Where to get car rear-deck speakers (haven't bought speakers in decades)

Could be so many things from a dead bug in the voice-coil to a blown speake r to any of a dozen other causes. If you can feed the speaker from another source and if *does not* scratch, you have a problem with the head-end (ele ctronics). If it continues to buzz, it is the speaker. Before replacing it, try removing it from the vehicle and blowing it out with canned air (NOT c ompressed air - far too powerful), paying attention to the voice coil below the spider. If crud gets in there, that will cause the buzz. Also gently p ress the cone in - do you feel any scraping? If so, the speaker is done.

Parts Express will sell you speakers in many configurations, sizes and styl es. Something will fit. Keep in mind this is a Camry. Which is a not-partic ularly sound-proof device, and within which speakers are more noisemakers t han high-fidelity audio reproducers. What you will need to do is pay attent ion to polarity when you install the new speaker.

Good luck with it.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

You can swap the speaker for the one from the other side. But "scratchy" sounds are apt to be rubbing voice coils which you can feel by pressing on the cone with your thumbs.

There are several standard sizes. You can buy cheap replacement speakers from chain auto parts stores. You can buy the same speakers for half as much from Parts Express but then pay postage on them.

--scott

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Then it's the speaker. I'm assuming you used both the left-to-right balance and the front-to-rear fader so you were really listening to only one speaker at a time. If there is a problem in the left channel, it will be heard in both the front and rear speaker.

Yes.

No.

The dealer is a terrible place. Do they even sell speakers?

Crutchfield. Very reliable. Very helpful on the phone with real people. They're in Charlotte, Va. and I'm in Baltimore and I ordered something and I wasn't in a hurry but I got it the next day.

I recommend them highly despite that they did make a mistake, like other vendors do, wrt the inputs on my 2005 Solara radio. This is the E7001 radio, but I don't think E7002 is any different. These are both Navigation radios that only hold one CD, and with some such radio, if you press the CD button twice, it goes to the CD deck, and it does have a jack for a CD deck (or satellite) and they sell devices that will use such a jack for USB/AUX input. Well that doesn't work on these radios, but they took my word for it, sent me a paid-mailing label, I sent it back as if it were new, dropped it off at a UPS place, and I got my refund the next day.

I've also bought speakers from them more than once in the past. No one else has a better list of cars and their dimensions.

You SHOULD NOT MESS with dash speakers. There was a recall on dashboards from that year and a couple others, on the Solara but I'm pretty sure on the Camry too, and some of them have deteriorated so bad they replaced the dash for free. My dash has a few hairline cracks, but when I tried to lift the 3 digital gauges above the center AC outlets, I put a tiny nick in the dash, behind the gauges. Plainly my dash, also a 2005, is softer than when it was made. (But I'm prettty sure it's nowhere near bad enough to get them to replace it for free, plus the recall has expired anyhow.) I had to go at the gauges from another direction and I did get them up, to reach the radio bolts and remove the radio (long enough to unplug that device above that didn't work. I had been able to plug it in from the bottom without removing the radio.) So there is a tiny nick there

Since you refer to the deck, I assume this is really a Camry and not a Solara, which some people call a Camry Solara. And that it's a sedan and not a convertible, because the convertibles also have a woofer behind the rear seat. I don't think it's even mentioned in the owners manual or anywhere but the wiring diagram, but it's there.

For crud, I would have washed the covers in the dishwasher. It does a great job on things like this.

Yes, but there are lots of sizes, especially when you consider depth.

replying to harry newton, Iggy wrote: Nice work on the grills! Yeah, the scratchiness is from either a separated coil or torn cone, you'll need replacement...of both while the car is finally apart, what an "engineering" mess. Auto Parts stores, Junkyards and most anywhere pertinent online from Walmart to Crutchfield (

). Crutchfield's a long time car audio site (who's now expanded) with very good customer service. They can help you replace or upgrade both rears, even saving you the measuring to tell you the size for the specific car. I prefer the polymer or plastic cone speakers, much richer sound. Manufacturer speakers are usually pretty good, so don't commit to cheapies without hearing them in the car first.

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Not "standard size" - they are often even different from mdel to madel in a brand, or year to yrear in a model.

Try scrapyard? Otherwise dealer is best bet. There are kits to put "standard" speakers in, but they are not terribly satisfactpry. O have installed non-OEM speakers by making adapter plates - basically not worth the hassle.

WEhy is it a terrible place"? -0 and of course they sell speakers. The right ones, that bolt in properly, even. Yes, they cost abit more than the ones that don't fit.

They will likely have "universal" speakers and adapter brackets - which usually work OK - - - - -

will be heard in both the front and rear speaker. "

Not necessarily anymore. Many car radios now have a separate amp per speaker. The advantage is if you like bass you can crank up the rears and they can distort slightly and the front will play clean. seems like more power but it really isn't.

Delco has been doing that for a long time. In fact some of the higher end models also have anti-clipping.

He who is Clare Snyder said on Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:39:10 -0500:

Thanks for all the advice - I haven't touched speakers in decades!

I like the ideas of: a. Testing with a separate speaker (if I can find one) b. Testing by jumping the wires (shouldn't be too hard).

At this point, I'm trying to figure out what size fits.

Here is a picture of the topside of the speaker when we replaced the grill:

Here is the bottom underside in the trunk:

The kid is at college so she only comes home to the neighbor sporadically so I'm just lining up my ducks now.

Looking at the advice to call Crutchfield, they seem to be good and bad. They were very helpful. 1.844.298.3430 About $50 for two speakers.

The problem is *every* speaker they have for the 2005 Camry doesn't fit.

The guy was helpful and said I had to make my own bracket. Huh? Why can't it just bolt in? (I'm glad I asked because I didn't expect that.)

Amazingly, they have 200 speakers they say that fit, of three sizes:

5-1/4, 6-1/2, and 6x9 (I didn't think to measure it unforutnately)

I don't have the car in hand, but apparently there are three types: a. With navigation (she doesn't have it) b. With JBL audio system (I'll have to ask - probably not) c. Without both of those (this is probably what they have)

I called the Toyota dealership and gave them the VIN where they told me their price was $298 for a single OEM Pioneer 6x9 speaker + about $30 tax, so, since I'll likely want to get a set, that would be $660 for the set.

I just can't pay that. Even for a nice neighbor's kid. It's just too much.

Since Camelback Toyota in Arizona usually has the best prices, I called them and they told me, from the VIN, that the radio is a "Fujitsu 10" and the speaker part number is 86160-AA450, they sell for half that price, at $300 for the set.

It's back to Crutchfield I go! :)

He who is Oren said on Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:33:32 -0800:

That's a good idea to wiggle wires (I haven't done speakers in years). The car is at college so it only comes home to do laundry.

When it comes home, the neighbor will call me and I'll be ready.

What I'll do is: a. Try to find a test speaker of about 20 watts b. Make a set of jumper wires to jump one side to the other c. Wiggle the wires to see if the speaker or the radio is bad

Incidentally, after ripping out the interior in the back, the new grills from the Toyota dealer went in easily after drilling out the old heat-melted posts.

The dealer parts came with these round metal clips to fasten the posts:

We originally thought the noise was because the grill was destroyed:

I think the new speakers will have to come out through the top:

Crutchfield. Parts-Express - both will fill the bill.

You *do not* need fancy brackets. Given the potential service life of the c ar, the potential service life of the speaker(s) to be used, the fact that these speakers are going into a car, and not a living-room, any means that secures the speaker reliably is fair game, and McGyver solutions are perfec tly acceptable - again as long as they are secure.

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Looks pretty close - and is also a dual-cone just like what is there.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

It's the only way you're getting them out of there. The top trim panel should come out fairly easily and make access to the speaker retainers easy as well.

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He who is Oren said on Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:54:05 -0800:

The whole family is girls.

AIUI, the dealers' speakers are no better than what they put in the car originally, but it's possible things have changed. Anyoone know? If they are no better than original, they are still useful when the original ones have been ruined somehow.

Who is talking about ones that don't fit? I've never bought a speaker from Crutchfield that didn't fit just as the original one did, except for one car. I knew from the specs printed in the catalog (before the web) that it was too deep, but I hoped magic would allow me to get it in there (or maybe I could pound out a dent in the outside of the door!). Indeed, it was just the depth they said it was, and so was the hole in my car and it didnt' fit. Hmm. I'm sure the dealer would have had speakers that fit, but I don't know that they would have been any better than what I had.

Have you dealt with Cructchfield. No speaker I ever bought from them used an adapter bracket, and none would be called universal. Of course a 6x9x2.8" speaker can univerally fit every car that accespts speakers of that size, but that doesn't make the speaker universal.

I won't be replacing my current speakers. Solaras don't use speaker cover, except maybe on the dash. So to upgrade my speakers I'd have to, I think, take off my entire inside front door panel or my entire rear seat panel. After the fiasco of my last car, I'm not going to do that.

They do sell radios that require a bracket, because the face is not the same exact shape as the original, or because one is changing from 2 or

1.5 DIN to 1 DIN, etc. But I don't think that's related.

You must be so proud. My car didn't even finish the 6th grade.

Short of a volume limiter, I don't believe you can protect a speaker from a teenager.

There is one way, let them pay for the replacement.

NT

Yep, four machine-screws and the unit will *POP* right out - that is, after overcoming the damping glue probably installed at the factory. I have used a flexible 1" putty knife in the past for the purpose. It is not a bad ide a to use some similar material on re-installation to prevent rattling.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Good morning Harry,

I'd suggest going to the Crutchfield web site:

or more specifically:

They have speakers that are an exact fit, starting around $40, and will have correct hardware and they will have adapter cables as well, if you need them.

Regards, Tim

Whereas you can get generic 6x9s from Parts Express for around $5 each, for a total of $20 the set, and they probably won't be any worse than the originals.

--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."