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When ever it rains or a wash my car the front pass side speaker located in the door get wet and sound horrible. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what to do to fix it. The only thing i can come up with is replacing the weatherstrip around the glass in the door. Item #3 and 4 in the attached pic. Does anyone have any other ideas on what I should do to stop it.

 
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that or a buy a speaker baffle

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-phax6mm...&search=baffle

 
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Thanks i had not thought of that. so, that is what those things are for

 
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I am guessin you just poke a hole in the back to allow wires out and tape them up.

 
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I don't think they are for waterproofing the speakers

Just for better sound, but in your case it could possibley help

 
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the description on crutchfield says nothing about better sound just waterproofing and keeping clean. But, if it improves the sound to thats just an extra bonus.

 
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i didn't read it

Cool though

 
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thanks again

 
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No that won't work. There is a bar behind the speaker so those won't fit behind there unless you cut it up, and then it won't help much anyway.

But my speakers get wet all the time. When I opened em up again to redo the install, there was water all over them. Still works fine tho. Do you have aftermarket speakers...because those should be water resistant. Factory speakers are paper and will just rip.

 
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audiobahn componet speakers is what i have

 
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so why do they sound bad? The cones are made of water resistant polypropylene or equivalent, and the surrounds are rubber.

 
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I have no idea. I thought it was because that are getting wet but if your are et and they work, I don't know. After they have time to dry out they work fine. At time they stop working all together and start back. This is just the woofer. The tweeters seen to be fine.

 
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My speakers also get wet but it doesn't affect the sound quality. but i am still trying to figure out why and how the water gets inside the door. it only happens on the driver's side but the passenger side is fine. I think the water gets on the speakers because if you have the inner door panel on the water runs on it but if you take it off the water just drips straight down into the door with out hitting the speakers. the water seems to be getting through in the corner next to the mirror. if any one knows how to fix it, the help would be greatly appreciated.

 
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this water in the door thing is annoying as hell.. i dont know if it does this on all cars or just ours.. now that its below freezing ive noticed that i have about half an inch of ice inside my door.. or well.. i did before i closed my door and it all broke apart.. my drive to work this morning was so friggin loud.. it was like someone had dumped ice cubes inside my door...

anyone have a way to waterproof the door better than the stock weatherstripping?

 
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You can't really seal that part or the window won't roll down. But yeah it's annoying.

 
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extreamly annoying.. this summer im drilling drain holes in the bottom of my door... well.. depending on where the weather stripping is located cuz i cant remember at the moment.. but if i can make it so that it drains to the outside.. its on

 
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on my car it only happens on driver side but not on a passenger side wtf??????

 
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My car speakers will just cut completely out when it rains or snows or any kind of wet weather. Ive redone the install twice on my speakers (Sony Xplod) and either time it did not help at all. Its extremely annoying.

 
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Lol well they ARE sony speakers. They're just not made as well so the rain shorts out the signal.

 
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I put a set of these in ages go. Everytime I wash the car, the speakers got soaked. The baffles work well, but you have to fit them a bit. I also used a little silicone where the wires poke through.

 
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So these did solve your problem?

 
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Yes. Took some fiddling to custom fit them, and some cutting. I ordered the shallow ones, and so far, no problems.

 
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Yeah so much water gets in my door my speakers are rusted!

 
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Same as I mine. 1 year installed in door the frame(aluminum) starts to get those dark rusts, on the magnet also....

 
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By installing speaker baffles, depends on the correct way to install it (I really don't know what is the correct way anyway. If somebody knows it, post it here please.), the bass response may not be that great. I tried installing between two spacers(because my old Type-X was deep), it was actually leaking because there's no way to seal on top of the baffle. Very annoying. But if I install it right at the buttom of the speaker, and running 2 tiny holes for the wires(actually the rubber on the wires seal up the holes too), the pressure is very high. What I mean by very high is that, I press on the cone, have to use some force to do it, and it comes back out very slow. However, upper midbass sounds nice though(because it's tight). Lower midbass suffers I guess.