayW]

they are gone now.

The fellow may still have the molds if there was enough interest to get more made.

There were several threads on the installation of these kick panels

Let me know if you have more made. How much?

[auggiemize]

Dont know if this is the same guy that you worked with, Bill; 41willyscoupe@comcast.net is the guy that made the fibreglass one's on Scott's Taiga colored touring. (see archives) He (Willys) quoted me somewhere between $125 and $150 per pair. Three different thicknesses with white gelcoat. Scott covered his with carpet, and they looked super. I think he's in MD. Does alot of cycle stuff as well. I'm close to pulling the trigger myself...good luck, Dave V. in NC

[yeewiz]

here's a picture of Bill Williams' kick panels. Bill gave me awesome installation instructions and how to carpet these panels. Thank you Bill! In the end, I made 2 variations though: a) I didn't cut any metal, and I sprayed satin black on them and decided they looked great without carpeting.

[BarryA]

dash panels/speaker mounts I fabricated to replace the factory cardboard panels - speakers mount vertically, are nearly invisible from outside the car, and are up out of the way where they won't get kicked.

[ClayW]

Send me an email, too. I'd like to see a set!

clay [dot] weiland [at] gmail [dot] com

[JohnC]

here's an under-dash pic of the speakers mounted in the cardboard panels. I've done both of my cars this way. I doubt that that the sound quality is going to be as good as mounting in the kick panels. But this is easy and the speakers are hidden.

These are Infinity 4012i's. My Becker Europa is driving them. The poor Becker just doesn't have enough juice to bring out the sound, but it's OK for talk radio.

[Armond]

this person my be able to help...good luck

http://www.rccarcrafters.com/

[patmryan]

I took my car to Tweeter and they fabricated fiberglass panels which installed over the kick panels for $350. I dropped polk 5 '14" round Moma speakers in them and they sound great. I don't have any pics, but may take some this weekend and post.

Pat

[visionaut]

An old pic of my custom-fabbed fiberglas kickpanel enclosures - Boston components and crossovers installed.

Tom