Replacing original rear speakers

[crazyrog17]

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nice job.

lol at teh cat.

[Bert]

I understand Bert...
I wasn't looking for "sound" advise. Just asking to make sure the replacement speakers would work with the radio.
Maybe I should have posted in the general forum instead of the custom audio forum. The original speakers would have been fine except for the
fact that the material that the sound cone is made of crumbles with age and exposure to the elements in the back.
I still have the original OEM radio with cassette player and the original speakers in my 1992 aqua...still working ok. (It was a one owner that was garage kept.)
The new rear speakers are for my original 1990 surf blue (323,000) that I bought new. It went through over eight years as a college student's car and now it's
back home to me. My youngest son had installed the Sony radio/cd. Now I'm just cleaning it up and getting everything back to working order so I can pass along to one of the grand kids when they start to drive.

Rear speakers started to become common in car here in the 70's.
Were rear speakers an option on the Canadian Festivas?

I have one car with rear speakers (I have 3 operational and running Festys) and one of my parts car LX also had them, but that's it. I think, because cars in eastern Canada rust out and largely retain no value within 10 years, that buyers tend to purchase basic (no frills except block heater/extra capacity battery/heavy duty heater (if available)) vehicles, especially so within the utility category. So yeah, for me to expect to find rear speakers in a running, or even junked Festy is not expected. Neither are alloy wheels, power mirrors, cloth seats or any other amenity beyond what up here is described as a "plain" or "stripper" vehicle.
Festys covered a lot of ground (and gained a loyal following) in southern Ontario as economical, durable, reliable and easy to maintain delivery vehicles during the late 80s to late 90s.
I still love the way they climb curbs and turn on a dime. New stuff all suffers from broken air dams and cracked bumpers the moment they leave the pavement, slide into a snow bank or touch a curb.
7 years ago my daughter (brand new licensed driver, age 16) slid out on the highway in a snow squall and launched over a frozen snow bank, 60 feet down an embankment, missed a fence and a dozen small trees, slowed through a ridge of cattails and wound up wheel deep and perched on the thin ice of a swamp. Tow truck driver didn't have anywhere near enough chain and got her out with spare ropes etc. Money changed hands and the car fired right up and she (daughter, and my car) drove away unscathed (except for all the grass and branches stuffed in all over). Me, I was much more leary of lending her my DD after that.

[1990new]

Replacing original rear speakers

Great story Bert...I guess you saw the one about my aqua being declared totaled by the insurance co last fall. Accident involved a NISSAN Altima and a Maxima and my Festiva was the only one able to be driven away. Little but tough they are.