Sub woofer

[aai]

Anyone know if you can slip the subwoofer out from behind the seat when it’s folded forward without removing the seat? If not, does anyone have instructions or a specific tool list of how to remove the seat? I can’t find any PDFs here of the removal instructions, and I’ve see a few different tools recommended. Going to polyfill my sub, but also wanted to put some Noico butyl rubber behind it to try to cut vibrations.

thanks for bumping up this older thread. Just completed the poly fill but not the butyl rubber you described. It took approx 30 min start to finish being careful and remembering everyones tips. I was able to access everything by just standing beside the passenger rear door or on the floor sill. Just a few things I did as I remembered it.
* Recline rear seats forward
* Fold down driver and passenger rear seats by accessing the strings thru the center console (middle seat folded down)
* Carpet cover on rear (passenger) just needs to be pulled away from plastic cladding on passenger side, and one push in plastic clip needs to be removed
* T20 torx bit on 1/4" ratchet to remove the screws
* reverse process. It does make a difference and able to turn sub back up some. In general a mod just to get back to the addiction of car audio.
* pics attached, hope it helps

 

[392DCGC]

thanks for bumping up this older thread. Just completed the poly fill but not the butyl rubber you described. It took approx 30 min start to finish being careful and remembering everyones tips. I was able to access everything by just standing beside the passenger rear door or on the floor sill. Just a few things I did as I remembered it.
* Recline rear seats forward
* Fold down driver and passenger rear seats by accessing the strings thru the center console (middle seat folded down)
* Carpet cover on rear (passenger) just needs to be pulled away from plastic cladding on passenger side, and one push in plastic clip needs to be removed
* T20 torx bit on 1/4" ratchet to remove the screws
* reverse process. It does make a difference and able to turn sub back up some. In general a mod just to get back to the addiction of car audio.
* pics attached, hope it helps View attachment 60728 View attachment 60729 View attachment 60730 View attachment 60731

I ended up being able to pull the sub box out from behind the seat by folding it forward, same as your pic. Tight squeeze, but she came out. Not sure I noticed much difference with the Poly-Fil. I used about 4.5 ounces which lines up with recommendations I saw online of 1-1.5 lbs per cubic foot of box. Our boxes are only about 1/3 cubic foot. Think the rubber helped reduce some vibration, but not much. Had to add some foam behind the edges of the rear door panels. Next task is the rear window which is hopefully my last noticeable rattle source.

 

[St-na]

I believe main problem is backwall of the subwoofer box, despite the fact it has reinforcements, it's still too noisy, You can feel it, just given a small finger kick. I tried to insulate it by using some insulation, not sure if it helped, but for sure not worsen the sound. Wanted to replace original sub, by 10" Kicker, not enough room, no chance. I ended up by adjusting of equalizer. Not perfect, but better for sure.