Lets have a look at this Pontiac G5 and figure out why the key dinger does not ding and the headlight on warning dinger has lost its charm... This is a fairly common problem with GM's in general so it may help you fix yours.
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The problem is that water leaks in past that inner door plastic seal. The black sealant lifts away from the door and water passes through. My g5 had the same thing. Also the trunk and rear doors used to fill with an ocean of sloshing water at every rainfall. When the buzzer wouldn’t work I locked my keys in the car 12 times. I developed a way to break into the car with a hardcover book and a coat hanger. Ended up drilling holes at the bottom of all the doors and trunk to drain the water…ridiculous gm quality. I got rid of that car (to the scrapper).
Turned it up too loud and burned up the speakers!
Good diag. I would want to know what caused BOTH front speakers to blow, and if they blew at the same time…I've listened to a lot of loud music in my time, and never blown one to the point where it is silent…weird…
Front component speakers are typically 4 ohm and 4 ohm wired together to achieve a 2 ohm load or 8 & 8 wired together to achieve a 4 ohm load! In this case if they are components and if they are still wired together it would read roughly around 2 ohm so in this case, again if components, it should read a total of 4 ohm with the woofer and tweeter together! But just the woofer being tested it should read something near 2 ohm
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You should have speaker in the shop for stop over charge for your tv dude
JUNK SPEAKERS! GM COST CUTTERS! THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
It depends on the speaker, they come in a 4,6 or 8 ohm resistance. The lower the resistance the more power hungry it is (such as on a amp in aftermarket applications) but honestly since a speaker says it's a certain ohm doesn't mean it's always that, a speaker resistance can go all the way up to 45 ohms. It's really all over the place depending on what hertz it's playing at and other variables that come into play.
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And here I was hoping to see some new aftermarket speakers goin in haha you are 100% a man of your word. I am an aftermarket installer in Melbourne Australia and I will tell you that I personally always install something as though I’m the guy that has to fix it later mate. The stuff you have removed in previous vids makes people like myself look like an asshole and there’s nothing I hate more than that. Thanks for bein such a legend and helping us with your amazing technique. I have learned so much from your vids especially patience when installing and diag.
Hi. Same thing here… No dingers. Lol. No volume control. biggest problem with GM is there made in Mexico… that quality went down and so as you slam the doors back and forth the wires break.
Speakers are rated at impedance, not resistance. Impedance pertains to the average ability to pass analog sinusoidal waveforms.
You do nice work and I appreciate your intuitive attacks on electronic problems. But perhaps you don't fully understand the difference between resistance and impedance. A really good choke coil (say for a power supply) should have low DC resistance but high AC impedance. Same with high power loudspeakers. Low DC resistance but say 4 or 8 ohms of impedance at audio frequencies. The formula for impedance of a coil is
XL = 6.28 x f x L
where
XL is the inductive reactance in ohms,
f is the frequency in Hertz, and
L is the inductance in Henrys.
When in series, a resistance and an inductive reactance are added at right angles, so 1 ohm of resistance and 1 ohm of inductive reactance ("XL") give 1.414 ohms of impedance. We can get into phase angles later.
I always keep an old speaker sitting here with some wires on them with clips that I can hook up to test if a speaker is bad.
Very good diagnosis, very nice repair. GREAT VIDEO!
my radio an speaker still work in my corvairs an my 56 chevy ,,,,new cars will never last
Customer probably blew the speakers with too much volume. Easy to do to burn out the voice coil in the speaker.
Let me start off with as a southern boy you are my new favorite northerner! I've been working on cars and trucks my whole life and your videos are very informative and entertaining. Keep it up!
Thanks for the video.
I wish my dinger would break its annoying. I do like my speakers though.
Got same problem in my 09 Malibu
Resistance is a concept used for DC (direct currents) whereas impedance is the AC (alternating current) equivalent.
your tester is using DC. so it will not reflect the correct impedance. just so you know.
You forgot to replace the other side
I have the exact same problem on an 08 Cobalt. Thanks for the fix info.
Thanks Eric, you told me what my problem is with my 010 cobalt.
the ohms rating is the load to an alternating current. it's based on inductance and frequency. to A DC ohm meter, the coil is just a bunch of wire. that's why you're not getting the residence you thought you would.
thanks for the video I have the same problem, both speakers also.
your daughter is so cute 🙂
Very good video
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Someone else may have already said it, but speakers have 9 Ohms of Impedance (resistance at the alternating type of current they see for an audio signal). For DC it will almost always be 0 ohms.
Wow, what crap speakers. I have 10 vehicles all over 10 years old and not one speaker fail ever. Maybe she was always playing them with the bass turned up. Weird.
Damn, you make it look like you know what you're doing….lol
Very odd to see 0 ohms on a good speaker… Somethin' ain't right there… Keep in mind that what's printed/spec'd on the speaker is the impedance, rather than the resistance. The DC resistance you're measuring with your scope will always be below the rated impedance of the speaker, except in cases where you're measuring multiple drivers on one connection (Coaxial type vehicle speakers and the like). 🙂
Great video! Dunno why GMs are so prone to this issue, but I see it more often than I'd like to.
nice video just to let you know car speaker are 4ohm house speakers are 8ohm and to do a quick test on the speaker u can touch a 9 volt battery to both terminals quickly and the speaker should move and make a light thud depending on polarity the speaker will go in or out
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The reason your didn't get a 4 ohm reading when measuring the new speaker is that audio components are reactive devices. They have a resistance, but it is a reactive resistance and can not be measured with a standard meter. You need to use a reactance meter to measure the resistance on reactive components.If you made your measurement with a reactive meter, you would have gotten a reading of 4 ohm (typically for car audio) or 8 ohms.Same thing when measure inductors.
doesn't matter what you drive, as time goes by and we change parts, our cars are slowly turning Chinese.
thanks for sharing Eric. Looks like you could use some R&R..make sure to take care of you first..we can wait.
Pretty much all speakers are 2 to 16 ohm. Car speakers are pretty much all 2 to 4 ohm with a DC resistance in the 0.8 to 4.5 range.
Good job.
Had the same problem on my Lucerne, but both fronts blew. I took that opportunity to put some after market speakers in there.
Did they ever give the update on the scope of the Autel? Great video keep them coming?
My 02 Le Sabre had the passenger side front door with no window, mirror or lock control.Turned out to be a module in the door was bad.Wrecking yard 6 bucks
Bingbingbingbingbing – kind of like the Muppet's Beaker…
job well done
Grandma broke the stereo listening to mega Death….