OldFartAudio
CarAudio.com Regular
So my Metra brackets came today and I went ahead and put the Oz Vector 6.5” into them. I am trying to do everything as right as possible because I am not a fan of Jerry rigging things. I used some foam weather strip tape to gasket them and I am going to see if I can gasket the brackets to the door as well but it is 97 degrees out and I am not going much further today. One thing of interest for Focus owners is that I am planning to flush mount the tweeters into the A pillars. I have pulled the passenger pillar out already to check and see what was behind it. There is a side curtain air bag mounted on it but there is clearance toward the bottom that looks like it will be enough room. For y’all who don’t know the Focus has factory tweeters in the sail panels but the factory brackets and grills are integrated so much that it is a huge pain to replace them. I have been around the web looking for ideas and the consensus is either hack them up and glue the new tweeters in, replace them with coaxials and keep the factory tweeters or not depending on your preference. Most shade tree guys don’t wanna mess with the A pillar because of the air bag but I was a mechanic up until about 4 years ago and the air bag doesn’t scare me. Disconnect the battery and put the ground the positive lead to the negative lead for maybe 30 seconds to a minute and all residual power should leave the system. My method is that I am not going to touch the air bag. Anyway, I thought it might be good to document the install since it is of interest, especially to ST owners.