Passenger Door Speaker Short?

There's no grounds involved in the speaker circuits, and none of the speaker wire can be allowed to be grounded. There's roughly six volts on every speaker wire. The grounds involved with the radio and the amplifier affect all of the speakers at the same time.

There's two good suspects to start with. One is broken or frayed wires between the door hinges, and the other is a defective speaker. There's two versions of audio system for your model. The first two diagrams below are with a remote amplifier. The next two are for the radio without a separate amplifier. In both cases there's two speakers in the front doors. If there's a wiring problem, it's going to affect both speakers. Try to listen to the tweeter. If it sounds okay, the door wiring is okay. If both speakers are cutting out, slowly open and close the door while the problem is occurring. If you observe changes, we'll need to discuss the wiring repair.

If it looks like the speaker is suspect, the best approach is to switch them side to side, then watch if the one in the driver's door acts up or if it's still the one in the right door. If the speaker moved to the left door acts up, that's pretty definitive it needs to be replaced.

If you have the radio playing while you're unbolting the suspect speaker, another thing to try is rotating and tipping it. Often the angle it's sitting at causes a defect to act up or clear up. Sometime tipping a speaker causes it to start buzzing or popping too.

Let me know what you find.

Yeah, I probably should have clarified further. Both the tweeter and main speaker are acting up, but also the cigarette lighter accent light flickers. I did observe that perhaps that cluster might have something to do with the problem, as I run my aux connection a lot and I could jostle it around sometimes to get it to work. That could have been a false observation, but I should have added this information in my original post. I'll try the door thing later this evening and give an update. Thanks for the help!

I have seen a bad AUX cable cause the problems you are having. Can you unplug the cable to see if it changes anything? Also, I have seen the internal amplifier inside the radio go out and cause this issue as well. Let us know what happens and please upload pictures or videos of the problem so we can see what's going on.

Yeah, I tried that first, just playing the radio or a CD. I'll try to record a video later showing when I change speaker positions and how it affects the sound. One last thing, I also noticed that when there's too much bass now that only one of the speakers works, it cancels out the sound entirely. Again, I'll try to capture this on video.

It sounds like the radio amplifier is going out. But i would check the connections to the speak as well. Here is a guide to help you test the wiring and the radio wiring diagrams so you can see what wires to test:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-check-wiring

Check out the images (below). Please let us know what happens.