wrote:

I have a Fiesta Mk III and I've been chopping and changing the audio
components for the last few weeks and I can't seem to get a good
enough sound.

I had a MkIII Fiesta as my first car. Here's what I did.

Front: Sony component speakers, 5.25" in the door, tweeter flushed into
the top of the dash (involved making a big hole in the dash but looked
pretty standard once the tweeter was in).

Replace the speaker cable going through the doors - it's rubbish, barely
thicker than bell wire. I used some 105-strand OFC stuff similar to the
Gale cable Richer Sounds sell for 69p/metre. This made a huge difference.

Pack some acoustic wadding into the cavity in the front door (bit of
fibreglass loft insulation will do the job), gets rid of the "boxy"
sound. If you can afford Dynamat as well then so much the better.

Rear: Sony co-ax 5.25", replaced factory speaker cable with 105-strand.

I had a Sony MDX-CA580 MD head unit with CDX-656 CD changer. Even with
the onboard amp this sounded pretty good, I later added a Sony amp to
drive the front channels and bridged into a 10" JBL sub in the boot.
This kind of made the car shake as you went down the road!

Ford speakers are rubbish on cars of that age...

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