Please help! I'm getting ready to put some Infinity speakers in my car (base stereo) this weekend, and I've done plenty of searching for the wire polarity. Here's what I've come up with for the front doors:

Non-Bose system, US model:

"Door left + R (red?) - W (white?) tweeter same

"Door right + Y/R (yellow/red?) - Y/R (yellow/red?) tweeter same"

As someone else noted previously, the right door information is ambiguous. It says Y/R for both positive and negative wires. Does anyone have the correct information?

Now for the rear doors:

"left rear + is purple and – is pink"

"right rear + is white/blue and - is black/blue"

Clear enough, but then I found this statement in another thread: “On the (right) side the white wire is ground, not black.” So which is correct? Is the negative wire white or black on the right side rear speaker?

And if no one knows the answer, is there a simple volt meter test? (Last time I tried this in a Miata, both postive and negative leads seemed to be live on my meter.) Thanks for the help!

 

I'm pretty sure I created some of that confusion, so here is my second run at it -

front left = red+ white-
front right = black/white+ red/yellow-
(this is the tweeters, the main door speakers have no color code,
they are polarized by the connector, nearest to the 'grip' is negative.)

rear left = violet+ pink-
rear right = white/blue+ black/blue-
(tweeters same colors.)

centre tweet = blue/black+ green/yellow-

This is for the Bose system, my diagram doesn't have the 'base', so if you get in there and see Orange wires or something, you are on your own! :o

S

 

Thanks, mon. And that's a good idea: Checking where the wires are relative to the grips may be a good way for me to confirm each one.

 

Cool; thanks. I guess my last lingering doubt concerns whether the negative wire is white or black on the right side rear speaker. I'll use this test to answer it.