I found this on Ebay and have purchased a pair (still waiting on them)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...2482&viewitem=

Has anyone had experience with these? If they work well it should be great for anyone wanting to change out the speakers on their base model stereos

 

They don't work. They make the speaker stick out to far from the door so that the door panel doesn't go back on all the way.

 

so what do you use? I ordered 6 3/4 components and now im worried

 

Just get out the dremel & modify the factory ones

 

You mean take out the stock speaker and CUT the bracket off the speaker?

I'll wait till I get mine and check it out.

 

but will the 6 3/4 fit the modified factory ones?

 

Tried them have you?
I wouldn't care if other people confirmed this also, in fact it would help the situation. But I'll see once they arrive and I might even put up some photos to prove whether, in fact, they fit or don't.

I kinda believe that they might not fit, due to the fact that they're not even made specifically for the cobalts, but for Replacing certain types of chevy speakers in general.

 

Yes I tried them, I originally had the speakers just screwed to the door itself but water was flooding my car through the open space around the speaker. I ordered those hoping to stop the leaking but when I got them realized that they will still let water in., so I bought rtv silicone to fill the holes in. I test fit them first and realized that they would make the speaker stick out to far. I did end up using part of them thou. I took them apart, filled te holes on one side of the adapter, then screwed the speaker to it and used the silicone to seal it to the door.

 

I just took self taping screws and screwed them in.

 

Thats how mine originally were, but I had a flooding problem due to the speaker not completely sealing up the hole.

 

^^^ ghetto

 

^^x2

On the inside of the door panel there is a plastic ring that comes out from the where the mesh for the speaker is, it sticks out about 1-2". Take a box cutter or a dremel and trim this down, it is whats hitting the speaker causing it to prevent the door panel from going back on

 

From the sounds of this, I don't like the idea that the sound is not coming straight out through the hole. Some of it must be "leaking" out behind the doorskin. Or lose that lip Spun talks about create a "good enough" seal to get all the sound out through the mesh?

 

How? Umm no fitment issues no vibrations. Didn't need to invest money into adapters that ARE NOT needed. Door panel hides the speaker anyways. If that speaker was SHOWING then it would be ghetto.

 

so what about the users who cut out the grill and mounted the speaker to the door panel?

 

so the fender hides power wire doesnt mean you should run it thru the door jam.

thats really the way to do it. Takes some effort but worth it in the end

 

cut the stock speaker from the bracket and use it with yur new speakers.

that's what we did with the infinity kappas i got in front.

 

If your going to do it like this then heres a little advice
1) Cut that lip I was talking about off.
2) Make a ring from MDF and glue it to the inside of the door panel so that you have something to screw the speaker into other than plastic.
3) If you use too big of a speaker then it will rub the kick panels when you close the door, this of course only applies if you want to place the speaker in the grille part of the door, but IMO its the only place that keeps it looking clean.
This is a pic of my 5.25 in my front door.
BTW- Whoever said having the speaker showing was ghetto...is this ghetto compared to pic of the pioneer you put up??
Oh yeah the tweeter location was a lesson in stupidity, I've since moved it but my advice is to not put it there, the sound wasn't right. You win some you loose some.

 

so what speakers are those again? im wondering if they are a previous line up seeing as im not familiar with the pre 08 hertz stuff

 

Hertz Energy System's -ESK 130 up front and ESK 165 in the back
http://www.hertzaudiovideo.com/default_en.htm

 

thats what i thought but it looks like you have the nipple dustcap as i call it (like my midbasses) instead of the v cone cap as well as the cosmetic triangle on the cone

thats why im thinking its the 07 model... im pretty sure ive seen it before but i really dont know about the older stuff

 

It is the 07 model.
They do have the nipple cap as you call it, not the inverted one like the Mille's have.
My x-overs are also different than the 08's.
There inline and each one is a little bigger than a Bic lighter (one for tweets one for speaker) I know the tweeter is a -3 but can't remember what the speaker one was.
It worked out nice, because they are so small I just shoved a big piece of outdoor heat shrink over eack one (water proof them) zap straped them together and then straped then to the inside of my door rather than having to place them in the car where they would stay dry.
When i do my pods, which should be in the next month or so (I opted to change my wing to a 3 piece first but its done now) I'm going to change the speakers anyway. I love the hertz but there bright f**king orange you know what i mean. I really want Focal Utopia's but there yellow so I'm in the same boat. I was litening to the DD components and they sound nice, the 6.5 midbass are rocking but the high's lack the sound quality that the hertz have plus having everything in the car DD is kinda cheese when your not sponsered.
I was thinking about going with the DD 6.5's for midbass and then the CDT Audio ES-620 GOLD components for the rest. Its just the ring on them that is yellow so that can be painted. IDN i have yet to have a good listen to them, everyone says there the **** but in car stereo ones mans awsome is another mans crap. So will have to hear them in a nice enviroment before I make up my mind. Or I'll have covers made and go with the Utopia's, those I've herd and really enjoyed.

 

ya everyone rags on CDT now adays. I choose the es 07 over the hi energy comps for a reason. But if your really concerned about looks just go with the hi energy comp set. all black One thing you want to watch out for with CDT is they made many different looks of the es-06. (we actually have one of each at the shop if i remember correctly) 2 older ones one with yellow cone and one black cone yellow basket only. The newer stuff is orange basket black cone (like the 07 i had... i painted the lip black) but they are all the same speaker. only difference is cosmetics.

 

What's $23 to have these delivered, when ONE HOUR of my time is worth more than that? I don't want to cut up my old speakers just to fit new ones in. I want to unscrew the old ones, screw in the new ones. That's what this thread was started for; to talk about if these adapters work, or not. Seeing it's been jacked now, I'll come back later and finish it myself and give the final answer, MYSELF

I thank everyone for their advice on how to do it other ways and if these adapters don't work I'll look into it. I will be posting pictures on whether it worked or didn't work so everyone in future can be sure.

 

x2 post em on the FAQ and ill update it one of these days