245 Volvo Rear Door Speaker Replacement For some strange reason, my 245 came back from college with the radio presets changed from classic rock to country western - and both rear speakers blown out.   I looked at Infinity Reference speakers, but finally concluded that for speakers that are used to listen to talk radio in a noisy old station wagon, $35 Sony speakers would be adequate.  However, I wanted them to use the Volvo speaker covers and look original.  This was the original speaker. It is not necessary to remove the door panel to access the rear door speakers.   You just have to cut off the pop rivits that hold the frames to the fiberboard. The part that I failed to photgraph was cutting the old speaker free from the frame that the speaker grill snaps onto.  That was the part that took the most time.  The same dremel tool that cut the rivets did the job, but I broke a number of abrasive wheels before I was done. The Sony speaker sandwiched nicely between the frame and the door panel, and the Volvo grill snapped back on.  I doubt that anyone will notice that it is not a Volvo speaker.  Sound is not great, but certainly acceptable for what I paid for these speakers and what I use them for. View from a distance. A couple of years earlier, the amplifier went dead.  I bought a $70 Sony single CD head unit with a plug for an external music source.  I got a wiring adapter to bypass the Volvo amplifier from Best Buy Installation Shop.  They also had a faceplate adapter to make the head unit fit the radio hole in my dash.  The wiring adapter was a lifesaver, becase the wires from the amp to the speakers are not color coded, so that would have been a pain to sort out. The faceplate adapter makes the aftermarket head unit look quite stock, and this radio sounds better than the original Volvo radio ever sounded.  Also, I no longer have to pump tuner cleaner through the volume control every year or two to keep the volume control working.