A couple months back on a Volvo forum, a guy was selling a subwoofer enclosure and mentioned having some A-pillar tweeter pods. A few back and forth messages and for the price, especially as they included SI M25 Mk1 tweeters I had a set of pillar pods. I had Jason Carter expand the opening in the pods for me in order to fit SI M25 Mk2 tweeters, wrapped them in some black carpet and installed them in the car. But, I hated the different materials between pillar and pod, so ended up pulling them out, using body filler and blending the 2 together before wrapping in vinyl. Wrapping a pillar with a tweeter pod attached in vinyl is hard, strangely the passengers side ended up going on reasonably well first try (except 2 little spots right in front of the tweeter) but the drivers side one took me 3 attempt and still ended up with a couple wrinkles, that are thankfully out of sight.
Here is how they first looked, yuck... they were OK, but I did not like the way it looked like 2 individual pieces at all. The carpet on the pods was thick and looked out of place.
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Here they are after I wrapped them in vinyl and got them into the car.
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With the tweeters done, Anu and I discussed putting mids into the sail panels, which turned into picking up a pair of Morel Virtus Nano mids (they physically fit behind the stock grill, but then the mounting clips don't). Ian B ended up making me a pair of sails which are leagues better than what I likely would have managed. Installed those yesterday and am really happy with the look.
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Planning to tune them later, but overall this should provide a considerable improvement since my mids are now about 9" higher and an inch or two further forward than they were in the factory door locations.
