Front door speakers don't work

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Rauskiq

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I have a 2014 Ram 1500. It has the 8.4 nav unit with the factory amplified Alpine system. the front door speakers don't work. The dash tweeters work perfectly. The rears and sub work perfect. Anyone else ever run into this problem?
 

RonABQ

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Ditto same issue with my 2015 1500 Laramie Alpine system. Noticed it after having the sub unplugged for a week while doing rear window slider work. Had truck in ACC mode to exercise pwr window so stereo was powered up w/out sub connected too. Plugged sub back in & sound system had tinny sound. No changes made to UConnect audio settings & old settings confirmed same as before sub disconnection. Tshooting so far: adjust balance to isolate each speaker, amp fuse F71 good, soft reset of UConnect system (push & hold Volume/Mute & Tune/Browse knobs in simultaneously 12+sec) done successfully - front door speakers both silent still. Overall sound did seem a little fuller post soft reset but both speakers still dead. I welcome input. Next steps: UConnect hard reboot (disconnect battery for several hours), swap speaker with known good speaker ( I have a spare dash speaker from 2018 upgrade).
 
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RonABQ

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Fixed it! Both speakers were dead. Sequentially pulled the door panels and swapped each speaker with known good spare speaker. It worked! Plugged bad speaker back in - it didn’t work. For grins did another easy test - wired a 1.5vdc AA/AAA battery across the +/- posts. Heard static tone on good speaker, nothing from dead speaker. New JBL 521 speakers from Crutchfield (to sonically match 3 dash & rear doors all JBL from 2018 upgrade) installed and music to my ears! Siri’s voice is also back.
 
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