Hi all,I recently bought a new pair of speakers only to find that they don’t fit as well as they should, even with an aftermarket mount kit I bought. So I decided to come up with a custom solution and I’d like some feedback from some of you on my plan.This is going in a 2007 Chevrolet HHR. This trim is the LT and has the Pioneer subwoofer in the back.Forgive me for my poor art and lack of proper terminology.Here’s the area of the door where the speaker goes in. I’ve already hooked in the speaker and it works great and it’s a perfect fit in the hole (6 1/2 which is the size of the stock speakers).Here’s a picture of one of the speakers for one of the doors. The problem I’m having is those cog spikes (I call them cog spikes, like the kind you’d see on a bicycle) on the sides of the speaker where screws are supposed to go. They stick out and get in the way of the speaker mount and there’s no place for screws on this door to use those. On the other speaker (the one not pictured), I bent these back thinking that would help getting them to fit in the mount but it still doesn’t fit in the mount.So my plan was to design this and print on my 3D printer for each “cog spike” of the speaker. I planned to drill holes in the door, around the speaker hole, for each of these plastic plugs so that they could fit in and keep the speaker mounted.I’d normally go ahead and just do something like this but drilling holes in my door has got me a little cautious because I have no idea what sort of problems could arise I didn’t think of from trying this and once you’ve drilled holes, it’s not easy to revert something like that.Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions or maybe alternatives?I don’t think I can take the speakers back to the store since I bent back the cog spikes (I bent them back into place, but it’s evident they have been bent) and I cut the wires to fit with my wires, so not sure if they’re in any condition to take back to the store or not. I like the sound of these and already half way through the job so I figured I’d just go ahead and finish up and this was an idea I came up with a few days ago. via /r/DIY http://bit.ly/2GILs34
