How to - Installing new Speakers in your 3rd Gen

Just did this install over the last weekend and the sound quality is GREAT! I first did my tweeters then the door speakers. Just so you all know, the door speakers are so cheap you can poke your finger through them LOL

Sound is very crisp and clear and instructions are great.

Some minor things I've noticed were the front door speakers don't exactly line up on the bracket, so I lined up 3 out of the 4 holes and it was still very secure.
The brackets do fit onto the door with no issues which is great.

Also, the wire adapters are kinda wonky, I had to pry the clamp open to get them over the speakers and then crimp them down onto the speakers pretty good.

Overall, the sound is great and the process for installing is pretty straight forward after the first one. The next 3 were a breeze after the first one was complete as I knew exactly where everything went, etc.

Wanted to let you all know I bought from Crutchfield as it came with the adapters and all that for free.

 

Great feedback. Thanks for taking time to share.

 

Just ordered and can vouch that all adapters and pigtails are still free with speaker purchase.

 

Installed my JL Audio C1-690X's this afternoon, have only listened to them briefly but it sounds like they'll compliment the kicker tweeters well. They sound good enough off the stock head unit but I think they'll really be amazing when I get around to hooking up the Kicker Key amp that's sitting in my shed (and changing out my rear speakers for Infinity's).

Quick question, does anyone have a part number handy or a generic version of the little clips that hold on the sail panel? The ones on my passenger side door disintegrated when I tried to put the panel back in.

 

Just had these delivered. Will update once I get them installed.

$10 free shipping

 

Where did you order the clips from?

 

Fyi, I put some electrical tape over the hole and cut a slit in it before reinstalling sail panel. This helped with them popping back in as well is filled the hole a bit so they would not pop right through the hole and end up at the bottom of the door.

 

Order from Amazon.
Toyota part number is in the picture

 

I took a quick look on Amazon but could find the part. Did you get from a Toyota parts place on Amazon?

 

67771-58010 is Toyota part number. For what ever reason Toyota website wouldn’t let me order. So I just took that part number and put it into Amazon.

 

Door Garnish Moulding Retainer Clip, for Toyota #67771-58010 (Pack of 20)

$10 Autobahn88 Door and Granish Molding Clip, compatible with Toyota (OEM: 67771-58010) (Pack of 20)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0UR43W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IeMvCb5JX22YR

 

Can confirm that these fit same as stock clips. Nice and tight

 

I looked into it on Amazon but the vendor does not ship to Canada. Bizzarre. Anyone out there offer to split an order with me and ship to Canada in an envelope?

 

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I skipped it. I skipped removing the trim from the pillars as well. It was a little tricky but I was just slow and careful. The passenger side is the hardest.

 

Just ordered the items needed. Thanks for the write up! . Looking forward to the improvement over stock.

 

Thanks for the write up... did it and sounds better...

 

Got all the items in this week and installed...great improvement over stock! Now i have the itch to put my old stealth box in for a little more boom.

 

Anyone know how to open the door if the cable is unlatched to the handle?

 

Thank you @SomethingNew71 very much for the excellent guide! It definitely made me pull the trigger on both the tweeters and speakers. The two upgrades together are very impressive. I was disappointed with the stock system on my Tacoma from the beginning, especially since my 2013 Corolla has a far better sounding stock system. The nylon pry tool kit is great, and the tool roll for it was a welcome surprise!

I just finished the install today, and I wanted to share some info from my go around of doing this upgrade that may help others. I did add a few things that were not part of the guide, such as bolting my speakers to the adapters in place of screws. I also used Boom Mat Speaker Baffles (050381 for the front and 050341 for the rears) in place of the sound deadening, as well as to protect the speakers from water getting in the doors. When I pulled the stock speakers today, there was water on the little top shields so I was very glad I decided on the Boom Mats. I also added some 3/4" wide weather stripping between the door and the adapters just to make sure there were not any rattles.

When I preassembled all my adapters and speakers Friday, I quickly ran into problems with fitting the speakers in the front Metra 6"x9" adapters. Only two of the four holes to screw in the speakers lined up, and a third could be massaged into some sort of an alignment. Trying to screw everything together and keep the Boom Mats from pushing everything apart was beyond frustrating, so I ended up abandoning using the Metra adapters. I ended up finding these universal adapters (

$16 Custom Install Parts 6x9 Aftermarket Front Door Speaker Adapter Compatible with Lexus & Compatible with Toyota

http://amzn.com/B00801K2XQ) which ended up working very well. They do not come predrilled for any speakers, but a sharpy and a drill fixed the rest and allowed me to use four mounting bolts to secure everything.



Another thing I ran into was that one of the wire adapters had a bur inside the slip on connector for the speaker, and I ended up bending up one of the tabs on the speakers trying to get the connector fully seated. Fortunately no damage was done to the speaker, but I ended up destroying the connector trying to correct the bur, so I just purchased another package of the Metra adapters to replace the bad one.

If you end up using the Boom Mats, remember to seal the wires coming out of the top to prevent water coming in, and to add a vent on the bottom side to allow the speaker to breathe. For the fronts I made the opening about 3"x1", and 1"x1" for the rears. I read many reviews about how poor and muffled the sound was using Boom Mats, but I strongly suspect they never cut an opening. I did not experience any interference between the Boom Mats and the windows. I know that its pretty close in the front, but I double checked everything by rolling the windows down with the door panels off.



The other area where I ran into an issue is with the rear Metra mount and the bolting of the speaker to the adapter. If you use the speaker mounting screw holes to thru bolt your speaker to them, the hole is flush with the base of the adapter, and anything protruding will hit the sheet metal of the door. I ended up counter sinking the holes and using countersunk screws.


Notice the blue arrow showing where my bolts were hitting the door, and the yellow arrow shows the countersunk hole with the bolt head. I also trimmed any bolt length sticking past the nut on the front side to make sure the door panel had enough clearance.




I ended up wrapping all my speaker connectors with a few layers of electrical tape to prevent them from vibrating against the door. It would have taken me about two hours to have finished the install if I had not run into issues with my rear mounts, and probably three or so hours to assemble all of my speakers and adapters beforehand as shown above.

Hopefully this will help others, and thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far, as it made my install that much easier.