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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 04:54 AM
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So today my speakers are giving me a hard time. I have component speakers in the front and stock speakers in the back and subs in the trunk. I was blasting my music like always, and i had to stop a red light. I hit the brakes and the speakers turn off. all of them, and the subs still hit and play with the music. I hit the gas and they turn back on. Im like wtf?

I brake at another light and they turn off again and stay off while i gass. I pass over some bumps and they turn on again. Im guessing its a connection problem. Anyone have any ideas? or experienced something like this? Btw aftermarket headunit avicd3, speakers connected to that no amp.
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:02 AM
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You can control your speakers by simply breaking! that's sick!
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:06 AM
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if you have a bad connection on one of the speakers and you hit a bump and it ground out against something the Hu will shut off all the speakers until the grounding out stops(you hit another bump) and them resume powering the speakers look for loose connections at the speakers or at pinch points where they go into the doors. its shutting off to protect itself
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:14 AM
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FUUUUUUUUUU


looks like i have to take apart my doors before i go to jons lol
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:17 AM
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if you really want to find the problem quick, pull the radio and disconnect all eth speakers but one and go for a ride, then slowly add them back in to find the faulty speaker, do you have factory wiring to the components?

you could always ask some Noobs for help, they apparently seem to be audio savvy all the sudden

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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:18 AM
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Yup factory wiring going to the crossover to the components.

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you could always ask some Noobs for help, they apparently seem to be audio savvy all the sudden
Dont get this, was this suppose to be a joke? lol

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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:19 AM
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yeah sorry my humor failed
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:20 AM
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its okay i know one noob that thinks he knows all though

im hoping one of my electrical tapes just fell of due to the heat. I soldered all of the connections on the wires.
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:21 AM
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i was hoping you had poorly run aftermarket wiring to the doors, that would be the problem if so hmmmmmm, id recommend doing the radio trick to track down the problem before pulling the door panels, cause the problem might be behind the headunit, did you use tape or solder/tape or connectors on the wiring behind the radio?

if everything cut out id say it was the ignition wire on the radio but its not, do the radio trick first, because the rear panels are a b!tch to pull for no reason

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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:23 AM
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solder/tape for the connectors behind the HU.

The back speakers are stock, so i dont think they are causing the problem. Its either the front speakers or something behind the headunit is groudng out. Like i said the HU stays on and the subs keep bumpin

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id bet on behind radio for my first guess
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:31 AM
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Yeah ima try that first. I really hope its something simple and easy fix. I dont want to spend my morning debating on whats wrong.
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i spent multiple hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my sub/amp only to find out it was a faulty fuse block, and no it wasnt the fuse it was the block itself
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 05:37 AM
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haha that sucks. I spent over 12 hours installing a full system in a acura tl and finding 1 speaker not working. Turns out the portfor that speaker on the amp was faulty.

I just want to see a open wire not protected by electrical tape and taht will make me happy.

All fixed :D

my baffle came loose and knocked off the neg wire of the speaker

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Originally Posted by Joyride
Yup factory wiring going to the crossover to the components.
sad to say i had something similar lately except it was my momo tweeters that i blew when i did that
Old Jul 23, 2010 | 11:43 PM
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did you cut out the stock tweeter? My stock tweeter has been long gone, and it wiring soldered together to run the signal
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good, yeah it was going into protect mode
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Originally Posted by Joyride
did you cut out the stock tweeter? My stock tweeter has been long gone, and it wiring soldered together to run the signal
we wired everything from stock wiring to the crossover and then wiring from the crossover to the tweeter is upgraded wiring
Old Jul 24, 2010 | 04:05 PM
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Use some liquid electrical tape. It wont have the chance to fall off. But A+ on the solder.

Originally Posted by Joyride
did you cut out the stock tweeter? My stock tweeter has been long gone, and it wiring soldered together to run the signal

From reading this you soldered the negative and the positive together? Thats a problem if so.

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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 06:30 AM
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no.. there are 4 wires. 2 of them are pos and 2 of them neg. Pos to pos and neg to neg. The signal never get interrupted.



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