The truck is all factory. The radio is the factory head unit along with the factory speakers and wiring etc. The radio always powers on so it shows the clock which is right but it always goes back to station 98.1 and it loses any of the presets I just set every single time I shut off the truck and start it again regardless if there will be any sound. Sometimes the radio would work and sometimes it wouldn't, it was anyone's guess, but every time when the radio would produce sound it only comes out of the one passenger door speaker. I can understand if the driver side door speaker is blown or messed up from the rain but there are little speakers (in the cab panel on both sides where the back windows would be if it were a four-door) that I don't see how they could be messed up so i'm not sure why i'm only getting sound out of the one speaker. I finally pulled the driver side door panel off and found that someone had cut the wires to the door lock actuator (which is broken but apparently doesn't affect my ability to open the door with the key since I do it and have no problem). I got those wires back together (and moved the little piece side to side while testing for the radio) and it made no difference with the radio-still the same thing sometimes it would work sometimes it wouldn't, nothing I did made a difference. Using a multi-meter I tested for power in those wires and the driver side door speaker wires. All seems good. So I took the door speaker out and tested it for impedance-it should be 4 ohms and it would jump around but finally settle around 3.3 ohms. I was in a rush so I didn't connect the speaker back for half the day and for that entire half a day I had radio every single time I started the truck. To test this theory-truck off, I plugged the speaker back into the door and turned the key to the on position. Nothing. Turned the truck on, so engine running. Still nothing. Shut off the truck completely, unplug speaker and turn key to on position and boom I have sound! Of course it was still only out of the one speaker in the passenger door but it proved my theory that when the driver side door speaker is plugged in the radio only works when it wants to and still only out of the one speaker in the passenger door. So I took what I know to be a good speaker and hooked it up to the driver's door, ran the same tests and got the same results so I don't understand why this is happening whether or not the speaker is good. Help? I'm so lost and tired of singing to myself.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 AT 11:30 AM
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