Installing new rear speakers in 2001 Alero

[PapiChullo]

My rear speakers blew out in the car and I bought new ones to replace them. Figured it wouldn't be hard to install the new ones, but ran into a problem. How do I wire the new speakers into the car? Do I have to connect them to the black connector piece somehow, or do I have to cut one of the wires and splice them together?

I've seen a couple sites that say connect to the negative and positive wires, but the colors they say are different from mine. On the left, I have 4 wires (Blue, Yellow, White & Green) going into the connector, while the right one has Red, Blue, Green and Purple.

Any help is appreciated. A step-by-step guide would be great as well.

[Musicmaster6921]

Originally Posted by PapiChullo

My rear speakers blew out in the car and I bought new ones to replace them. Figured it wouldn't be hard to install the new ones, but ran into a problem. How do I wire the new speakers into the car? Do I have to connect them to the black connector piece somehow, or do I have to cut one of the wires and splice them together?

I've seen a couple sites that say connect to the negative and positive wires, but the colors they say are different from mine. On the left, I have 4 wires (Blue, Yellow, White & Green) going into the connector, while the right one has Red, Blue, Green and Purple.

Any help is appreciated. A step-by-step guide would be great as well.

hey opn installing new rear speakers: you can go about it a couple of way first and easiest is to just spend the extra 10-15 bucks and buy converter harnesses at any audio store they are pretty much a plug and play affiar. second is to splice into the wires and wire up the speakers with butt connectors, if this is the method you choose heres what to do, cut the wires about and inch behind the black connectors and strip the wire about a half an inch back, then take some extra wire strip both ends about half an inch (any gauge will technicaly work but i would suggest using at least 18 gauge prefferably 16 gauge also use at least 6 inches of wire it makes the intall much easier) use two female speaker connectors and attach them to the extra wire on one end now connect the other end of the wires with some butt connectors to the factory wire you have already striped, and thats pretty much it, do the same for the other side test it all by turning the car on and putting some music on and then reassemble. thats it thats all it takes. hope this helps.