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What just happened to my car audio system (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I decided to upgrade my car's front speakers and everything worked okay in the beginning but the stereo stopped producing sound after a while. After a lot of tinkering I found out that the amp wasn't working properly so I decided to buy a new stereo.

This time I installed my stereo and tested everything was working properly before I put everything back together, and it was. However, when I put all the panels back and turned on the car, there was no sound. After removing everything once again and testing each individual connection I found out that the speakers were not working when inside the doors but worked fine outside. I decided to rotate them inside the door and they are now working fine.

My question is, what could have actually happened? My theory has something to do with the magnetic field that the speaker produces, but then again I have no idea.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most likely one of the speaker leads was grounding against something when you installed them in the door. Window track possibly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This would make sense but when I removed them to rotate them, they seemed to have a pretty big clearance both ways. Although not being able to see what is actually happening when they are inside, maybe this is what was actually happening.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My first guess would be a speaker wire getting pinched against the door panel or a piece of metal causing it to ground like the other comment said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, now that I'm trying to remember I don't know if it had enough clearance but it didn't seem like a problem when I was installing it. Which leads me to believe that it wasn't touching anything that I am aware of.