new door panels! Tweeters connect differently?

[sully42]

Ok so my car use to be a tan interior. The person that I bought it from converted everything to black, except the door panels. I came across a set of black ones in decent shape for a good price so i bought them. Just now I went to swap them, and the connections on the tweeter and supper tweeter are different.
The ones on the old door panels have a wire coming out of them that goes to a connector. The new door panels have no wires coming out of the tweeters, but have a plug built into them.
What do I have to do to swap these door panels and have everything work as it should?

[MParallel]

You can just swap the speakers can't you? Since you have a black interior now?

Check: do the one with the wire coming out have a metal bracket? and the ones with the plug a plastic ring to attach them to the doorcards?

That'll be the difference then. Old vs new style speakers. In that case you can't swap them neither iirc.

[sully42]

yeah old ones have a bracket, the new ones do not.

I am sure i can rig something up in one way or another. I am just trying to find a proper solution.

[flyfishvt]

Seems pretty simple. Just go to an auto parts store and get a couple male and female connectors of some kind and splice them between the new speakers and your wire harness.

[sully42]

Here is what the old ones are like
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn356/odogedogg/100_6201.jpg

And the new ones.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn356/odogedogg/100_6202.jpg
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn356/odogedogg/100_6203.jpg

The new ones have small plugs built into the tweeter with 3 pins. the old ones only have 2 pins on the wire connectors.

[MParallel]

Yeah you see that a lot. Old style plugs with the large pins, later replaced with connectors with tiny pins.

Same for the heated washer jets and much more.

[sully42]

I just got back from a junk yard, looking for the new style connectors to try and swap them over.
I pull in and see a guy with an e36 changing his hood in the lot. So this got me excited, I knew there had to be one in there. I found it, It was still intact, minus the hood and rad. Even had the door panels with the same tweeters my new ones have. But someone cut the wires that I need.

Thats just my luck.

[93BMWE36]

Purchase some new RF P1 tweeters they fit perfect around the hole and sound better too. And you can just re-wire it for an upgrade. I did new tweeters and midrange on the door panels with RF

[sully42]

Purchase some new RF P1 tweeters they fit perfect around the hole and sound better too. And you can just re-wire it for an upgrade. I did new tweeters and midrange on the door panels with RF
That was my plan B

But I had some good luck today, I went to another junkyard and got them today.
All it cost was $4.21 for all the wires, $2 to get into the junk yard, $2.50 in tolls, $15 in gas, and $2.50 for a chili cheese dog.

Can anyone tell me what wires are posative and what wires are negative? most importantly the ones on the tweeters? or of a way to test for it? I can probably test the ones on the car.
Thanks

[MParallel]

Don't know your cars-side wiring, but on it should be

yellow/brown and yellow/red on the left side, brown being earth, red +12v.

Blue/brown and blue/red on the right side of the car.

[sully42]

Don't know your cars-side wiring, but on it should be

yellow/brown and yellow/red on the left side, brown being earth, red +12v.

Blue/brown and blue/red on the right side of the car.

thanks, i will have to bust out the multimeter and check out the cars wire.