Lexus, Mark Levinson 6 Inch x 9 Inch Foam Auto Speaker Repair Kit FSK-6x9TOY (Pair)

Used this kit to repair the foam surrounds on a 2004 Lexus GX470 with the Mark Levinson system. Watched Simply Speakers YouTube repair videos a couple times before getting to work. The videos were concise and easy to follow. Took me about an hour per speaker to clean and remove the old surrounds and install new ones. Speakers sound exactly like new. Awesome product, love that I was able to fix the speakers instead of buying new ones.

I applied this kit to the two front door speakers of my 2004 RX330 and the results were awesome! The sound has been restored, dollars have been saved, and I didn't throw away these great 15 year old, OEM JBL speakers used by Toyota.There was a plastic oval retainer cover that I had to remove using a heat gun that was covering the outer edges of the speaker foam. Once both the OEM speaker foam and plastic oval retainer cover removed and cleaned I could then following the instructions of changing the new speaker foam. Since Simply Speaker gave extra glue, I used that to reseal the plastic oval retainer with two c-clamps until it was dry.I'm so glad I used this repair kit that moments after I heard the results, I ordered the kit for the two back door speakers foams!!!!

This was a great buy for the money I was about to spend at the Lexus dealership approximately $700. I watched the video and then watched another video on YouTube on how to properly removed the door panel on Lexus sc430 and did the job myself! The glue is still holding and the speaker sounds great! No more obnoxious rattling noises!

Repaired the infamous Mark Levinson 6 x 9 door woofers in a Lexus SC430. The old surround foam wasn't torn yet, but at the verge of crumbling along the outer edges after 13 years.(Of course the subwoofer surround was torn)Toughest part of surround replacement was thoroughly removing all old foam and glue. Alcohol wetting and scraping of the frames and cone took about an hour each speaker. A brush to apply the alcohol is a must. Wood chisel worked well for removing glue residue once the alcohol softened the original glue to gummy/gel consistency. I scraped the frame down to bright bare metal. The cone was cleaned down to the actual cone fabric. You can scrape the cone with your wood chisel while supporting the cone edge with your fingers from below.Provided adhesive was easy to dispense, tacked up in a reasonable number of minutes. Just enough time to get things positioned, but not so slow that you had to hold things together forever. Centering the new surround was easy. I didn't really need to do much manual repositioning, a power supply set to low output let me raise the cone for glue application or push up agains the new surround.Once secured to the cone, it really was only an hour before I could glue down the surround edges to the speaker from. Again used current to raise the cone for glue application. Then reversed polarity to drop the cone and surround down against the frame for five minutes. This let the speaker's own coil provide even pressure and centering.Nice repair - even for a novice. Just be patient and carefully, gently remove all the old glue and foam.

Fairly easy repair and allows you to refurbish OEM speakers to sound like new for $20-30. I've often tossed out speakers with dry rotted surrounds and replaced with aftermarket, but this is a great option, particularly with upgraded OEM audio systems. You don't have to worry about finding a matching impedance speaker, spending $100+ on aftermarket speakers and mounting kits, and potentially making audio quality worse by using speakers with lower efficiency or the wrong frequency response curve.For my Lexus set, I glued the surrounds to the cones, let dry for an hour, and then glued surrounds to frames. I put the bracket on top which helped hold the surround down uniformly. Make sure the voice coil is not rubbing before it dries and shift if needed, but this is pretty easy to do.

I originally thought my door speaker was blown and needed to be replaced to the tune of about $300. After reading about the common failure of the foam that attaches Lexus/Toyota speaker cones to the speaker frame, I ordered this repair kit for less than $25. The new foam fit perfectly and fixed the problem. Removing the old glue was tedious and took longer than expected, but other than that, the installation process was very easy.

The lip on the foam is too small I have been trying for two days to install it thinking I was doing something wrong but I have seen their youtube video and I still can't get it to work. The foam just doesn't stretch enough to connect my speaker.. I Wasent even going to give them a bad review but no only do they sell you a really cheap foamt that doesn't fit your speakers for half the price of some decent 6x9, but they also refuse to return their product.. sad

Tiny pieces of foam and tube of glue. One of my speakers was shot even after the repair. Oh well I'll leave that one unplugged until I replace them both.