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Recommendations for rear deck speakers, 8'' s70

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Recommendations for rear deck speakers, 8'' s70

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Hi all,
So one of the rear deck speakers in my s70 has blown, I thought I would just hop on Crutchfield and find a speaker fast, but apparently they are 8'' speakers, there are some marine 8 inch speakers I could buy, or a couple options on Amazon, does anyone have a recommendation for a pair of 8'' speakers that will fit the rear deck in the s70?

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They are a bit of a unicorn. Blaupunkt had a model GTX803 several years ago that could be screwed into the OEM frames but they are no longer available new.

Before I sent my daughter's S70 off to the junk yard I pulled them and I still have them. PM me if you are interested.

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Can I use marine 8” speakers, seem to be a lot more options when I type in marine

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The important part is the diameter unless you want to fabricate a plate to put in 6.5". Marine should work fine so long as the magnet isn't too huge.

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Post by misha »

Crutchfield have wrong info about speaker size for 850 and i guess it's also wrong for s,v,xc70 speaker size.
I would use other site's info or measure the old speaker diameter.
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Does anyone know if the rear deck speakers are the same in the 2001 s80 as they are in the s70, I think they are. I’ll go junkyard hunting this weekend.

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Post by callahanoffroad »

I used 5x7" Ford sized speakers for the rear deck. I opened up the plastic casings, cut out the old speakers and screwed in the new speakers. I used the oem connectors from the original speakers and soldered the wires to the new speakers so that everything was plug and play. Here's the link to the speakers I bought.

https://www.scosche.com/hd-speakers-5-x-7-6-x-8-set

Cheap speakers from Walmart. But they are bumpin'. So I like them.
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