So today I finally pulled the front speakers out of my car. The previous owners had blown them, and I was sick of them rattling so out they came.
Driver's side was a snap, besides the fact that the screws are like three inches from the windshield.
Passenger side, though. I noticed there's something else attached to the speaker cover before I popped it off, but with no apparent way to access it, I unscrewed the cover and pulled and tugged 'til it came away. I couldn't get at the speaker connector from the top on this side, so I dropped the kick panels (and I'm not entirely happy with the way the firewall-side one went back in there when reassembled), and now I noticed a rubber hose dangling. Oh, and a foam tube attached to the hose. That foam tube which, as I touched it, crumbled more and more.
(Now, looking at the CD manual, I see I could have pulled the glovebox to make this task easier. Alas, I did not.)
What I'm curious about, should I worry about getting this foam hose replaced? What does that hose lead to? ...or is it just a negative-pressure sort of thing to make sure the sensor doesn't heat up in the sun?
For background, my ACC doesn't work. The servo cracked, and a few months back I just jumpered it so I have all heat all the time. I intend to fix it one day, although I'm still torn between the digital replacement vs. the remanufactured units that we all know about here. So, I'm not really sure if I even need to worry that this foam tube is non-existant. What say you, oh majestic MBZ intelligentia?
thx,
-tom!