Help replacing speakers on 2000 corolla

Help replacing speakers on 2000 corolla

I removed the door trim only to discover the 3 screws holding the speaker mount in place has a tiny round hole in the middle. How on earth is any screw driver suppose to remove that?

hmm, not sure if 2000 is any different from 2001. are you talking about the front door speakers or rear panel speakers? i don't remember having any trouble removing any of the screws..

owned screws.... you'll need to get fatter one to say the least and some good ol' silicone to hold them in place

Rivets. Use a small flat-head screwdriver to carefully pop them out.

is that what those are!? I did try a flat head, there doesn't seem to be any room to wedge them in.

front door speakers. The 2000 manual I bought shows 3 bolts on them, but when I popped the trim out I'm not sure what the heck those 3 things are. Hopefully they are Rivets.

I wasn't sure about the rear panel speakers either. My manual did not have a chapter on removing the rear trim... I assume 3 of the bolts have to be remove from inside the trunk.

Hex screw maybe??.....a picture would be awesome right bout now...

thanks for the info. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Would it be possible to pry the 3 rivets out without a drill?

I've yet to remove the rear trim to get to the rear speakers. The trim seems to seem to be locked in by three bolts from inside the trunk. It felt like something was about to bend with the amount of force I was applying...

sorry i lack a digital camera...

Thanks for the suggestion everyone. I finally got the front door speakers remove. The heck with the brackets, I just slowly cut a hole in the door trim and screwed the speakers right int.

Now for the rear trim. Those two 2 rear speaker covers are rediculously hard to remove...

I cut the door trim along the dotted lines where the old speakers would have been. The glass I saw was way behind the speakes so fortunately the windows will still work

That patch of holes on the door that covers up the speaker from the inside of the car. I put a screw in and noticed how nicely it locks into place dispite it being plastic. =Þ

I'm seriously behind in modern technology. Especially in the area of digital camera.

Imagine the door brand new. Nobody has done anything with it yet. If you were to stare at the door from the inside(which is mostely made up of plastic), look towards the bottom right corner where the speaker sound would be coming from. There is an entire array of holes arranged in a circular fashion I imagine so the sound can get out and not resonate wildly inside the door. The speaker would be right behind those array of holes if the door trim was removed.


What I did is cut along the holes to make an opening just large enough to stick a speaker through. So will the proper way to do it is to mount the new speakers in it's orignal factory supplied brackets thus out of sight and inside the door. Instead, my speakers are mounted outside of the door(inside of the car of course). yeah to some it might be an eyesore, but I quickly grew fond of looking at my new polkies

you should get some protectors for your speakers so you dont kick it on accident like i have many a time...unless you are using the stock ones?

quick Q here....my windows are not automatic..how am i suppose to remove the handle taht u would use too roll up the window? am trying to figure out how to do that ..i tried pulling it but it doesn't seem to work

I'm using the stock grills that came with the speakers. They look like this
http://www.polkaudio.com/caraudio/products/db650/

Not the greatest pair of speakers, but they do sound 10X better than the stock ones that toyota cram into their corollas.

Yeah, that would have been the best way to do it, if only I had a metal workshop. I spent 10 minutes trying to pry the old speakers out of the brackets, and finally realized that it ain't happening. Even had I been able too, no drills to drill holes into the bracket to attach the speakers to.

Hopefully the rear speakers will go more smoothly this weekened. So I am to remove the 3 plastic tops that are used to secure baby seats and the rear trim should pop right out?