One of my door speakers in my car has stopped working. Can anyone tell me why?

Question

I fitted some new speakers into the front doors of my cars. They worked for the first month but the other day the left speaker was just silent. No sound comes out of the speaker. All of the other speakers are working fine.

Answer 1

maybe the wire got cut or broke.. or maybe you blew the speaker out with the music. that's what happened to my cousins trans AM

Answer 2

Ok, there is probably nothing wrong with it that cannot be fixed. First off check all your fuses in your fuse box and make sure they are all connected and not blown. Second if there is no problem there, then move on to taking apart your door (sometimes you can just pop off a grill and take out the speaker but most the time you have to remove the whole door panel). Start by looking around your door for hidden screws and such that may hold the panel on, usually there are a few nears the inside of the panel and one or two around the outside. Remove all the screws visible and then pop out the locking/window console (if you have one in your armrest) usually there is one s***w inside the armrest that also secures the panel. After this take a flat-head s***w driver and pry off any trim on the panel (like plastic trim around the inside door handle) and then start on the lower left side of the door panel and begin to pry it loose and work your way around the whole panel, it will take some force and the rest of the panel should be secured by plastic push-pins under the panel that can be pried loose (take it slow and dont break anything), after you have the panel off turn on your car and try working the speaker, place your ear up against the speaker and listen for any noise...check the cone of the speaker to see if it is dented, blown, or damaged. If you have not yet found the problem then remove the speaker and check the wiring present on the speaker...like any component wires (make the the negative and positive terminal wires are still held on and are not torn anywhere), if the wires are loose re-attach them, if the wires are torn then you will have to replace them with wires from an audio shop. If the speaker seems fine then check all wires coming from it that are present on the panel, replace any damaged wires. If you still have not found a problem then take the speaker inside and hook it up to a something different, like a home theater amp or even your television if you have an audio jack that you can strip and attach to the speaker, if all else fails you can attach the wires of the speaker to a battery (something big, a car battery would be risky but might work) and see if it produces any sound (it will be distorted blaring sound so do not leave it on for long just tap the wires to the battery and listen for sound) if there is sound then the speaker is probably fine and you will need someone to look at your car and find the problem, if there is no sound then there is either a loose wire or the voice coil of the speaker is damaged or destroyed.

Answer 3

check your wiring in the door were you have hook them up at first.

Answer 4

it has to be the wiring, if you can next time you connect them just solder them

Answer 5

It is hard to say. Obviously check the easiest things to repair first. Loose wire at the speaker itself. Take the speaker out and check to see if the wires are loose. If they are not. Plug them onto another speaker. If the other speaker works then your speaker is blown. If it doesn't go to the other end of the wire. At the amplifier. Unplug that speaker wire from the amp. Get a different piece of speaker wire and plug it into the amp and then run it to any speaker. It that speaker works..change out that entire speaker wire run to the door. It has a break in it. If it doesn't work then you have lost an amplifier channel.

Answer 6

May be a bad speaker, loose wire, could be a bad radio, or most likely a broken wire.

Answer 7

probabaly just a loose wire

Answer 8

Faulty wiring.

The bass can sometimes shake the wiring loose if it's not soldered.

Answer 9

loose wiring!