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About a month ago I thought my front passanger door speaker went out but then was surprise when it started playing audio again. It does this quite often now, cutting in and out. I pulled the door panel thinking I may have had a loose connection but it still has the stock pigtails on.

 

So now I'm curious when a speaker goes out/bad can it do what mine is doing? Would a simple speaker swap fix this? I've changed the head unit, could it be the head unit? I am not running an amp to my speakers.

 

Steve-

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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I have that prob with my stock unit.

 

thought the speakers were gone as they vibrated weirdly to base notes...now they're fine...weird...but I'm not complaining as now I don't have to replace them.

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I have that prob with my stock unit.

 

thought the speakers were gone as they vibrated weirdly to base notes...now they're fine...weird...but I'm not complaining as now I don't have to replace them.

 

hmm... I think I'll end up going to wally world and pick up some pioneers from them and give them a shot. However if it turns out to be the head unit, I do have a warranty for it and will use that. I hope however its not a bad wire that is taped up.

 

Anyone know what color is the positive wire? Dark Green or Light Green? I believe those were the colors.

 

Steve-

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I hope however its not a bad wire that is taped up.

Anyone know what color is the positive wire? Dark Green or Light Green? I believe those were the colors.

 

Steve-

 

God...don't go sayin' s**t like that....

 

 

The polarity doesn't matter, as long as both speakers are on the same polarity. it should be a similar wire setup on both sides. dark color and a light color. Make sure you have both darks on one polarity and both lights on the other.

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I hope however its not a bad wire that is taped up.

Anyone know what color is the positive wire? Dark Green or Light Green? I believe those were the colors.

 

Steve-

 

God...don't go sayin' s**t like that....

 

 

 

did I say something that I shouldn't have?

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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I hope however its not a bad wire that is taped up.

Anyone know what color is the positive wire? Dark Green or Light Green? I believe those were the colors.

 

Steve-

 

God...don't go sayin' s**t like that....

 

 

 

did I say something that I shouldn't have?

 

The stuff in the red text..LOL Nothing worse than chasing a wire thats all taped up, or running in a conduit.

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My 03 does the same thing on the passenger side so I thought it was my Pioneer HU. I put the factory back in and no change,you'll be going along and all of a sudden it starts to work.

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yup...thats exactly it...except for me its the DR side.

And it comes back in just as randomly. It hasn't done it to me in a couple months now. I thought it may just be a dirty CD player, until it happened when I had the radio on one day.

 

Maybe its an 03 thing...LOL

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yup...thats exactly it...except for me its the DR side.

And it comes back in just as randomly. It hasn't done it to me in a couple months now. I thought it may just be a dirty CD player, until it happened when I had the radio on one day.

 

Maybe its an 03 thing...LOL

 

 

Well good news so far, it was the speaker. I took a test light to the factory wire while I had the stock speaker installed and it lit on both wires (I thought that was weird).

 

I skipped Wal-Mart and went to Car Toys instead and bought some Infitity 6022i speakers. They sound good, I'm not amping them so they do the job so far. I just wished that factory speaker mount would have worked for these. That has to be the simplest way to install speakers.

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The test light will work on both wires because the output signal to the speakers is an AC signal

 

The Sine wave created is varied in amplitude and frequency to produce the vibrations in the speaker.

 

The positive half of the wave pushes the speaker dome out and the negative half pulls the speaker back. the faster (frequency) it vibrates the higher the tone, and the larger the movement(amplitude) the louder the note.

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Hello all, I have a 96 Sierra and I also have been having the same problems that you guys have been having. Except mine cuts out all speakers but the right front. Then today while looking at the radio trying to find a loose connection, Smoke starts coming out of the back of the radio. weird, especially sine the radio still works the same, in all functions, just have intermittent speaker output. I am confused. Any one ever see similar things from their systems?

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Hello all, I have a 96 Sierra and I also have been having the same problems that you guys have been having. Except mine cuts out all speakers but the right front. Then today while looking at the radio trying to find a loose connection, Smoke starts coming out of the back of the radio. weird, especially sine the radio still works the same, in all functions, just have intermittent speaker output. I am confused. Any one ever see similar things from their systems?

 

hmm, doesn't sound good at all, time to replace the head unit. Is it stock? Any blown fuses?

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NO, no blown fuses, and it has an aftermarket head unit already in it. It may never woke again after the mystery smoke! I went and got a multimeter today and I am going to start chasing wires tomorrow!

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