Next up, this was kind of a slightly larger project.
The car came with HiFi amp and speakers. I wanted to improve the sound a bit and wanted to install the Top HiFi (H/K) speakers in the car.
So for those interested, the HiFi system has an around 200W amp and 9 speaker system. Its rather easy to increase this to a better quality system by changing all the mids and adding two extra tweeters to make it a 11 speaker system. (could also add a tweeter to the centre, but I will tell later why I didn't in the end).
By the way, this is by means no audiophile route and I am sure some won't like it. But it fits my music taste and its more about me personalising my car.
So first I started on the centre speaker behind the nav display. Very easy to remove with trim remover tools. just lift up the grill and it will pop out.
underneath you fill find the speaker (s).
3 screws and lift the speaker, unclip blue connector.
Hifi Midrange part number: 65139169689
Top HiFi Midrange:65139368383 or 65139169690
Top Hifi Tweeter:65139184795
to fit the tweeters you will also need two extra screws as they won't be fitted on the HiFi model (though it seems if you had a very early F06 HiFi equipped car, these came with HiFi tweeters and they would have the screws)
Screw part number: 07149185673
The crossover capacitor goes in this slot, which will come pre wired in the tweeter.
Connect tweeter into the mid range speaker, and mid range to the car and screw it all back down.
Before and after.
and push the grill back down. Job done. You can mediately hear that the Top HiFi speakers are louder and clearer, the tweeter really helps the highs.
*I did end up removing the Top HiFi Tweeter from the centre channel at the end after I had fitted all the other speakers. This is to do with stereo sound spacing and the tweer in the centre was making it worse I thought. Will explain more later. This maybe why BMW too removed the tweeter in the LCI F06 HiFi models.