!!HELP!!!front door speaker trouble

[kreatine30]

Sup people, just installed or attempted to install two side door speakers, plugged the wires in correctly positive to positive negative to negative....after that no sound, rear subs work fine, the dischanger works fine...just the side door speakers dont work....help

 

[Bzart]

Are the front speakers powered by the head unit or an amp?

 

[Genuine Rolla]

check your wiring again and make sure that you positives are going to the positives and negative to negatives. theoretically...there shouldnt be a problem if you wired them just as you have said.

 

[str8venom99]

this may sound dumb but check your headunit to make sure the fronts arent faded out.

 

[kreatine30]

the front speakers are powered by the Head unit which is on and full functional......yeah... the fronts arnt faded out.....my buddy was telling me that i might ahve accidentally made the speaker touch metal...which might have screwed it up?? Any thoughts?

 

[kaace]

did you turn off the head unit before you changed speaker? did you use butt connectors? (if so you may have over crimped them)...disconnect it from power and reconnect it...hopefully you didnt blow it up...

 

[kreatine30]

the wires are simply just cut and twisted together......

 

[senatE]

the front speakers are powered by the Head unit which is on and full functional......yeah... the fronts arnt faded out.....my buddy was telling me that i might ahve accidentally made the speaker touch metal...which might have screwed it up?? Any thoughts?

touching metal would have have done anything. i have installed speakers for a long long time and never have blown one doing that and over crimping them wont do qanything either. you have them wired backwards

 

[1999stockaccord]

the wires are simply just cut and twisted together......

are the connections covered?

 

[NoBoost]

touching metal would have have done anything. i have installed speakers for a long long time and never have blown one doing that and over crimping them wont do qanything either. you have them wired backwards

^^True statement. It just doesnt happen with speakers. Recheck all wiring, iimsure you will find your problem

 

[blk97civic]

if your subs ar hitting and you speakers aren't chances are that your grounding out somewhere!

 

[mramazing111]

are the connections covered?[/QUOTE]

i agree...make sure u tape them with electrical tape

 

[mastertee31]

Replace the wires completely to the door. I had some dead wires on the driver side door. (I had a break in the connection somewhere but checked with a voltmeter before replacing them) After I changed the wires, no problems.

 

[SpeedFiends]

Yeah like some of the guys said, check your speaker wires again, if the wires touch metal, they'll ground out and not have any sound. Were your speakers working before?

This is what you should have if I remember correctly, I just worked on one earlier at work

Left Front (+) Blue/Green
Left Front (-) Gray/Black
Right Front (+) Red/Green
Right Front (-) Brown/Black

 

[PhntmSk8r]

lol @ your buddy saying touching them to metal can cause them to blow.

Everytime i take my speakers out, i stick them to the top of my car that way i know theyre not going to move/fall and get damaged... and they work fine, besides... your speakers basket is metal, and its mounted to metal, using metal screws lol... its not going to hurt.

I think your wires are grounding out, or you MAY have the speakers wired into the wrong input on the back of the headunit.

 

[kaace]

if you touch the live speakers leads coming out of the back of the stereo to the door metal there is a chance that you will fry the amp in the head unit...someone correct me if i am wrong...which is why i asked if he turned the deck off before he changed speakers out...some people tend to drop the live speakers leads back in the door causing them to ground out...

i wonder if the guy fixed his problem yet?...and if so what was the problem...

 

[kaace]

touching metal would have have done anything. i have installed speakers for a long long time and never have blown one doing that and over crimping them wont do qanything either. you have them wired backwards

overcrimping them can cause them tohave no sound...if you use butt connectors and you crimp the wires too hard it causes them to break and seperate inside the vinyl sheath...everything looks cool but no sound..i've seen it...and done it...

he didnt use butt connectors so its not the case...

 

[kreatine30]

well it turned out that I DID put the live speakers back into the car, causing it to ground out... and i had to replace the entire unit....sucks

if you touch the live speakers leads coming out of the back of the stereo to the door metal there is a chance that you will fry the amp in the head unit...someone correct me if i am wrong...which is why i asked if he turned the deck off before he changed speakers out...some people tend to drop the live speakers leads back in the door causing them to ground out...