Help: Wiring colours

[MrShadow]

G'Day,
Can anybody tell me what the positive and negative wire colours are for the front speakers in a 96 Hardtop?

And getting the door trim off is just a couple of screws, nothing tricky, or difficult, if I'm remembering correctly.

Thanks
Gareth

[Trav]

usually the black one is the negative. easiest way is if you have a multimeter to measure betwwen the end of the wire and an earth point on the car. The short circuit will be ther reference line...
i did have mine off the other day, but was not really interested in the wiring...this time...

Good luck...

BTW reference in this case is ground or negative

[MrShadow]

Yeah, black is normally ground, but only when they use standard colours!! My back ones were multi-coloured, and green/black turned out to be positive! Thanks, I'll give that a try. I was just going to hook them up, and see if they worked...

[Trav]

yeah - generally the closer to black is usually ground. Black/white Trace is another common.

Anyhing with a couloured trace is normally not groud. I always use my multimeter (which is always in the car too - ain't that right Dan...). Saves you bowing something you didn't want to.

[MrShadow]

SO, the wire with the lowest resistance (ie short circuit) will the ground (negative) line, right?

[Dogo]

the wiring diagram available for download somewhere says :

L Door : +ve = V/W -ve = L/O

R Door : +ve = Y/R -ve = W/R

the link is on the forum somewhere, i'll try and find the link ....

[Dogo]

got it :

http://hrdwrbob.net/rupewrecht/wiring_all.zip

the file is abt 6mb , and the stereo is image 13.

U can thank rupewrecht for scanning and uploading those :D

[MrShadow]

Dogo ==> Thank you for posting the link. Much appreciated.

Dan ==> Thanks for uploading!