I reviewed some posts about speakers, but did not find a clear answer. I am replacing my front speakers and the wires have on the right side a wire w/black stripe and a wire w/purple (or blue) stripe, which is negative?

 

normally black it shouldn't hurt them if you just quick touch them on that way and see if they work but im pretty sure its black from when i did mine.

 

i put new speakers in mine a while back and was pretty confused too. speakers will work even if the wires are mixed up, but its not a good thing if you do it that way obviously. i researched for an hour trying to find which one was posative and negative. i finally found a site that had them all listed but cant find it now. the wire with the black stripe on the right front speaker is the negative one. so i pulled the plugs out the same way on all four speakers (i have an ext cab) and wired them all the same way as the right front so i wouldnt mix them up.

it scared me for a while because i didnt really think about it until i was all done and didnt want to have to pull the door panels and rear panels back off and take the speakers all back outjust to switch the wires again...i got lucky i guess

 

http://www.modifiedlife.com/request-...iring-diagram/

right hand side under the search bar. scroll down and find your year dakota since you didn't specify because i don't know if it matters. Good luck

 

Ok the link was giving me the wrong color scheme, so I bought a Chilton's. Hooked up my rear speakers and now only right rear will work. Does anybody know what could be wrong and if the Chilton's is right (all colors that were listed are what I found in the doors)? I am stumped and can't listen to my stereo, well I can but it sucks.

 

I read a couple posts a while back and there seemed to be a guy that was real good with audio. Can someone let him no about this thread or give me his user name so I can PM him?

 

Even if you hooked them up backwards or opposite of each other you should still get sound from both speakers. It just may not sound right if one speaker is hooked up correctly and the other is not. I would say you either have a bad speaker or the radio lost a channel. I would pull the speaker that isn't working and connect it to a known working output to test it. Make sure your wires on the non working side aren't grounded out on something either.

 

I am going to look at it today. The crazy thing is 3 of them won't work and all 4 are new.

 

Oh yeah and the front ones worked fine until I put the rears in. Are these wired in series or something that would cause 1 speaker in the rearto keep the front ones from working?

 

OK your "Friendly Neighborhood Retard"[sm=smarty.gif] messed up a bunch of connections. Pulled all the door panels rewired and speakers are fine now.

Thanks for all the input guys.