will the subs work if they are connected improperly? Mine are all plugged up and tucked away at this point. I tried seeing which wires pushed positive and neg with a voltometer but when I plugged it up, it didn't seem to push much sound that way.

Now I see that positive terminals on the stock speaker are next to each other (i guess) and the replacement speakers are plus and minus next to each other. Has anyone else discovered that you need to re arrange the wiring in order to get the subs powered properly?

Never mind, these are colored wires coming from the AMP. The wires we are asking about are coming from the connectors that plug up to the stock wiring.