Thanks Wurz, I put my speakers partly to support the rear lid which is the ex-back seat
back rest support. I housed the speakers in custom made recycled pine offcuts.
Hidden and loud when I tried them with a quick hookup to a 80w unit.

Is it really worth having a set of speakers in the doors when you've got a set in the kick panels? Not much point having them there, i'm leaving the ones in the kick panels and put some tweeters behind/near the headrests. Not that a sound system is much chop when i've got a straight through tuned length exhaust haha.

You could but without some kind of an enclosure behind them itd sound pretty crappy. not sure about the sedan but in the wagon theres more than enough room to fit 6x9ins in the cards behind the seats.

Im sure its only a matter of time before the cops ping me for it unless I can convince them its professionally installed ;) . I tried one of those window suction cup holders before I did this but there was nowhere I could mount it without being in the way. But the ashtray is really made for it in position and proportion!

The only problem with this one is that the bit that you stub yr ciggie out on obstructs the "home" key of the phone, could always cut it off, but I like the way it still resembles an ashtray and as I mentioned, probably the less spent playing with the phone in the car the better...itd be also good if it was bluetooth equipped, I cant find a way of making calls come through the speakers :/

Wurzel, That is exactly what i was thinking of doing ... As clyson mentioned the glovebox takes away from your vision, but the ipod dock brings the vision back onto the road ...

How do you guys go with speakers?

I dont want to cut holes in the doors for speakers, anyone mounted them under the dash before?

I had to cut a fair bit out as it had the old square and 2 hole tape cassettes In there, for which the hole was a bit higher , but not really noticable once the faceplates are installed.
I still cant believe it fit...on my 1200 the wiper arms would clip the back of the stereo, so it seems there is more room behind on a 1k dash?

The round part is touch sensitive and lights up when you put yr finger near it so the part where youd want to put a logo is where the volume controls are...the only real drawback on this model as its a bit awkward making circle motions with your finger...i tend to just use the remote.I dont see any reason why you couldnt black out the writing on top tho...who knows maybe this or the next model you could just upload a datto screensaver ;)

BTW, the red missile switch "arms" the stereo as there is no acc on my ignition, so I thought if I gotta have a switch, its gotta be one of those ;)

Dundee...Im having problems visualising what you mean, got any pics? Im not that familiar with the different kinds of dashes aside from this and the coupe... so mine is a later model dash?

Has anyone drilled through thier doors yet to accommodate for stereo/central locking wires? It seems you could fit a nice set of 4 inch speakers in the door without cutting in the triangle recess under the window winder...

Yeah the ebay ones are cheap, maybe the JVC is about 400aud?
If so Id rather spend the rest of 380 on new roof lining and
chroming my bumperettes :)

wurzels stereo and iphone integration is great.

ive left the stereo brigade now and listen to my car- i love it- no music at all.

if you hid one of those ones in the glove box D that you found on ebay- they would be a great budget set up- especially the cig lighter powered one- quality would only be as good as the speakers but it would just be back ground music, not a power house.

That looks bloody fantastic Scully.

I had my stereo in the glove box and that was the biggest distraction (no peripheral vision of the road at all!)

Nice head unit and all too, I suppose when you turn it off it's just a black piece in the dash?
(Oh, yeah.... just had a better look.)

Top stuff. I'm working on a stereo system too but it'll be a while before it goes ahead.

Its quite a glare strong modification when doing it to white cars but I do love the
early dashes more than the later ones.
Anyone know how I could fix the temperature guage? mines kaput all of a sudden

wurzel..
do yourself a favour, grab an early instrument cluster, pull the crashpad out and glue the ally trims onto the dash thats underneath.. looks a treat.... even the recess for the ashtray is pressed into the dash..and it's all in original shiny body colour..