Water running onto door speakers

[littlejon]

I've just installed a set of Type S Apline splits into the Front Doors on the Calais. To make the speaker fit, i had to "modify" the standard speaker pod. Now to my horror in the rain over the last week (luckily when i still had the trim off) i realised that water was dripping from where the whether strip meets the mirror into my door. The water is dripping right onto the magnet of the speaker.

Now i am assuming the Plastic i removed from the pod was to protect from this happening to the factory speakers. I have bought some builders plastic and covered the back of the speaker (hoping the bugger wont rattle its tits off) also hoping it wont cut the air flow to the speaker too much.

What have others done to combat this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[jds303]

a plastic shield like you have done is a good way to avoid this, so long as it is solidly mounted and wont vibrate.

 

[littlejon]

a plastic shield like you have done is a good way to avoid this, so long as it is solidly mounted and wont vibrate.

That is what i am worried about. I wouldn't call it solidly mounted. It is kept in place by the pressure of the speaker pod. Haven't reconnected the speaker yet as i am waiting to mount my amps on the weekend first.

 

[StoneX]

In my first two car's I used the black plastic sheeting that you can get from hardware stores, I couldn't ever hear it moving. But this car, I used deadener. I just stuck it over the speaker hole cut slits in it and folded it into the hole and then put the speaker in, so the flaps of deadener cover the top speaker.

 

[littlejon]

In my first two car's I used the black plastic sheeting that you can get from hardware stores, I couldn't ever hear it moving. But this car, I used deadener. I just stuck it over the speaker hole cut slits in it and folded it into the hole and then put the speaker in, so the flaps of deadener cover the top speaker.

So am i to assume that the water falling in this area is actually how it is meant to be?

StoneX did you use the standard speaker pod?

 

[StoneX]

Yeah, water will go in your doors... That's why there is drain holes in the bottom and the plastic sheet over the access holes.

I didn't used the stock pods, I made MDF ones. But all you need to do is get a flap of something, like deadener, rubber, or something and tape it onto door then screw stock pod down over it to hold it and push your speaker in.

 

[littlejon]

Yeah, water will go in your doors... That's why there is drain holes in the bottom and the plastic sheet over the access holes.

I didn't used the stock pods, I made MDF ones. But all you need to do is get a flap of something, like deadener, rubber, or something and tape it onto door then screw stock pod down over it to hold it and push your speaker in.

Don't speakers like the fronts need some breathing room? The reason i ask is in another car i was considering using premade boxes for the parcel shelf, but the guy in the car audio shop told me that it would eventually kill the speakers over time.

 

[StoneX]

The flap only covers the top of the speaker.