OK this is just a poll to check out how everyone else is doing in regards to aftermarket components (specifically the 5 1/4 mid range) in the door location.

It seems that I am having an extremely, extremely, extremely, bad problem with water leaking into the compartment and getting the back of the components terminals rusted (and corroded). Anyone else have any problems with water in the door panel? Or know of a sure fire way to prevent it from happening (like where is the seal, etc, etc.) I ordered a set of 6 1/2 baffles, and hoping that will help the situation out greatly, but wanted to see if anyone else was having a problem or if I am just having bad luch.

 

i had some water seeping into the speaker section too but just on the drivers side. the leakage was bad enough that it went thru that cloth that covers the speakers. i did buy some speaker baffles from crutchfield and put it behind the speakers...also taped up all the holes i could find on that white plastic. that seemed to do the trick.

 

http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S...2&I=237XT52+++

 

Thanks for the help all,
I was figuring I would be needing the XTC baffles (with the wisdom & assistance of Silverknight ), so I placed an order for them. Now the question is did I place the order for the correct ones?? I have the MB Quartz DSD216's & ordered the 6 1/2 XTC baffles, 3" deep. Hopefully these will work.

The depth shouldn't be a problem should it? And I figure that we should probably poly fil the baffles, cut a hole for the speaker wire, and lube the sucker up. Should I also go ahead and lube the back end of the baffle as well?

Again thanks everyone for the assistance/\

 

Man, don't know if I'm taking this off topic, but my CL "flooded" last weekend. Unfortunately, we have the side parking spots in the car port and the storm gutters point right where our cars are. Usually not a problem (doesn't rain a hellofvalot in LA) but it was pouring last week.

Next day there was at least 1/4" of standing water on the floor (front and back). What I don't understand is that NOTHING in the car was wet except the floor. The windows were up, sunroof closed, and door shut. There was no evidence of water anywhere on the door, ceiling, etc. Again, just on the floor.

I used about 10 towels to soak it up and eventually rigged up some hair dryers (3 of em) with some ductwork to dry it out (took about 8 hours at full blast even with the car in the sun). Least it didn't mildew.

The only thing I could think of was that I didn't re-seal the front seat bolts after I took it out to run the amp power wire under the carpet. Is there anything I should have done? I just put the bolts back and screwed them tight... didn't think it would be a prob.

Anyone have any ideas?

-- Nihil