2020 CX-5 (KF - Pre Facelift 2017-2021) Standard 6 Speaker - Door/A Pillar Mounting Locations/Dimensions

[brateliff]

I am planning a speaker install and wanted to see if 8" door speakers might be an option with minimal fabrication (speaker rings and maybe a thick gasket).

Unfortunately I was having problems finding information about dimensions around the stock speaker mounting adapter in 2nd Gen, Non-Bose, 6 Speaker CX-5s.

So I took my driver's side door panel and a-pillar off, then took some pictures with measurements. I thought I would share the measurements and pictures here, just in case someone else goes looking for this info:

Stock Door Speaker Driver Diameter: 6.5"

Stock Door Speaker Driver Depth: 1"

Stock Door Speaker Mounting Ears: 1.25"

Stock Door Speaker Outer Lip: 0.125"

Door Speaker Mount Flange Width: 7.5"

Window Protrusion into Door Speaker Mounting Hole: 2"

Door Speaker Flange Mounting Depth: 4"

Stock Tweeter Diameter: 1.5"

Stock Tweeter Depth: .75"

A-Pillar Tweeter Mount Outer Grill Diamater: 2.25"

A-Pillar Tweeter Mount Interior Mounting Ring/Adapter Diameter: 2"

 

[brateliff]

Initial Thoughts:

-An 8" speaker ring mounted to the stock 7.5" mounting flange, will only overhang by .25".

-It looks like a 1" thick speaker ring+gasket would leave an aftermarket driver pretty close to stock mounting "height", with 5" of mounting depth.

-The A-Pillar is might fit a 3" full-range with a mounting ring. Doing this, without it being ugly, is another question.

It will probably be many months before I'm ready to start buying drivers, but I'll follow-up with a new thread at that time.