[OT]:Need desperate stereo help! SOLVED

[richdeede@scirocco20v.com (Rich Deede)]

Ok found the problem. It was indeed the drive side rear speaker 
shorting out. I unhooked it and all my volume came back. This 
whole time thats all it was. I didn't have to rewire the whole 
thing or anything! Oh well. At least its working now. Thanks for 
all the help everyone.


-Rich
1988 Scirocco 1.8t

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Vince Royer" <vince@performancecarstereo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:29:59 -0700

>There could defenately be a problem with your speakers.  I'd say 
either one
>of your speakers is shorting to ground (contact with metal)  or 
shorting out
>period. A speaker can short out if the voice coil is partly 
melted.  If you
>have a multimeter, use it to check the impedance across all of 
the speaker
>leads. You should read about 4 ohms. The important thing is that 
the other
>speaker of the same size and brand should read the same 
impedance.  To test
>for shorting to ground, put your multimeter on continuity, put 
one wire to
>ground, and touch ALL of the speaker wires with the other wire. 
None of them
>should have continuity to ground.
>
>Sometimes wires get cut into on their way into the door, which 
will
>intermittently short it to ground.  If you've fried one of your 
tweeters, it
>can intermittently short out. Either of these situations would 
cause your
>deck to either shut down under a protection circuit, or melt 
because of the
>lack of a protection circuit.
>
>Good luck and let me know!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Rich Deede
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:40 AM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: [OT]:Need desperate stereo help! Long
>
>
>Im having a stereo issue that is driving me out of my mind. A few
>weeks ago, I lost volume to all speakers in the car. I was still
>getting power to the head unit and everything worked as normal,
>just nothing was coming out of the speakers.
>
>I originally thought it was a bad head unit, so I bought another
>and it seemed to work, however a day later the same thing
>happened, volume cutout but still had full power. So then I
>determined that there was something wrong with the wiring and it
>seemed to be located somewhere within the factory harness. so I
>totally redid the wiring not using the factory harness at all. Ran
>new power and speakers lines. Factory harness is now eliminated.
>So I have a new head unit, new harness going in to the head unit,
>all new speaker wiring, and new power wire going to a new power
>source.
>
>Everything has been working perfectly for the past few weeks now,
>until last night when I turned on the car and once again, no
>volume! It came back on but it turned off again on the way to work
>today. I am so fed up, I dont know what else it can be. The only
>thing I havent replaced are the speakers, can there be a problem
>with them some how thats causing this. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>P.S. This is a standard head unit, 4 speaker setup.
>
>-Rich
>1988 Scirocco 1.8t
>
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