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[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

I have one hell of a problem for all you experts out there to take a crack at, so here goes. I was rewiring my Boston Accoustics component speakers one day, seeing as how the previous owner of my 1990 4Runner had installed them, but didn't believe in taking the time and effort to do things right (driver side tweeter never worked). All i did was pull off the door panel, disconnect all of the connectors (highs and mids), clean them off, reconnect, and put the door panel back on. It was at this point that I got in my car to test them out. I still had the driver door open, and was listening to the music, proud of myself, when I shut the door. I noticed that every left side speaker (tweeter, mid, and BACK?) had stopped producing clean music, and was now just emanating a hissing, crackling noise, almost as if I had blown them all out. needless to say, this worried me, so I went to get out and inspect them, and as soon as I opened the door, all three started working again. This seemed odd to me, so I did some experimenting. I discovered that if i shut my door just enough to click and latch, the speakers would still work. When I proceeded to shut the door all of the way, they stopped. Somebody please help me with this, because I know it is just a simple wiring problem, but I don't know enough about this stuff to go tearing apart my door, and also do not want to go to Circuit City and pay them 80 bucks to reconnect one little wire or something. Please either post messages here or email me at NYyankeeman@hotmail.com. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

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[KoBan715 10+ year member]

Well there alot that could be wrong there could be a hole or cut in the wire's and when the door is open it pulls the wire away for the metal and when you close the door it touches metal again make it sound the way it dose. or theres a - and + touching some where when the door is close and pulling the door open stops from touching due to bad wireing. Try rewireing

from the deck to the speakers. Havent install in 5 years these just some problems i had installing.

 

[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

I see where you are coming from on this, but I think you may have forgotten one of the most bizarre parts of the situation, and that is that my back speaker goes out too. I don't know anything about elctricity, but this doesn't make sense to me. Tell me if I am wrong

 

[KoBan715 10+ year member]

look at the wireing in the back of the deck make sure there all covered and connected right. Keep us posted. ILL try to help as much as i can.

 

[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

well, before I discovered/created this problem, I had already bought a new CD deck. After I had the problem, I had it installed with my fingers crossed hoping that it would solve the problem. It didn't, and I had it installed prfessionally, so I don't think that is it.

 

[splunky 10+ year member]

Just a suggestion take it back to where it was installed and tell them it quit working the next day. Or if that is to dishonest for you just look closely at the wire between the door and the chassis. I would bet Koban is correct in assuming that the wire is shorting when it is bent from the door closing. The reason it might effect the back speaker would be that many decks share the same amplifier circuit for front and rear if one is dead shorted the other quits as well.

 

[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

I tried that thing with the installer, they shut me down. I guess I am not a good liar or something, because they knew right off the bat that I was bullshitting them. I will check the wires. What do you think would be the easiest solution if the wires are rubbing together? do you think I should just splice in a new wire, or what?

 

[KoBan715 10+ year member]

trying running new wires from deck to spearkers.

 

[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

I am not really experienced enough to get behind the deck. I could run some wire easy, but I think it would probably be easier to just pull out the wire as far as it would go from inbetween the door and the body, splice it, and then push that back into the body. Do you think that would work?

 

[splunky 10+ year member]

find the copper first (bare wire)//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Nyyankeeman 10+ year member]

what do you mean? do you mean when I am splicing it?

 

[splunky 10+ year member]

first you have to find the bare wire that is short or you might as well pull a whole new line.

 

[chris229 10+ year member]

yea it is a bad connection. You must have damaged the wire in the door. IT can either short out on the car body OR the other wire. In either case it will cause all channels or some channel to crackle OR not work at all.