Installed 2 new speakers, having troubles.

[Red03Mustang]

I installed two new speakers in the front. The mach speakers weren't handling the bass as well as I liked, so I left everything else stock and installed two Pioneer woofers, 6x8, that total 220 watts.

Now, for some reason, anytime I get any bass NEAR loud, the speakers make a 'pop' sound, and stop working completly for a few seconds. Eventually they will come back, and sometimes they 'pop' back in.

I don't know a lot about speakers and stuff, so if anybody knows what might be causing this problem, any help would be appreciated. Could it be I wired something wrong? I took the wire that came with the speakers, spliced it together with the stock wires, and wrapped them up real well with electrical tape. I put the white and black wires together, but there was another color (maybe purple and black?) that I just put with the straight 'white' wire.

For all I know, I put speakers in that are the same wattage as the mach front woofers were already. I just thought I'd give it a shot since I was getting really warbly/blatty sounding bass instead of powerful, smooth bass.

If anyone know what these symptoms sound like, let me know. Thanks!

 

[Red03Mustang]

Just a bump.

Bump.

 

[explicit]

could you explain to me better how you wired these.

 

[Red03Mustang]

well, here's how I wired them.

Well, I didn't wire them expertly, I'll say that much.

The two pioneer speakers came with wiring. It was two little short wires, each eith a white/black coating and a white coating. I matched up the white/black to the mustang's white/black, and hooked the white to the other color (I don't remember what it was).

Then I spliced them together by wrapping them and then putting electrical tape over them. I made sure they were very well covered and protected.

And now, when I turn up the volume, any bass near a loud level makes them both go 'pop' and then magically, no more bass. About 5 - 10 seconds later, they'll start playing again until the next loud bass sound, whatever it may be.

If you need anymore info, let me know.

 

[n0v8or]

Your car must have the factory Mach460 system. To discourage improvements by other than a Dealer, Ford designed the system with non-standard amp and speaker impedances. You speakers are probably overloading the amp, which then goes into self-protection mode (explains the "pop" as they are turned off).

The amp is designed to self-reset, which is why the sound comes back after a few seconds.

Another possibility is that one terminal of the speakers is grounded (connected to the frame). Most amps today are designed to drive a load that connects only across the output terminals, and cannot be grounded.

 

[Mossberg]

^yep that's exactly what it is. I just yanked out the whole mach system because of Fords "upgrade sabotages".

 

[Red03Mustang]

So in other words, those speakers I got are pretty much worthless? That sucks. At least I didn't spend much on them.

So, is i possible to upgrade speakers in the front at all then if Ford is so anti-upgrade?