Recently, my stock speakers stopped working. They may have gotten a little too much rain on them, but they last for a long time. I ordered a set of Polk db521s for the rear pods as that will be all I replace for right now. I have never touched anything audio and have searched looking for how to hook up the Polk speakers to the stock wiring. Do I use connectors? Or cut the stock wire and run different wire?
The stock connector plug at the end of the speaker wire won't plug onto the new speakers. I usually either cut off the connector and crimp on new spade connectors, or sometimes I use a short section of the wire that comes with the new speakers and solder the wires to the original wires. Either way it's an easy job, just have to figure out which wire is + and which one is - on your original wires. You can also buy adaptor wire harnesses for the speakers that plug into the factory connectors, but it's easy to get by without them.
Keep in mind that speakers need to be wired properly so they are "in phase" with each other. That just means the speaker cones are all moving in/out together so you get the best possible bass and sound.
So when you wire up the new speakers, just connect the wires to the new speaker wiring terminals the same exact way they were connected to the old speaker wiring terminals. The same wire goes to the same side speaker lug in other words.
Okay so I finally got around to installing the speakers in the pods, and after crimping on female disconnects, and then attaching positive to positive and negative to negative, I'm still getting nothing. This has me baffled at the moment and I would really like to play a few tunes while I drive with the top down. Thanks
Could be the rear output channel on the head unit is fried. Could also be the connection on the drivers side roll bar, could also be bad wires between the head unit and the speakers. If you have a multimeter with an audible continuity setting you can easily check for continuity between each end of the wires. Also check the audio settings on the head unit, fader might be set to front only, my kids used to screw up my radio settings all the time.
So I checked the audio settings, and nothing was out of the ordinary with the fader. Are there any fuses behind the glovebox that could have gone? I may have to look into squiring a few tools that would be useful for audio.
Pull the radio out and hookup the speaker directly to the radio wiring to eliminate bad wiring between radio and soundbar. If your radio was exposed to rain along with the stock speakers, it's likely that was the issue and a new HU is needed.
Just wanted to update everyone, after several weeks of going with out my radio (which actually was really nice for a change) I decided to install the speakers again and everything seemed to work out perfectly this time! So everything is working and all good!
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