Although I see tons of them on the road, I haven't been able to find very many build logs or install info for a Mazda 3 (2006).

Specifically, mine does not have stock tweets in the sail panels (manual mirrors) so sail's are out without replacing both side mirrors and wiring the power to them. Has anybody had any luck with other locations - ie. top of the door skin or forward on the A pillars? Inevitably I'll play around with the exact location & aiming once I have my set but I want to make sure that the tweet I pick up will fit in the likely location.

Appreciate any other suggestions with regards to this car as well.

 

its a hard setup do perform as ive tried this with my mazda 3 good luck tho

 

depensind on the specific tweeters you have there's a lot of good and bad locations for your tweeters. Also you skills as an active listener will play a big part as well. If you know what a sound stage and imaging are, then the only way to go about your install and try many many different locations and see what works best...

If you've read up on what a sound stage and imaging are and don't fully get it...and are really just looking for good overall sound without all the highly technical active listening.. then so long as the tweeters have good off axis, you might want to put them in the a-pillars, or down in the kickpanels.. try both..see what works better for you.

 

Thanks Brandon - not overly motivational...

Sikk - Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'm trying to head off any purchasing mistakes with feedback from those in the know. I've taken a 15 year+ hiatus from car audio (since I got my first company car) but had built a car for competition back when IASCA first came into existence. I was originally just going to throw together something basic that would be better than stock but have been listening to some components over the last few months (no I don't make decisions fast!) and won't be happy unless I do it right...
I'm now looking at a set from Rainbow, Hertz HSK, Dynaudio 242GT or Hybrid clarus (haven't heard this last set but seems to review well!). Wide range of tweeter configurations / depths here though so I was hoping that someone might have gone through this and can eliminate something because it simply won't fit (ie although HSK & Clarus tweets can't play as low they might be the only ones that will fit in the upper door card).

 

Just picked up Dyn 242GTs, so they're going to have to fit somehow... Will take some pics along the way.