Right hand speakers not working (resolved)

[rickyraccoon]

This really is in a Mercury Mystique I recently got, that had been sitting over a year mostly undriven, but since I was trolling the forums thought I'd add this. I'd looked here and in Contour fora about my right hand speakers not working. Thinking that too much a coincidence, I went ahead and ordered an aftermarket stereo that would fit, with the backup plan to put the original Mystique cassette radio in my Sable (which had a totally dead radio) if the stock stereo wasn't the culprit after all. Well speakers still totally dead. Took the door panel off the front passenger, took the speaker out, visually looked good. Was pretty frustrated at this point so I thought well I've nothing to lose by abusing it, grabbed a 9-volt transistor battery and placed the terminals across the speaker terminals. Couldn't find my VOM and I was impatient. Boom, coil pulled way in. Reversed it, boom, coil came way out. Put it back in to start tracing the wires and voila! Speaker worked. Must have been bad connection. Got the back door panel off and wiggled the connection. A little sound, not much. Okay this is getting weird. Took the speaker out, grabbed that battery... boom reverse boom. Put it back in. Worked. You wouldn't think, that merely from sitting a year the cones in them thangs would seize up, but apparently they did? And the 9v battery provided the current needed to free them up? So far they sound okay. Go figure. Thought I'd share this very odd fix for 'blown' speakers....