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Old 04-30-2010, 10:06 PM
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W124 300TE Speaker Replacement on the Cheap!

I have a '88 300TE that has rotted speakers. The Rainbow speakers are nice but $320-$350 was a bit much. I determined that I needed 120mm in the Dash and 100mm in the two rear doors of the Wagon.

So after a lot of reading I found these Carpower speakers that I "hoped" would fit. I live in the US, getting Metric speakers is pretty much non-existent. The local car stereo guys would be happy to butcher some in for me, but I didn't want to go that route with inch sized speakers "cut in".

I found a place dealing them, they were $89 shipped Fedex Air to the US. $38 of this was the shipping.

Decided to shoot some pix of the Procedure.


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The Old REARs
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The Original MB Wire Pigtails
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Lined up for Re-soldering the Factory Pigtail to the New Drivers
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Door speaker re-mounted--Perfect Fit!
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Dash Speaker remounted--Perfect fit!!

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The speakers sound Good and the grills went back on fine and my wife is happy, and after all, that's what is most important! The speakers use the same mounting tab system as the original MB speakers, so they just snap in!

I ordered them from Europe-Audio dot com. They were fast shipping, got them in like 5 days after placing the order.

Hope this helps someone!

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Old 05-01-2010, 06:53 AM
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Nice find. I went to their website and have to wonder how you managed to pick the perfect fit speakers. Did you contact them for recommendations or were you just lucky.
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:45 AM
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Nice find. I went to their website and have to wonder how you managed to pick the perfect fit speakers. Did you contact them for recommendations or were you just lucky.
They couldn't help with recommendations, which I thought was strange. I found reference in a post somewhere and had made notes and found the speakers with Europe-Audio. I checked the specs on their site and figured they should work.
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Old 05-02-2010, 06:42 PM
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Good find on the speakers. Which ones went in the dash, the 101s or the 120s?

...I re-read your post. Thanks.

Last edited by 1988 300CE; 05-02-2010 at 06:45 PM. Reason: add
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Old 05-02-2010, 09:14 PM
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Good find on the speakers. Which ones went in the dash, the 101s or the 120s?

...I re-read your post. Thanks.
The 120's go in the dash.

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