Speaker quit working

[JoesSHO]

I installed a new Pioneer 3700 head unit last night, and everything worked great- this morning, the right front speaker quit working.

I pulled the panel off, and re-wired everything from the factory wire to the Kenwood replacement 5 1/4", and the Kicker tweeter the car had in the door- there was also a crossover for that one. I tried factory wire (FW) to the Kenwood, FW to the Kicker w/ crossover, FW to Kicker w/o crossover, FW to a different speaker (spare) altogether and the best I got was 1/2 volume from the Kenwood, and minimal sound from the tweeter. I also tried swapping wires on the deck to see if the LF channel was blown, and it didn't work to that bank of speakers either. It sounded like something was blown- faint sound at hign volume only- the other side was loud 'n proud.

Now, after I installed everything back, and I'm getting no sound at all out of the door, period. Nothing! I checked the wires, and I'm getting 4 Ohms to the end of the wire- heck- to the poles on the speaker, but no sound.

I'm not an audio expert, just good enough to (I thought) install my own stuff, which I have done before with no incidents!

I removed the stock JBL sub and the sub amp, would this have something to do with it? I cut the wires for the sub, and unplugged the sub amp wiring. (The silver amp) I ran my wires like this-

From deck, I plug into a Scosche harness for JBL, hooked the blue amp wire from the deck to the remote on my Rockford amp, and use the pre-outs for the amp signal. Other than that, everything else runs through the harness. Did I blow the JBL sub for that speaker?

Need help!

 

[NiNeTy Fo SHO]

First off, the 4 ohms you measured was the speaker itself. The speaker is a 4 ohm speaker...that is its resistance. Just letting you know what you were not testing the wiring from the headunit, nor the headunit itself there.

Now, if you have some sound coming from the speaker but not all the time, I would say there could be a few different problems.
1. Speaker is blown. (try hooking up the factory JBl and see if it works ok)
2. A wire in the trunk/dash/door is shorting out. AKA the positive and negative for the front door is getting shorted somewhere giving you little to no sound.

I would try those first. Check things out and if still nothing, come back and see what someone else had to say.

 

[JoesSHO]

Figured it out

You know the saying- "It has to break sometime..."

Well, apparently the factory wiring to the left front decided to crap out in between swaps. Hooked new wire from deck to speaker, and voila- it works.

Starting new thread for new question- getting wires throught the doors!