I searched with no luck... the rear speaker wires on my car are as follows: driver's side both yellow one with a black stripe other with a red stripe... passenger side has one solid green and one solid purple... does anyone know which is pos. and which is neg.?
PLEASE HELP! I'm going crazy over here!

 

this is hard to explain but if you disconect the harness from the speaker and look at it one side will have that litle "prong" piece the wire that goes into that side is the positive wire

 

I remember having this problem. I took the black-striped one to be negative, then I looked at the same spot on the other speaker (remember both speakers are identical). So use the black-striped one on one side and then find the matching one on the other side of the car that hooks up to the same terminal on the other speaker.

Oh yeah, at the very least doing both the same way will insure the rears are in phase with each other. If the car is quiet after taking my advice, then I'm obviously just wrong on the black wire... reverse both and you'll be all set.
-N

 

Crap, I cut the harness/clip off and tossed them. I'll have to go see if I can recover them from the trash can at my dad's house. Thanx for the info guys!

 

i rec paying the $20 for the plug in harness for speakers for crutchfield much better then cutting wires

 

Well I'm not hooking speakers to the factory wires, they are going into my Alpine 4 channel amp (high power input) which has a pre-out that will go into my EQ (with RCA) that goes back to the amp (with RCA) that will power all new Alpine speakers I just installed on Fri. (with all new speaker wire). Sounds a bit complicated, eh?

 

Well, then do trial and error unless you know another Lancer you can look at. Just hook up the black wire to the same post on each speaker and if it's right, it'll sound right. If it's wrong, it'll be very quiet. So it it's quiet, swap them.
-N