Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

[The Doctor]

A friend in the UK was building a Bosozoku Micra K11, i think they ended up in that

[banpei]

I managed to tackle two things at the same time: mount the Pioneer TS-X11 and also at the same time mount (some) of the cleaner/better interior parts that I bought earlier.

This was prior to the work done:


An example of how worn the old interior is:

It's not that apparent if you are inside the car, but once you put them side by side it's clear that the old plastic has faded badly and scratched heavily.

This is the new interior mounted to the B-pilar:


Same for the C-pilar, including the ts-x11 mounted on the shelf:

The TS-X11 speakers are mounted with M8 bolts to the parcelshelf, so there isn't a high chance of launching them during an emergency stop.

And this is the final result:

I'm quite happy with the result!

I listened to the sound quality, and I'm really happy with how they sound so far. The replacement speaker for the midtones has almost arrived and then it will sound perfect! However, I found that one of the audio cables (the right rear one) intermittently stops making contact. It's mostly happening when someone sits on the rear bench, so either it was damaged somehow or the insulation has been stripped off and it makes contact with the body of the car. It has been decided for me: replacing the speaker cables is the next project...

[The Doctor]

They look great!
Nice job, shame it rewarded you with the wiring issue..

[banpei]

Yesterday, the replacement mid-tone speaker arrived, and I installed it.

Even though the plastic midsection was broken (see previous page), it's not even visible from the outside. Not that it would have mattered anyway, because the speakers weren't mint to begin with.

I also removed the rear bench to see if I could find the source of the intermittent connection...

Yes, the person who installed the wires thought it was a brilliant idea to have the wiring consist of several interconnected parts. That person was so brilliant that he/she put the connectors right at the top of the transmission tunnel, and one of them was only held on via the rubber insulators. No wonder moving around on the rear bench caused intermittent sound on the right side...
Two duct tapes later, I had permanently addressed this problem.

The double (FedEx) shipping was the majority of the bill. In hindsight, I could have bought a set from eBay (locally) or a nice NOS of a similar speaker set for the same money.
The sound quality of these speakers is superb, and the balance between front and rear is also perfect, so it might have been worth it after all.