I am in the process of replacing the oe stereo with an allKenwood system. Complete with a cd/mp3 deck, 4way 6x9's (rear), 3way 5.25's (front), 10" dvc woofer (inverted from rear dash), and 4ch amp 800watt. I am completely stumped on how to fit the front speakers into the door panel and make it look good. Any ideas or leads?

 

There is no way to install speakers in the doors and make it look or work correctly. There is very little depth because of the window regulators. One can fabricate a pod to fit on the door. The 124 body will accept 4" coxials in the front dash corners and 5.25" in the rear package shelf corners.To have any kind of accurat, tight bass requires a particular enclosure for the 124. Because the rear deck is 1/8" steel, and Mercedes engineers spent many hours designing ways to keep noise OUT of the interior of the car, having a box pump bass into the trunk doesn't quite do the job. A bare driver ("free air") also produces fairly weak bass. A bandpass type of enclosure with a top exiting , square, port that is partially external, can protrude through a square cut opening in the rear deck and deliver the bass to the INTERIOR of the car. The wires should be dedicated and definitely not go through the dirt-collecting fader on the console. There are two "pass throughs" behind the rear seat back on left and right sides. P.