Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

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To indicate how massively indestructible these Pioneer TS-X11 speakers were built, here's what they look like on the inside:

As you can see, the aluminium housing is about as thick as the valve covers of the 4AGE!

Unfortunately, when I opened the second one, I was greeted with this:

One of the tweeters has broken during transit. From what I can gather, the magnet can just be stuck on the back of the tweeter and I keep my fingers crossed it will still work. If not, I'll have to find a tweeter with the same specifications. With some luck, the tweeters that used to be on the parcelshelf have the same specifications.

Anyway, I took them apart and cleaned them thoroughly:

I had three buckets of brown water, and they have cleaned up a bit. I almost felt like being the guy from Odd Tinkering, but alas: no Ducktor in my bucket.
These speakers are far from perfect: there is pitting on the coating of the speakers and some of the emblems also have scratches and marks on them. I don't really mind these speakers not being perfect, my goal was to get rid of the smoker's smell.

Tomorrow I'll put them back together again and test the sound quality.