Speaker grill fitment

[pp6000v2]

My rear pods are currently silent since I moved the speakers to the lower faring pods.  For the lowers I used the CVO grills and they look and fit great.  When I finally get my PBRx2 amp and either a third set of the MM651's or the 62.11i's for the rear pods, I see the P/N 76000318 Boom 6.5" rear upgrade speakers come with grills that A) look good as far as I'm concerned and B) cost less than what the CVO grills do ($19 versus $30 on New Castle). The P/N for the Boom 6.5" grills is 76000324.
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The install instructions for the Boom speakers say that the speakers will only fit '14+, so I'm curious enough to ask whether there's a physical reason why these grills wouldn't just fit either speaker selection I mentioned above (2001 FLHTC with Hogtunes pods, openings eased to fit 6.5" speakers already)

[UltraNutZ]

I highly doubt it.  what you'll probably find is the spacing between the screw holes is different therefore only perfectly align with the 2014/2015 pods.


what I mean is I highly doubt they are any different "fitwise" than the previous grills.  I was thinking about doing the same thing with the lower CVO grills I am using now. 

[pp6000v2]

So they're hedging against making people have to drill new holes in their plastic pods and managing to set the bike en fuego, or is the screw pattern on these '14+ grills some non-square arrangement?

[UltraNutZ]

the screw holes on the pre 14 bikes don't match any speaker other than 1 vendors speakers that I know of and I'd think that's mainly because that stuff is made in the same factory as HD crap is.

so it stand to reason, and I never measure them myself because the speakers I put in ARE going to require new holes be drilled, that they either changed it to a standard speaker screw pattern or they have some other oddball screw hole pattern that's new and improved for 14+ bikes.

[pp6000v2]

Apparently these are the standard rear pod speakers/grilles on the CVO Limiteds. I guess to keep the factory stealth look I want, it's worth a shot to try them. God, why do the Polks have to come with such awful speaker grills?

[UltraNutZ]

no kidding.. those are the fugliest wagon-wheel grills I've ever seen..

[pp6000v2]

These aren't exactly winning any awards either. And as I've come to find out, the tweeter is mounted in the grill so it's not removable/suitable for in the faring

[UltraNutZ]

yep those aren't very appealing to me either.. but hey everyone has different tastes...