Purple & Pink door speaker wiring.... DS speaker

[GregLCA]

Just a quick sanity check:

I pulled the drivers side door panel last night and the wiring for the upper tweeter and lower door speaker are a pair of purple and pink wires. From what I've read, it sounds like they are just spliced together in the door panel harness. I'm assuming it's parallel wiring (purple to purple, pink to pink)?

This seems to make sense, since the door speaker (JBL) is labelled as a 2ohm speaker, and the tweeter probably is too? Wiring them in parallel would take a 4ohm amp load and convert it to 2ohms per door speaker.

From the photos I've seen, it looks like most people just disconnect the upper (pink & purple) harness completely and just leave it hanging there, then run the factory lower harness to the replacement crossover....which then sends new wiring to the upper and lower speakers.

Have I interpreted that correctly?


-G

 

[Astralplane]

Download the 2004 factory manual found on this site.
In the electrical wiring section (page 327 w/ nav, page 332 w/o nav) you will see the speaker wiring diagram.

 

[GregLCA]

Download the 2004 factory manual found on this site.
In the electrical wiring section (page 327 w/ nav, page 332 w/o nav) you will see the speaker wiring diagram.

Indeed! Thanks!....



Here are a few more photos of the effort, for those who are interested in watching YET ANOTHER stereo upgrade thread!

14 Year-Old JBL Speaker Foam....



2 Ohm Midrange (and presumably a 2 Ohm tweeter up in the pillar too!)




Door Panel removed, plastic removed, black "gorilla snot" partially removed!




And the back of the factory door panel... not something I've seen too many photos of around here.






Getting ready for some Dynamat Xtreme (inside and outside panels), a small rework of the factory speaker cage to accommodate my new JL Audio separates...

With my newfound knowledge about the purple/pink wiring, I can now unplug and ignore the upper harness and run fresh wiring from my new passive crossovers.


-G