Speaker stops working intermittantly

[Levo]

The speaker in the right door (52 plate) has been cutting off every now and again - I found that a quick angry punch gets it working again. I took out the speaker thinking it was a loose wire but everything seemed solid enough, has anyone any ideas what it could be?

Cheers,
Mike.

 

[Djw John]

It may be the actual connector or it could be shorting out somewhere along the line.

 

[Levo]

Will have to check the connector again to make sure then, may just solder it on to make double-sure.

 

[Pete]

Id say knackered speaker (internal dodgy connection).

 

[Djw John]

Quote: Originally posted by Pete_172 on 15 July 2004


Id say knackered speaker (internal dodgy connection).

If its standard and never been touched this could well be it

 

[Levo]

Yes, it is a standard speaker and today was the first time Id touched it - I have some old crappy speakers in the shed, I will temporarily hook one of them up to see if that solves the problem.

Cheers guys,
Mike.

 

[Monkey45]

My moneys on shorting. I had this with phono cables from an amp that were being cut by the rear seat fixings in my old AX.

 

[dangermouse_se]

Swap the speakers left to right and see if the problem moves with the speaker.

 

[Deeg]

It might be earthing, I had / have this problem with a set of after market speakers, cos they were installed by a muppet.

Some part of the speaker touches the metal and cuts out (from what i was told). When you hit it, which I used to do to, but mine was passeneger side, so got some people very worried on the motorway, it knocks it back in place.