HELP! I changed a speaker while the car was running and now I hear nothing!

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by dccurrent

Oh man I think I really screwed up. I changed the front two speakers, and while I was testing them out (with the car running so the battery didn't drain) I heard an annoying rattle from the right speaker. I determined that it was most likely the speaker itself, so I decided to swap it with another to make sure.


So I turned off the stereo, and with the car running, I switched it out for another speaker. I then turned on the stereo, and all I hear is a light "pop" sound from that right speaker and no sound at all! Complete silence no matter what the source. The head unit does everything as before only I can't hear a thing! Does anyone know what happened? What's the extent of the damage if any?

You say you had the HU powered off while swapping the speaker. If the HU was off, even if the car was on, you wouldn't hurt the HU. I would double check the speaker connections and make sure you don't have one of the tabs shorting to something.

[dccurrent]

Originally Posted by CTScott

You say you had the HU powered off while swapping the speaker. If the HU was off, even if the car was on, you wouldn't hurt the HU. I would double check the speaker connections and make sure you don't have one of the tabs shorting to something.

Would a short on the speaker I swapped cause the rest of them to not function as well? I am going to disconnect it and see what happens before I go ahead and buy another HU. I can't imagine what the connectors could have possibly touched to cause the short but I sure hope you're right.

[dccurrent]

Well I went ahead and disconnected the speaker and the stereo worked great! I then reattached the speaker and the stereo is now back to normal. Something must have thrown it out of whack but now that I disconnected and reconnected the speaker it's back to normal. Thanks everyone for the help!