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IanT wrote: 28 Jul 2016 12:43 You forgot "the arm hanging out the window" bit with the seat back!! Think the golf drivers do that to dry their nail polish :rolling: :rolling:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: .... yeah true...but the Landy Discovery drivers do that too, but at least with the seat in the normal position....hahaha
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I wonder why Nissan fitted a Bosé sound system (speakers and amp) in the Pathfinder and then went and fitted a run of the mill set-up in the Patrol.

They did the same with the Diesel engine. They installed an old run of the mill 3.0 (118kw/350nm) engine to their flagship range, whereas they were simultaneously fitting much more effecient, frugal and much more powerful 140kw/450nm engines in the Spain spec Pathfinder (and Navara) in the 2.5d 4 cylinder and the 3.0d (176kw/500nm) V6 engines!!
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mvcoller wrote:I wonder why Nissan fitted a Bosé sound system (speakers and amp) in the Pathfinder and then went and fitted a run of the mill set-up in the Patrol.

They did the same with the Diesel engine. They installed an old run of the mill 3.0 (118kw/350nm) engine to their flagship range, whereas they were simultaneously fitting much more effecient, frugal and much more powerful 140kw/450nm engines in the Spain spec Pathfinder (and Navara) in the 2.5d 4 cylinder and the 3.0d (176kw/500nm) V6 engines!!
550nm... elke bietjie tel...
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Sorry Reenen, jys reg,550nm.....
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So i got myself of 6.5" replacement speakers for the front. Not really to worried about namebrands as the system is just there to entertain me on the road and keep the vibe going.

Not going to have music thumping and base rocking. That would require a amp and i really don't want to go down that rabbit hole.

The original fronts are mounted within a plastic housing but for some reason the new speakers didn't fit in them.

So we did some grinding away of some plastic to make the new speakers fit into the housings. Not sure if its the brand of speakers or if the 6.5" were to big but i see most replaced their originals with 6.5" replacements.

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At least the end result is I now have 5 out of 6 working speakers compared to the 4 out of 6 which i had before. Will trace the problem on the 4th speaker next weekend.

On a side note, I will have to take off the door panels again and fix the window rubber. When i removed the panel i took them off separately and damaged them so will have to refit them properly again.
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you do have to trim the inside of the plastic housing to fit some speakers.
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Anthony Forgey wrote: 04 Jan 2021 12:21 you do have to trim the inside of the plastic housing to fit some speakers.
Thats exactly what we had to do Anthony. Was worried we messing up but it turned out good.
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