My stereo has always run flawlessly. After washing my car today I turned on my stereo to hear the passenger speaker sounding very distorted. The words hardly come out from the song but if they its very distorted it sounds like listening to a station on am with no reception. It has a very edgy bang sounding if blown and I took off the door panel couldnt find anything to fix it. I have the panel sitting to the side im trying to figure out what to do to fix it. I never put my speakers loud enough to blow them, plus they were working fine last night. My left speaker, center and subs work perfect. Please somebody help I cant explain how much I would appreciate it. Maybe someone has had this problem. I just cant figure it out but im sure someone has the knowledge to help me! Thanks

 

Anybody??

 

Take the speaker out and connect the "+" and "-" wires to a 9volt battery. This should flex the subwoofer and you can watch to see if it is damaged or blown. You dont have too play your stereo too loud to blow a speaker. Also make sure the fuses in your stereo system or not higher than they need be

 

Dude, it's a 12 year old speaker. Plus, you didn't buy your car new. You don't know how the previous owner used the system. If it sounds blown, 9 times outta 10 it is blown. That simple

EDIT: On second read, it may appear that you have an aftermarket soundsystem. If you do, if you bought crappy or weak amps, that's a quick way to blow a speaker, believe it or not.

 

take another speaker (the one out of your other door...and hook it up where the problem speaker is...if it works it's your speaker...if it does the same thing...then it's either a bad connection or that channel in your headunit or amplifier (whichever you're using to power that speaker), is bad. Replace whatever is broken. Done.

 

kinda sounds like a bad connection, just take your wires off, sand down the connectors and reconnnect them, see if that helps anything.


Mike

 

Yeah I have a stock stereo system thanks for the advice guys I think im going to try one of those. Why and how do I sand down the connecters?

Channel in my head unit amplified I have the stock head unit hmmm

Appreciate the feedback guys.

 

Well if its stock it can be a multitude of problems. It sounds more like a defective speaker to me...........

 

Yeah I mean the speaker has worked perfectly for the 2 years I had it or abot 2 years so far. Im surprised anybody know where I cxan purchase one asap?

 

Which stock stereo? Bose? If it's the Bose system the amp for that speaker could have just gone **** up.

X-JaVeN-X had the best idea to isolate the problem. Swap the speakers and see what happens. This will verify if it is in fact the speaker or not.

9 times out of 10 if the sound is a scratchy or crackley popping noise it's not a speaker problem but an amp or speaker wiring problem. Blown speakers sound differently. The sound out of a blown speaker won't really track with the volume either; it won't get much louder as you increase the volume. If it's an amp or wiring problem the bad noises will get louder or softer as you make the volume louder or softer. Blown speakers make mechnical noises from the moving parts of the speaker. Electrical problems show up as the speaker playing whatever crap is coming through the wires.

This will only tell you if the voicecoil has burned completely open or not. A speaker can easily pass the battery test and yet still sound "blown". Obviously his speaker is not completely blown because he does get noise out of it.

 

Awsome advice its oviously not blown I believe its a wiring issue I will be figuring out now!

 

so have you swapped a know good speaker into that location to see if it does the same thing? Do you have the bose system or the standard system?

 

i have the bose system im gonna switch them tommorow let u know how it goes

 

Yeah so i have been very busy lately..im pretty sure im gonna need a new passenger side bose speaker. Can anybody tell me where I can get my hand on one. I want it as soon as possible so I can put all my panels back on.

 

www.crutchfield.com lotsa lotsa lotsa speakers there.

 

You finished washing your car? Sounds like water got in along the "infamous" trim seal and may have shorted out the speakers on the door. I read in a forum a while back that you may want to use marine apeakers on the door units.

 

yeah I did wash it man and im sure thats what happened but now I have no speaker at all and I dont know where to find a stock bose speaker

 

Anybody have one I can buy

 

ebay? rx7club classifieds?

 

Rx7 classified? I posted in the parts section in here but nobodys replied or offered me and I need it asap

 

keep trying in the forsale section...just make sure you're under 3rd gen section. alot of guys dump the bose speakers as it's kind of a pain to mix and match what I call "normal" stuff with bose nonsense.