After months of driving the 2cv with no radio, I thought it was probably a good idea to put my super dooper car radio with USB input and play from memory stick capability into the Smart to replace the standard Smart radio/cassette.  It was supposed to be put back into the 2cv at some point, but I will probably use it more in the Smart anyway.

The radio went in, but sounded a bit odd - Corinne Bailey Rae sounded like she was singing underwater, although surprisingly Guns & Roses sounded perfectly ok….new speakers were needed.  Not as easy as it sounds, as there is limited room for replacement speakers, and the doors are so long, and my legs so short that to put speakers in the doors would have put one behind my seat - not ideal!  In the end we settled for some speakers and speaker boxes from Smart that fit under the dashboard where the old ones are, and separate tweeters, and set about installing them.

It was very cold…..and it took most of a weekend….brrrr.  Little did we know that routing the wiring from the tweeters in the door panels into the back of the radio would involve taking off all of the front outside panels of the car!  Certainly sounds better now though, and now I have a car that is has warm seats, few rattles and an audible sound system without CDs.

So, picture of the week for Project 52?  The reason for the terrible sound - can you believe the size of these speakers that came out of the car:

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