Best way to attack speaker problem?

[AdamMk2]

Thanks mate, mega helpful.

Just a cautious question -  went to remove the stereo and its totally wedged in. It might help to remove the heater control underneath it - i can remove the casing but how do i get the temperature sliders out, can i just yank them?

If I remeber right the face pulls off after the sliders have been pulled out. then to losen off the heater unit you need to undo two screws I think  haha

I am assuming you havent got any remover keys for the HU?

You should be able to get replacement keys for HU to remove them, take the surround off first to see the slots 

What HU is it?

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[maxp]

What HU is it?

Wouldnt mind if it was some cheap crap but its an alpine 9887r im slowly bending and damaging 
Edit: finally got the b*stard out, an hour later. Pulled so hard the car was shaking at one point.

[sidecarphil]

Pulled so hard the car was shaking at one point.

 

been there done that

did you get it fixed ??

i re-wired mine when i put my pioneer speekers in the car

better now 

[maxp]

Sorry to resurrect this, but does anyone know if the footwell speakers run from the tiny dashmounted ones or from the headunit 'area'?

Pulled what i could out from where the stereo goes but couldnt see any purple/yellow wires.

[drapergti]

I don't know how they are wired in from factory I'm afraid (I am sure someone here will) however when I added my door speakers to a previous mk2 I used the dashboard speakers as a feed.

[k33p it low]

I had exactly the same problem on my 8v. the door speakers werent working. so I pulled the HU out and unplugged it and checked the wires going from the dash to the back with a multimeter for resistance.
the Problem was that some numpty spliced the wires for the door speakers into the wires going to the rear speakers, which increased the resistance in the wires so there wasnt enough power for the mb quat door speakers. what I did to solve this, I diconnected the sh!tty dash speakers and feed only the door speaker with the wires from the dash speakers. then repaired the cut wires for the rears and its working very well now and finally I can turn the radio up loud without the sh!t dash speakers crackling away. hope this helps.