Car Stereos: 2002 Jeep Liberty Speaker Blown, Can I just cut the wire?, front door speaker, radio harness

Question
Brian,

I have a 2002 Jeep Liberty Limited with a 6-speaker OEM Infinity premium audio system. It has two tweeters in the dash, two speakers in the front doors, and two speakers in the rear.  My left front door speaker is blown. For a quick fix, can I just snip the wire headed to that speaker and render it useless until I replace the speaker?

Will this have any negative impacts on the factory amp mounted behind it? If not, I can access the wiring headed to the door through the hinge area... so which wire should I snip.

Thanks so so much...
-Dillon

Answer
Hi Dillon,

The factory amplifier mounted to each front door speaker runs all three speakers on that side--front door, rear door and dash.  You can cut the front left signal wires running to the amplifier, and it won't harm anything; but you'll lose sound in both the door speaker and the dash tweeter on that side.  If you want to do this, I'd recommend cutting the wires at the back of the head unit rather than trying to find them in the door boot.  The two wires in the radio harness are dark green, and brown with a red stripe.

The only way to disable the front door speaker without affecting the dash tweeter would be to disconnect the wires right at the speaker.  

Whether you cut the wires or disconnect them, make sure the bare ends can't contact each other, or any metal part of the vehicle.  

Hope this helps!

Brian