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      07-31-2014, 08:00 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by punchyninja View Post
Thanks for the post. I've been really thinking about doing the upgrade myself.

How hard was it to get the door apart? I'm worried about snapping something, or having trouble getting it all back together.
There's a couple of stages of removing the door panels that are a bit of a challenge. The Focal speaker kit comes with a plastic tool to help remove the door panels but I had some other similar plastic tools that I got from another speaker kit for my previous BMW. Having these extra tools helped in some areas.

The video on the Focal web site covers most things but there were two areas that differed:

1. There was no mention of that the upper trim piece had to be removed from the door panel as there are two screws behind it. See my photo above. I was able to carefully lever the flat plastic tool starting at the rear edge of the trim and it eventually popped out.

2. There was little mention about the black plastic trim that goes all along the window that contains the tweeter. It's one long trim piece and I found that removing the whole thing made it easier to pop out the old tweeter and fit the Focal tweeter securely. It actually should be possible to replace the tweeter by just removing part of that trim, enough to allow you to lever that trim piece towards the interior of the car to get access to behind it. The part of that trim that goes around the window is removed by pushing outwards, starting from the tweeter end. Having the windows down makes it easier to do this.

I should caution you that all of this is definitely a DIY job but if you end up forcing a trim piece too much it could be an expensive part to replace if it breaks. I've done stereo upgrades on two other BMWs before so I had a bit of confidence doing the X1 upgrade myself but you have to realistically assess your own skills.

I should also offer that if anyone in the Vancouver area is looking to do this upgrade I would definitely be willing to assist. It took me 3 hours to do my installation but if I did it again it would easily be about 60-90 mins at the most.
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