What Speakers for C240 2005 with Harman sound
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What Speakers for C240 2005 with Harman sound
I bought this car but couldn't check the speakers. It turned out that 4 door speakers and 2 treble speakers had been changed with some cheap speakers.
I'm considering 2 options:
1. First I can buy same speakers taken from old cars. They are sold in eBay at about $260 for all 6 speakers.
2. I can buy new aftermarket speakers to install. But I cannot afford much money on these.
Can anyone please suggest that which option is better or which brand and model can I use for my car.
I'm considering 2 options:
1. First I can buy same speakers taken from old cars. They are sold in eBay at about $260 for all 6 speakers.
2. I can buy new aftermarket speakers to install. But I cannot afford much money on these.
Can anyone please suggest that which option is better or which brand and model can I use for my car.
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It will depend on what the previous owner did to install the aftermarket speakers
The HK system is very good! I have it in my 2008 R class. If you can get the original HK speakers for $260 that would be your best bet and easiest to install.
The OEM speakers have special plastic mounting shape to fit the doors. If you remove them you have to build special spacers for aftermarket speakers.
Do you know what brand of aftermarket speakers they put in? Maybe they are not that bad?
see what I did in front in this thread:
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...230-sport.html
The HK system is very good! I have it in my 2008 R class. If you can get the original HK speakers for $260 that would be your best bet and easiest to install.
The OEM speakers have special plastic mounting shape to fit the doors. If you remove them you have to build special spacers for aftermarket speakers.
Do you know what brand of aftermarket speakers they put in? Maybe they are not that bad?
see what I did in front in this thread:
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...230-sport.html
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I think your first step needs to be removing aftermarket speakers and checking wiring and to make sure H/K amp is still installed and wired up. The PO could have really messed up the wiring and made it really hard to install factory parts again.
Personally I would try to take it back to stock but if to much has been done you could always remove the H/K system completely and just tap into wired speaker output on HU and build a new system for not that much money.
Personally I would try to take it back to stock but if to much has been done you could always remove the H/K system completely and just tap into wired speaker output on HU and build a new system for not that much money.
Last edited by samaritrey; Sep 19, 2014 at 02:32 AM.
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It will depend on what the previous owner did to install the aftermarket speakers
The HK system is very good! I have it in my 2008 R class. If you can get the original HK speakers for $260 that would be your best bet and easiest to install.
The OEM speakers have special plastic mounting shape to fit the doors. If you remove them you have to build special spacers for aftermarket speakers.
Do you know what brand of aftermarket speakers they put in? Maybe they are not that bad?
see what I did in front in this thread:
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...230-sport.html
The HK system is very good! I have it in my 2008 R class. If you can get the original HK speakers for $260 that would be your best bet and easiest to install.
The OEM speakers have special plastic mounting shape to fit the doors. If you remove them you have to build special spacers for aftermarket speakers.
Do you know what brand of aftermarket speakers they put in? Maybe they are not that bad?
see what I did in front in this thread:
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...230-sport.html
I think your first step needs to be removing aftermarket speakers and checking wiring and to make sure H/K amp is still installed and wired up. The PO could have really messed up the wiring and made it really hard to install factory parts again.
Personally I would try to take it back to stock but if to much has been done you could always remove the H/K system completely and just tap into wired speaker output on HU and build a new system for not that much money.
Personally I would try to take it back to stock but if to much has been done you could always remove the H/K system completely and just tap into wired speaker output on HU and build a new system for not that much money.
I believe the previous owner (or maybe some other guy stole from him) just removed the speakers and replace with bad quality ones. The door speakers are Sony and 1 other brand, I don't remember exactly, the one on the driver door was broken and I had to remove it already. The tweeters don't have any mark on them. There is not a tweeter on the dash board neither.
Luckily, I can still see the H/K speakers in the rear when the trunk is opened. So I guest they just replaced the door and tweeter speakers because it was hard to open the rear. So the amps and the rear speakers are still stock H/K.
I'm planning buying to buy door speakers and tweeters from this guy on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/190926293545. The price would be double shipping to Vietnam.
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I don't believe the tweeters actually have markings on them anyway (my Bose ones didn't at least) so I would check that out or maybe someone with HK speakers in a w203 can help out with that (my w211 could be the same if we don't get a response I can check) Strange that they would go to the trouble to remove the center one under the dash grill that's crazy unless it was rattling which can happen.
So Vietnam that's cool my Fiance is Half Vietnamese so one day I plan to visit with her and her family from what she told me from her visit two summers ago their were not really any cars worth mentioning so its nice to hear of at least one
So Vietnam that's cool my Fiance is Half Vietnamese so one day I plan to visit with her and her family from what she told me from her visit two summers ago their were not really any cars worth mentioning so its nice to hear of at least one
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I don't believe the tweeters actually have markings on them anyway (my Bose ones didn't at least) so I would check that out or maybe someone with HK speakers in a w203 can help out with that (my w211 could be the same if we don't get a response I can check) Strange that they would go to the trouble to remove the center one under the dash grill that's crazy unless it was rattling which can happen.
So Vietnam that's cool my Fiance is Half Vietnamese so one day I plan to visit with her and her family from what she told me from her visit two summers ago their were not really any cars worth mentioning so its nice to hear of at least one
So Vietnam that's cool my Fiance is Half Vietnamese so one day I plan to visit with her and her family from what she told me from her visit two summers ago their were not really any cars worth mentioning so its nice to hear of at least one
Hi, Samaritrey. It would be nice to see you in VN. Call me if you visit Hanoi.
