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Both of my front speakers have corrosion on the connectors?

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tom5170

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Driver's side speaker was crackling and not very loud compared to the passenger side speaker. So I rewired all the connections behind the head unit - still no change. I swapped it out with a JY speaker - JY speaker crackled the same way.

Today the driver's speaker completely died. So I removed that door panel. I found green corrosion on the connector terminals and partially on the speaker terminals. I took apart the connector and sprayed the terminals with contact cleaner. I removed most of the corrosion on the outside of the terminals with sandpaper. I put the connector back together and the speaker comes on but it's very faint and crackles badly. When I wiggle the wires on the connector, the speaker crackles and cuts in and out.

I checked the passenger side speaker which had nothing wrong with it and upon unplugging the speaker and plugging it back in, it stopped working and now the count cuts in and out and crackles slightly. I unplugged that connector and discovered green corrosion on that one. I cleaned it and still cuts in and out now.

My guess is there's some corrosion inside the terminals, but they are too tiny to get something inside to clean the insides. So what do I do now? Find some speaker connectors at a junkyard? Wire in new speakers?
 


Year/body/stereo options.

In general every NEW set of speakers comes with new wires for positive and negative. I advise buying a new set of even entry level speakers and wiring them in.

Further, your window seal isn't perfect moisture will fall down between the window and the door and can overtime cause corrosion. If it happens extremely quickly the rubber seal on your window is probably bad and needs to be replaced.

Further, I know its cheaper, but try to avoid used speakers, without an accurate history you can often be buying someone else's worn out POS.

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02 gp. It just has the stock tweeters, stock 6x9's and the stock 5.25's. The head unit is an aftermarket jvc and it's about 1.5 years old.

i found some crappy 5.25's at auto zone for $15 a piece. I believe they are rated at 4 ohms and they are 2 way. Not sure if they are component or coaxial.

How do i I wire in the stock tweeters? I've read that stock tweeters with aftermarket speakers cause issues. Do I just splice the positive tweeter wire to positive speaker and negative tweeter wire to negative speaker wire,,, and then splice this to the factory positive and negative wires in the door?
 
2 way speakers are almost always Coaxial. Coaxial are multi piece speakers that share a single input. A lot of the time the factory tweeter blows out and people who put new lower door speakers in don't even bother wiring it in. I don't remember where factory tweeter comes off the factory speaker, not sure where the crossover is.

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