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you can take a 9v batt and tap it to your speaker wire. Hold one wire to a terminal on the 9v and tap the other on and off the opposite terminal if the speaker pulls in wrong polarity if the speaker pushes out its correct. Then just make note of which one was on which terminal of 9v and your good to go

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Q: How can you determine the positive and negative terminals on a car speakers?
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