ash3ktl

HI guys,

I've been going thru all the post abt the mod and decided to do it myself. Ordered DX6s from soundcity.com for $80. Arrived in 3 days(I live in the same state as them). I'm a newbie to all of this mods. I've no experience with car audio installations. I've seen the "How to remove door panels" faq. But couldn't figure some parts of it. I'd appreciate if somebody be kind enough to describe each or any imges in the above faq.

Thanks in advance and thanks to everybody who made this mod possible.

egilsrud

I had the same reservations myself, but it is actually very easy and can be accomplished in 10 minutes or less.

Here is a good written description of the procedure:

http://www.acura-tl.com/forum/showth...&threadid=9007

Give it a try - good luck!

Southbound

Great research and a good procedure to follow... Here are some tips that I posted when I took my panels off.

There is ONE more step that you must take in order NOT to
break anything...

The Door opening handle assembly must be taken off BEFORE
the door panel is COMPLETELY removed.

Take the two screws out, then start removing the bottom of
the door panel. There are only snaps that hold the bottom
and sides of the door panel on. These snaps are fairly
indestructable. You don't really have to be too careful about
pulling on the edges of the door panel.

Once you have the bottom half loose, you can lay on the
ground and look up and use your arm to reach up and
disconnect all of the electrical connectors. Just remember
that they all have some sort of strain relief locking tab
involved.

Before pulling the top of the panel off of the top lip of the
door frame, you must first take apart the door handle assy.
Slide it either forward or backwards (I can't remember which
way right now) and then it will pull out from the door frame,
that it is hooked into. Once you have the assy loose from the
door frame you can disconnect the electrical connector for
the door locks, and you must disconnect the mechanical
linkage that actually connects to the door latch. This linkage,
is a 1/8inch round metal rod that is inserted into a hole on
the back of the door handle assy. It may take some needle
nose pliers to reach it well... There is a swivel snap locking
clip that keeps the rod seated in the assy. Simply rotate the
snap around away from the rod, and then lift the rod out of
its hole. The door handle assy. will now come out in your
hand. After it is removed you can now lift the door panel up
and off of the top lip of the door frame.

A quick tip that I learned the hard way... PUT SOME
PROTECTIVE TAPE ON THE SAIL PANEL AND THE WINDOW
SILL NEXT TO THE DOOR LOCK! You must "wrestle" the door
panel off and back on the top of the door frame, and it is
REAL EASY to scratch the sail panel, etc. while doing this.
The chrome strip has sharp edges and I scuffed up my first
sail panel If you protect the areas with some tape before
removal you can save yourself that trauma. Once back in
place, remove the tape and you're ready to ROCK!

Good luck!
Southbound

You can also learn how all of this DX6 madness started by spending a week reading these old threads...

http://www.acura-tl.com/forum/showth...d&pagenumber=1

ash3ktl

Thanks egilsrud and Southbound. I'll do my research this weekend and keep u guys posted abt the progress.