I'm guessing this is an electrical/ground short issue and I uploaded a video so people can see and hear for themselves.
When I tighten the speaker against the door, the speaker starts to distort. When I back the screw off, the sounds goes back to normal. BUT there's no wiring behind the screw, so it's no making contact with anything inside the door. And I've had other odd problems with the stereo system so I'm wondering if there's some kind of electrical/ground problem that is causing this.
Background:
When I tighten the speaker against the door, the speaker starts to distort. When I back the screw off, the sounds goes back to normal. BUT there's no wiring behind the screw, so it's no making contact with anything inside the door. And I've had other odd problems with the stereo system so I'm wondering if there's some kind of electrical/ground problem that is causing this.
Background:
- 2007 Acura with "ELS" component speakers
- generally sounded fine but had fairly bad distortion that was only noticeable during certain songs at certain times when the problem was obvious to anyone not deaf. Particularly noticeable in front passenger door woofer. Speakers for this car are notorious for blowing out so I planned to replace the four front door speakers (tweeters and woofers).
- installed bluetooth kit with intention of replacing speakers thinking the problem was in the speakers.
- However, the front door speaker problem didn't go away if I swapped out speakers from other doors so the initial problem can't be with the speaker itself.
- around this time, and before speaker install, the distortion became 100 times worse throughout system and it was literally unbearable/unusable.
- replaced amp thinking the amp was fried, no difference
- replaced head unit - immediate improvement and basically back to how it sounded before installing bluetooth.
- BUT the front passenger door speaker again has static/distortion. With the music playing, I was removing the speaker by backing out the one metal screw holding it in place and suddenly the speaker sounded fine. Tightened it, sounds bad. I did this a few times. Same result every time: screw tight = bad; screw backed out a bit = good