Originally Posted by CMMC

If you are going to re-do your headliner while you do the speaker bar, you can try this: Before removing the headliner, test fit your speaker bar. Mark the location you will want your attachment stud, transfer this to the roof behind the headliner, you can ues a punch or little drill bit etc.. After you pull the headliner out find the mark you made and use a rivet in the location without breaking off the "tail" you can use this as your attachment point.

With all that said, I think the dome light in the rear on the 97+ uses the same stud you need. Since you are going to remove the dome light to install on your soundbar the stud should work for all!

Did you manage to get the wiring with your bar? If so you may need to change the connectors out but it should work. My (Wife's) 97 actually came with the 91-96 sound bar in it! Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by sik_xj

so no cutting is involved?
Just new screw holes?

Originally Posted by xj_maniac_newb

shouldn't be. I used two of the holes on mine and self tapers on the other two. If you do have to trim it, its nothing much AT ALL. may differ with the different speakers you get. but I've put kicker, SPL, Infinity, and Polk 6.5 in the doors of these jeeps (all years 2 & 4 doors) and the most required was new screw holes. You may get a speaker that is oddly large and need to trim, but I've yet to run into that problem.

Originally Posted by sik_xj

Alright thanks for the info!