I am unable to get the front speakers to work. I removed the door panels. I removed the old speakers cut the clip off, and I hooked up the positive and negative wires to the correct spots on the speaker. No sound coming from the speakers at all. Is there something I am missing? Thanks for any answers.

The speakers are Pioneer Premier TS-D802P . Also i have the base radio.

 

Don't know much about the car audio stuff on the RX8, but if its front speakers only, check your FADE first...i know i know....silly to think that could be it, but still.

If you have the speakers hooked up and still not getting anything (from both sides), you could have a malfunctioning head unit. If its not a bad head unit, it's going to be bad wiring somewhere (not likely). To test it you might have to splice into the FR/FL speaker wire coming off the stereo harness behind the stereo itself and hook them up to speakers to see if you get output. Its really gotta be 1 of 3 things:

Head Unit
Wiring
Speaker



Again, I'm not car audio pro, just tossing you some info that might help (yes it's basic info that most people probably know). Hopefully you'll get a guru help you out soon. Good luck!

 

Thanks for the response. I'm pretty sure its not the headunit, since the old speakers work. im using the orginial wiring.I'm wondering if I have to disconnect the stock tweeter..

 

Its been a while since I had stock speakers in the doors, but I THINK the tweeters and mids were wired in parallel, with high-pass crossover circuitry attached to the tweeter. I THINK. Are the speakers you're installing full-range coax, or are they components with an outboard crossover? I'm assuming the former, in which case you should remove the connection to the tweeter and keep the connection that went to the mids. Hopefully the mids had no low pass circuitry, or if they did hopefully it was attached to the speaker. Again...its been a while, so your mileage may vary.

That said...I'm not sure why retaining the stock tweeters, while redundant, would cause any real problems. You get no sound at all? Nothing?

jds

 

here is the link to the speakers im trying to install
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...emier/TS-D802P

I get sound from the 6x9 speakers I installed in the back (Pioneer TS-D902P) also from my subwoofer (TS-W3001D4) and the front driver side 6x8 (stock) which i have not taken out yet. When i hooked up the 6x8 pioneer speaker in the front passenger side, no sound is heard at all from that speaker. I tried both of them. So maybe if i disconnect the tweeter i may get sound...hmmm

thanks for the response

 

1) Do you have the bose system?
- If you do there are small amplifiers in the doors that control the speakers (Large mid 9" and tweeter) and also the speakers that are in it now are ran at .5ohms, which is well.. insane. You'd need to run new speaker wire from the head unit to the speakers your installing.

2) If you don't have the bose system?
- The speaker wire running into the doors is almost the same as coming off the back of the radio except for one small difference, the tweeters are wired into them. (Same thing in a new chevy, ford, etc.) This shouldn't affect the speaker at all except for a very small amount of power drain from the 6x8.
- Check your connection to the speaker, and also to the back of the radio, make sure you have the wires hooked up correctly on the rear of the radio, its easily to get some of those wires confused.
- If that doesn't work, check your radio, you might have a speaker output thats bad. If thats the case you could always get a 4 channel amplifier and run your speakers off of that.