i just bought 2 6 1/2" sony xplods for my doors. how do i go about installin them. opening the panel and all the goodies.

 

Nope go ahead and take off the entire door panel start with removing your pillar pieces, they pop off. Then remove the screws from the inside piece of your door handle and the bottom trim on the door. Your entire door panel will then need to be lifted up then out and there you go. reverse this process to re assemble.

 

I have a 98 so this may be a little off but it should roughly be the same. First the cup panel, where you put your hand to pull the door shut has to be removed. Mine pops upward and off but it is very snug and a B to get off. A dealership can do this for you quickly and charge like 10 bucks. They have a tool for this that looks like a crowbar, but a screwdriver or lots of finger strength works. Once the cup panel comes off you need to disconnect all the wires on the backside which should just screw off. The next piece that comes off is the small curved piece behind the door handle. Once you take the cup panel off, just put your hand down that area and push on the back side of the handle piece. Usually pretty snug as well. Also, i forgot, there should be 1 screw in that opening of the cup panel that attaches the entire door panel to the metal part of the door, take that out. Now that everything is disconnected, you just need to grab the door panel and pull upwards with it. Should slide off but like everything else it might be alittle snug. The speaker part is self-explanitory.