HOW to Remove Rear Speaker Covers & Speakers Gen 5

[zapp]

Uggh.... i can tell this is not going to be fun
There are a bunch of posts elsewhere about crumbling rear deck speaker covers but out of about 150 posts I didn't find any clear instructions about HOW to go about removing that rear deck lid so that you can get to the retainers for the covers, then get the 6X9" speakers out.

Does anyone know how to do this exactly? mine is an 04 SE model. What I have gleaned so far is that the entire rear part of the car has to be dismantled piece by piece. I get the drift, but how? like, how to remove seat? How to remove side cushions? How to remove rear cover? [the hatch cover pieces.... fibre things]. Then finally how to remove the deck lid itself with the grill/cover things attached???

thanks for helping.

[zapp]

Bump.... pleeez pleeeez

[workerant]

Did U check here here?

[zapp]

yes. the crutchfield sheet for the new camry's is some help but the newer camry's have diff's versus Gen 5. one thing is I can't see how to remove the side-cushions - the outer extremities of the back seatbacks. if I could get those out I think the rest might clear up... maybe.

Originally Posted by TTM77

Did U check here here?

[LE05]

Originally Posted by zapp

yes. the crutchfield sheet for the new camry's is some help but the newer camry's have diff's versus Gen 5. one thing is I can't see how to remove the side-cushions - the outer extremities of the back seatbacks. if I could get those out I think the rest might clear up... maybe.

the seat bolsters (side cushions) are bolted on the bottom. you will need to remove the bottom of the back seat to access them. the seat bottom is held in by two clips, about a third way from the center on each side. just pull up, don't be afraid to give it a good heave... the clips won't break. once you get the seat bottom out, unbolt the seat bolsters... then pull up, then out on them.

[zapp]

thx much.
got 'er done. at least the disassembly part.... now wrestling with ill-fitting speakers. looks like fab work needed

Originally Posted by LE05

the seat bolsters (side cushions) are bolted on the bottom. you will need to remove the bottom of the back seat to access them. the seat bottom is held in by two clips, about a third way from the center on each side. just pull up, don't be afraid to give it a good heave... the clips won't break. once you get the seat bottom out, unbolt the seat bolsters... then pull up, then out on them.

['02 XLE V6]

This thread:

Gen 5 Camry XLE Speaker Upgrade

...and the gearmonkey link in the first post could be of great help.


edit: here's another great thread to go along...

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t250962.html

[ebumdude]

Good luck!

[zapp]

checked those and left notes on one.

If anyone reads this and has the upgrade JBL system: any idea which wire is +positive on the two-wire feeder to the rear deck JBL speaker?? one green, one black. ?

['02 XLE V6]

Originally Posted by zapp

checked those and left notes on one.

If anyone reads this and has the upgrade JBL system: any idea which wire is +positive on the two-wire feeder to the rear deck JBL speaker?? one green, one black. ?

Black is positive. Got the following pic from the second link I posted. It's just past halfway down the page and close-ups of the connectors are just below it.

[zapp]

T-riffic!! thanks so much. that's what I was guessing but wuz a little nervous about
thanks again.
next step is i"m going to put a small amplifier back there to boost those rears a little bit. it seems the load is uneven: the front speakers are well-fed and sound frankly just fine, but the rears seem to not be getting enough wattage to balance-out the front. swapped for a 'better' speaker in the rear and it made no diff. couldn't tell any 'better' still very thin so... more juice!

Originally Posted by '02 XLE V6

Black is positive. Got the following pic from the second link I posted. It's just past halfway down the page and close-ups of the connectors are just below it.

[workerant]

Zapp, could take some pictures of that back panel? good to see how it is apart.

Does yours remove like the Gen 6?

For mine, one of the rear speaker went bad (JBL speaker) and they said it would cost me about $700 if it weren't under warranty. Anyway, after that fix my back panel now vibrates when I hit bumps on the road. My warranty is out now but I wouldn't let them touch it again anyway. I tried to find the reason why it vibrate but couldn't see anything wrong. With your picture, I hope to track down where it might vibrate.

[zapp]

yes and yes.
it will take me a day or so to get them done and up where I can post.
I think there are more similarities than not all the way from early gen 5 through present.
its, to me, not as complex as it sounds, its just that the rear deck 'lid' is hemmed in by everything. once you move all the seat junk and undo the fasteners [pushpins.... but why they used two different types for the same purpose.... who knows. i plan to replace them all with new ones], move that black felty piece, then it just pops loose and slides out.

one thing that this made real clear to me is how little acoustic baffling material there is. your vibration would be easily remedied... in fact you may can pad it from the trunk. just put on some death metal or something and crawl in the trunk and start mashing on things.

I plan to get some carpet-pad material and put it everywhere I can, especially in the fore part of the rear wheel wells which have NO insulation at all.... cut down on the bad road noise that all toyotas and lexus's suffer from [i've had both]. GM does a much better job of this in the impala, saturn Aura, and newstyle malibus.... very very quiet

Originally Posted by TTM77

Zapp, could take some pictures of that back panel? good to see how it is apart.

Does yours remove like the Gen 6?

For mine, one of the rear speaker went bad (JBL speaker) and they said it would cost me about $700 if it weren't under warranty. Anyway, after that fix my back panel now vibrates when I hit bumps on the road. My warranty is out now but I wouldn't let them touch it again anyway. I tried to find the reason why it vibrate but couldn't see anything wrong. With your picture, I hope to track down where it might vibrate.