Re: IML: Door speaker access / Vinyl half-top (1993)

["John T. Folden" <nedloftj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Update on both fronts, for those interested..

Speakers: Success!

After a couple hours of hard work and weird bodily contortions, I 
finally have sound coming out of all speakers.  :-)

The good news is that the speakers themselves were fine and sound 
great... but with the sweets come the sour.

It seems the problem was due to a short in the wiring behind the dash. 
After removing the storage bin and glove box area I found myself with a 
horror in the making. Someone, somehow managed to fry (and I do mean 
FRY as in no rubber shielding left at all) the electrical wiring for 
several accessory devices like cigarette lighter, glove box light, etc.
Rather than do something logical like fix it they instead had 
apparently unplugged the connections for all the cigarette lighters in 
the car.  :-/

One wire in particular had melted through the shielding of a speaker 
wire causing it to short out the two speakers in question. I was able 
to correct this, however, I'm afraid the accessory wiring itself will 
require someone more skilled than me so I guess it will get a nice 
visit to the Chrysler dealer for a quote. I don't use the cig lighters 
at all so I'm in no rush for those BUT I'd hate to think there's some 
other issue in that area waiting to happen.

Vinyl half-top:  I think there's no saving the current finish on the 
Landau top. I've tried every option mentioned here, off-list, and at 
detailcity.com and gotten absolutely no improvement at all. I've 
decided that the staining must be some sort of chemical damage. I can 
only guess someone took a very "wrong" cleaner to it somewhere along 
the way. I think in the Spring I'll let a professional re-dye it when I 
have the car repainted.

Thanks everyone for all your help on those issues.  I'm sure I'll have 
some more soon enough.  :-p


John



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