how to change front speaker wires
 

well how do i change my front speaker wires? they started not to work so i got new head unit and wiring harness for head unit 2 jeep connection and still the fronts dont work (and i tested the front speakers, they work)! so anyone done this? or could there be some kinda fuse? HELP!

My left front speaker in my 01 quit working, talked to the guy at the local stereo shop, he said it's a fairly common problem. Wires break in the boot between the door and the body, so I pulled the kick panel and door panel soldered in a new wire and amazingly enough it works like a champ!

Jim S

As a reinforcement this IS a VERY common issue on the late models.

This reply is correct, they usually crap out in the boot.

My usual fix for this is to just run new wire from the head to the speakers.

I figure if the stock wire goes out as easy as it has, might as well get rid of it and just run some new quality wire instead of wondering how much longer it will be until the factory wire fails again.

This is also a good excuse to toss in some better speakers too!

hit up wall-mart for $50 bucks you can get the wire and a set of speakers

my 01 had both speaker wires not working so I just spent a day running new ones through the doors, been doing great ever since

yea i'd just run new wires and the best way it would be to do this is run the wire through the dash and when u get down to the boot cut the stock wires tape the new wires to the then pull the old wire out of the door (this way u don't have to fish the wires through the boot.) it worked great for me on my 88.

In my '99 the speaker wires were wrapped with the other wires (power locks/windows/mirrors). The speaker wires broke in the boot, multiple times it would seem by the way the P.O. spliced it 4 times on 1 strand and 2 times on the other...

I started with a spool of 16gauge wire at the dash with the radio out, ran it within the dash (your route doesn't matter as long as the wire doesn't ride on anything that moves or is sharp) and to the kick-panel area. Keeping the wire on the spool until you are done entirely with that side will save you from cutting it too short and wasting the wire.

Using the old wire to pull my new wire through was impossible, so I used a flat-head screwdriver to pop the boot within the kick-panel as well as the boot between the door and the vehicle. The kick-panel boot is big as is goes into the sheetmetal but was so tight around the factory wiring that I couldn't slide anything through, so I VERY carefully punched a hole through the rubber portion above the original wiring and slid my 16gauge wire through it.

Then I fished it through the between-door boot and into the door. Give yourself plenty of slack in the wire thus relieving tension to lessen the chance of the new wire breaking. Then hook it up to whatever speaker you are running. Re-secure both boots, they mash in pretty easily and have a nice rim that rides the sheetmetal, and make certain they are seated well so that your wiring never touches bare metal.

Hook it up properly to the stereo and rinse and repeat on the other side and you are golden.

hmm... sounds great! thanks guys! :notworthy:

"SOUNDS GREAT" on a thread about speakers!
Was that an intentional pun?

haahahaha!!!!! :rofl: wow i didnt even mean it! lol