What I did for the front speakers

What I did for the front speakers

If you own a leased corolla like me, and you want to replace the speakers with the stock ones still in good condition so you can replace them later here's some advice. After speaking to XTM what i did was
1. with an ordinary power drill, use a bit that fits in the hole of the rivet(there's three of them holding the bracket to the door) and drill them until they pop off, takes a little bit of work. In order to replace the speakers you will need a rivet gun or you could just drill new holes.

2. remove the speaker/bracket from the door

3. On any type of wood... MDF board is good, but even plywood will work, trace the triangular part of the bracket from the old speaker and the right size hole in the middle of it to mount your speaker. You could jsut use a circle of wood, but the triangular shape already fits the type of pattern. ALSO, depending on the depth of your speaker you may not need to use wood, you could probably get away with mounting them straight on the door

4.Next, drop yoru speakers into the wood and drill./screw them in tight

5.Cut the stock wires so you have the bare wirre exposed. be sure to keep the stock harness to make replacing the stock speakers easier.

6. You will probably need some speaker wire and solder it on to the lugs (+/- parts on hte speaker), i already had some that came with the attachment that fits over the lug. Once you've done this connect the wires and wrap the exposed ends in black electrical tape. be sure not to touch the wires.

7. Finally find adequate spots to drill holes for the new bracket and then drill it in.

I did this cause i bought infinity's and with the extended over the counter warranty i plan on keeping them after the lease. This way i don't have to worry about what i'm gonna put back in the car or buying a new stock speaker.
Hope this helps some of you. i'll be more then happy to receiece comments, criticisms, querys, or complaints.

Sounds like you did the exact same thing I did! If I could add a suggestion, our cars are known for dumping water that gets in the outside of the window right on the back of the speaker.

I just used some 10mil plastic from Home Desperate and covered the back of the entire speaker / mdf adapter with it, siliconed it on. So far so dry. (knock on wood).

Yeah somebody mentioned that to me actually cause of the cold weather up here in canada the water can actually freeze the cones and they can break. i figured the plastic would just have a vibration or rattling sound so i never bothered.. do you notice anything like that???

also did you completely close off the back of the speaker??

I stretched the plastic over the back pretty tightly, so it never buzzed. Poked a hole in the plastic on the bottom side so I didn't turn it into a sealed enclosure.

No problems yet (knock on MDF).