After far to long, I finally broke down and decided I couldn't look at my dented fender any longer, and painted the Imola one I got off of Chuck's S4 black. He was even nice enough to help me install it! It would have taken me HOURS to figure out all the hidden bolts, but we got it done in two hours at a lazy pace. FINALLY, its nice to look at again. :)
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In mean time, I decided I could no longer stand all my blown stereo speakers either, so I tore out the whole thing and started over. It turned out to be a MASSIVE job and took me three straight days of work. I am a total car audi noob. Ugh. Infinity Kappa's in all four corners with a 4 channel amp. The biggest pain was mounting the 5 1/2's in the front doors. This required alot of trial and error and some special rings.
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The rear speakers were easy because they had addaptor brackets.
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The next nightmare was wiring the whole thing.
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Finally, done.
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Unfortunatly, I didn't realize what a total piece of crap the stock HU is and it makes unpleasant noises. Sigh, so that needs to be taken care of next. But at least it is a good start!

Just posted my interior for sale, but honestly have yet to swap the door cards 'cos I'd been planning to do a speaker upgrade...

Maybe this will help motivate me to get that done this weekend. Where did you get the speakers -- local or Internet?

Or maybe both. Either way, we hooked up an after market head unit and it sounded clean, so that stocker has got to go.

You pay more, but since I am a noob at this stuff I wanted their support and warranty.

Got a new ride coming? ;)

I had to make similar/identical rings when I installed my 5.25" Kappas in the rear of my Coupe.