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Speaker problem in car

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Moisty_Goat
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I was wondering if anyone has any ideas about what possibly could have happened in my car,

The wires from my deck are spliced together with the wires that puts them to the speaker with electrical tape which i know is not the best thing to hold them together at all

So this distorted sound would occasionally come out of the back left speaker and if i shook the deck it went away so i figured it had something to do with one of the wires back there messing up, i wasn't all that worried about fixing it right away tho cause a little shake of the deck and it went away

However as i was driving home today the noise started being constant from that back speaker so i figured that the wire must have come undone or something

I popped out my deck and sure enough the two wires were completely apart so i re connected them and made sure it was a really good connection

I put my deck back in expecting the problem to be solved but was surprised to hear there was no sound coming from any of my speakers, just the sub pounding away

Does anyone have any idea what could have happened? Literally all i did was pop the deck out and reconnect the wires that had come apart but now none of my speakers work
Nov 2 2009 11:30PM
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Shadows
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solder them and see if it works. bet it will
Nov 2 2009 11:34PM
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Moisty_Goat
Posts: 601 - Karma: 31
Well see they were working fine up until i fixed the one that had completely come apart
Nov 2 2009 11:35PM
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kingsskier
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You may have shorted wires out if the wired that disconnected and touched other wires. Also, you might just have shitty or old wires. The quality of wires makes a difference as well as a good ground. Try checking your ground and see if there are any burn marks on any wires to see if one got fried. Maybe try a new wire harness and splice it and put wire caps on it and/or solder and cap them.
Nov 2 2009 11:53PM
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WikiWiki
Posts: 5584 - Karma: 426
what he said- plus dependeing on your head unit it may have a protected mode for the amps- either shut your ead unit off completely or disconnect and reconnect the battery- that should reset everything-
Nov 3 2009 12:10AM
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KrazyistKarl
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if you dont want to solder then get crimp on connectors, way way way easier to do, but for sure get something else other then tape.
Nov 3 2009 12:34AM
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DeucesStreetwear
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i would rewire these particular speaker wires. sounds as if like someone mentioned before u could be shorting out ur speaker. this could become a fire hazard..a buddy of mine works at a car audio store and said i coulda had an electrical fire cuz my amp ground wire was too small so urs seems to be worse. take it somewhere and just ask what u can do to fix it. most car audio places dont mind taking a look at it.
Nov 3 2009 1:06AM
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