There is no sound coming from the upper speakers in both front doors. All the other speakers are working.

Any thoughts as to how best to go about diagnosis?

 

Pull the door door card. Remove suspect speaker. Hook up a known to be good speaker to the wires. If there is sound, the speakers themselves are suspect. If there is no sound, test wiring back to the amplifier.

 

I've had a couple of those fail and used to grab them at junkyards when possible. I suspect you're in the same boat, given that everything else works..

 

Thank you both. That makes sense.

Are the OEM’s the only speakers that fit in that location!

Also, I pulled out the speaker assembly in the tailgate, and both speakers are completely shot. Do you know of any non-OEM speakers that will fit without adaptation, ie just plug and play?

 

Many standard 6" subs will fit the tail door.

 

Ok, I bought some replacement speakers for the rear door. They are the same diameter as the original speakers, but the magnets are bigger and will not fit in the metal cutout in the door without modification. They fit fine in the plastic housing, but it is in the back where some change needs to be made.

My friend looked at this and said that the metal cutout needs to be enlarged by a small amount.

Question: What is the best way to go about this?

His first inclination was to use a saws-all, but the length of the blade means that it would hard to control the cut. He thinks he might be able to shorten the saws-all blade to give him more control.

Are there other, perhaps better, ways to get this done?

 

it's been some time, but if i recall correctly, i bought a speaker repair kit off Amazon. cut out the old speaker paper cone and glued in the new ones.

 

Sawzall no, jigsaw yes. Sawzall is too crazy strong for it to be a great tool choice for this work.

 

hammer

 

You mean just bang it out until the opening is large enough?