How do you remove the door speaker on 2003 silverado?

Answer 1

Assuming you do not have the Bose system, it's actually pretty easy.

1. Pop the plastic locking mechanism off the door panel.

2. There is a 7-mm screw underneath where the the locking mechanism used to be. remove this.

3. There is another 7-mm screw just below the door handle, the one you pull when closing the door (look for the hole). Remove this.

4. There is another 7-mm screw under the bottom edge of the door panel. Remove this.

5. Pop the plastic cover around the opening handle, the one you pull up on to open the door. A thin flathead screwdriver will do the trick here.

6. Pop the triangular plastic cover off that is at the front-lower corner of the window. Start at the top because the bottom of it is a tab that slides behind the metal. If you start at the bottom you might break this tab.

7. Now just lift up on the door panel and it should slide off.

8. The next trick is unplugging all the wires. Some are simple, others a little more stubborn. Just keep in mind that they all have some snap-clip mechanism that must be pushed to release the wire connector. The trickiest one is the big connector to the power windows and locks. There is a gray lever-looking clip on it that must rotate out to release the whole connector. The spring/snap clip is located at the outermost end of this gray lever. The little door light at the lower outside corner of the door simply pulls out of the lamp housing with the bulb still attached. It is snap fit but it does not lock like the other wire connectors.

The door speakers in an 03 Silverado are component, meaning there is a mid/bass driver and a tweeter. The factory tweeter has a capacitor soldered to its leads which I think is acting like a simple high-pass filter. I wouldn't connect an aftermarket tweeter directly to it wires as they may not be filtered and could easily blow a new tweeter with low frequency signals. Definitely use a crossover with the tweeter. I bought an aftermarket mid/bass-tweeter combo that included the crossovers and it works fine. I just wired them to the wires for the factory mi/bass driver and left the factory tweeter disconnected. However, I'm thinking about reconnecting the factory tweeters just to see if I like the sound better.