help!! door speakers stopped working

[94mustanggtfast]

so i took the subs out of my car last week in anticipation of selling it. well now the door speakers dont work i checked the fuses but they were ok. i dont know what the problem is any ideas?

 

[ttocs]

mach or not? Stock or not? amps or not? assuming a 94 or not? be happy to help but so far will all the details of - speakers don't work - all I can do is agree with you.

yes your speakers do not work.

 

[Tony]

lol, dam scott.


pop the door pannel and check the connection. if good, check the connection on factory amp...if it has it like scott said.

 

[sn95jones]

I'm going to go out on a limb and says he has the Mach system and the subs were probably factory. Regardless your factory amps aren't working, you either friend them from just age or you tried using aftermarket subs on factory amps. Either way you need new amps.

 

[ttocs]

it could be as simple as a blown fuse fellas telling him to take stuff apart and look is just telling him to chase his tail until we know whats in it. Happy to help but you have to help me help you.

 

[94mustanggtfast]

it has kicker up front and stock in the back. its not the mach all the wires are good and yes its a 94. the radio is working what fuse do i check? i know theres 2 fuse boxes and its probably the one under the dash but i pulled almost all of those out and checked them. they were all good. could it be the radio? its aftermarket but never had trouble with it

 

[Tony]

so kickers in the doors? those are what is not working?

 

[ttocs]

if you were running kicker speakers off of the stock amps then more then likely you drove the amps too hard with the lower impedence that the kickers are. Pull/check all the fuses both under the dash and the hood to be sure they are all good. Is the deck stock?

 

[ttocs]

that is assuming the kickers replaced the woofers but again I am assuming alot here since you have filled in a few details.

 

[Tony]

it could be as simple as a blown fuse fellas telling him to take stuff apart and look is just telling him to chase his tail until we know whats in it. Happy to help but you have to help me help you.

but he said in his op that he already checked the fuses and they are good. i'm assuming he already checked the fuses and they are good, lolol.

sounds like a connection prob..short somewhere. unless he completely blew his front channel on his head unit?

 

[ttocs]

yea when I hear someone say that they checked fuses I assume the worst(which is more common in this case) that they took out their manual. found the page the fuse schematic is on. Then sat and read till they found a fuse that they thought would be related and then went and checked it. CHECKED ALL THE FUSES - no sorry there is more then one for the audio system especially with the mach. Until they tell me that they have pulled and checked every fuse in the car(total of 3 mins which is still 10 mins faster then getting the manual and checking the one) I am not ready to say that the amp has power.

just like he said all the wiring is good..... As an installer I can tell you a story of a customer that told me that while asking me to check out why his amp would not power up. While we were on the way out to the car he was telling me I/we should hire him because he does all his friends stereos. I went out to the parking lot to find he not only did not put in the fuse in the fuse holder but had also grounded the amp to a plastic panel, with a plastic screw. He earned the nick-name band-aids when we pulled his deck to find that he used band-aids to insulate all his connections - he was pretty proud he used the good cloth kind though......

So you ask why I assume the least out of what people tell me? It saves me time and more often then not, is not far off. They just really don't know better most of the time.

 

[ttocs]

Some people like to call me a cynical. I have to correct them that I am more of a mysanthrope - look it up and you will understand more about me....

 

[Tony]

i'll look that up tomorrow. lol

 

[94mustanggtfast]

i checked all the fuses under the dash and under the hood. pulled them and looked at them. it could be the head unit but it lights up and acts normal. are there amps in a !994? iv never seen any. and the kickers are in the doors and the ones above the back seat are stock. they all worked before the subs were removed. the wires are all tapped off so the power wire doesn't ground out. BAND_AIDS really?? i feal cheap when i have to use harbor freight connectors im not a professional but i dont take shortcuts and i dont half ass wiring its a pain to do once as it is. the cars not with me right now so i will have to do more diagnostic work later.

 

[ttocs]

ok so it sounds like you don't have the mach system but still not sure if the deck is stock or an aftermarket.....

 

[framda]

Scott is right. So many people take a path that seems easier to them, but in actuality it takes much longer because they skip stuff that doesn't seem important. Murphy's law loves these guys!

 

[Tony]

well if he has already stated that he does not have the 460...he has already stated the radio works, just not the front speakers. nothing about his description of probs says check blown fuses, lol. he doesnt have the mach 460 amps, and im sure he has checked his radio fuse when he said he checked fuses. and usually a blown radio fuse would mean nothing would work. not just certain speaker, lol.

i'm almost sure he wired in 2 kicker door speakers and did'nt assure a good connection. either behind the deck or in the door. bet ya it's not a blown fuse, lol.

 

[ttocs]

for both speakers to drop out at the same time I am not sure what it is. I was assuming he had the mach system which was causing the problems and could have been a fuse it only took 3 times before I got my questions answered it was non-mach. Now that we have figured out it is not a fuse then it is time to go check all the connections but he already told us the wiring is all good so I am not sure what to tell him. Pull the deck and check the connections behind it, then pull the speakers out and check the connections behind them. If you just assumed the wiring was good earlier and did not check it then this will be a good time to do so

 

[Tony]

lol, i agree he could throw a little more info at us....no need to be secretive op, lolol.

 

[94mustanggtfast]

it is an aftermarket deck cant think of brand off top of my head. when you said deck i automatically thought of the speakers over the back seat. neither the stock speakers in the back or the kickers in the doors are working. they were working before taking my 12 out now there not.