stereo install help

[ScottyBoy]

If you have ANY of the speaker wires crossed, or grounded out, then it will shut off ALL of the speakers. Check all your speaker connection very carefully. If you have a multimeter, check to see if any are grounded out.

 

[rsmith85]

Okay... It still isn't working. I don't know if you guys have the same but I have two harnesses in the back of the stock unit. Further up those harnesses is another harness with 4 wires. That also has a pink wire. I wired the remote to that pink *4 wire harness* and also the harness that attaches to the stock unit... Nothing.... I didn't wire each at the same time, each was done separately.

Is there something I'm missing, I don't know what the hell else to do besides pay an audio place way too much money to figure it out.

 

[MASS-HOE'Z71]

So the problem is still that only the aftermarket amp is turning on, while the aftermarket headunit is not coming on with the ignition on 12v? if you have a bit of 16-18 awg wiring and some patience, rip out the knee bolster and dash clip and behind the knee bolster bracket should be atleast 2 orange wires, about 16 awg. disconnect batt, gently remove a tiny bit of the insulation from either, ( i used the one deeper in the dash, but both are an ignition on 12v,), just enough to temporarily attach a jumper wire , run that to the remote on wire coming out of the aftermarket wiring harness, this should show if its the deck or something more serious.
wouldnt hurt to double check with a volt meter (set to 40) to make sure your orange wires are working properly by probing the red voltmeter lead to the orange connection of the wire and the steel bracket behind the knee bolster provides a solid enough ground, and turn the ign to acc and you should get around 12 with it on and 0 with it off

 

[rsmith85]

the aftermarket head unit powers up, and everything works. I just get no sound from the speakers around the normal volume, I have to max the volume to get some faint sound coming from the speakers. I checked all the fuses, all fine, I even replaced them to make sure.

I have used a voltmeter to check to make sure everything is getting power, which it is. I don't know why it is not activating the amp so the speakers get louder.

 

[MASS-HOE'Z71]

Well thats just strange, it would make atleast a little sense if you had a factory amp which probably wouldnt cooperate with an aftermarket hu but speaker wires basically just run from the speakers to the hu without much interuption. And without any fuses blown and a working hu, it might be time to grab a spool of some good speaker wire and a cable snake Nd by pass the factory speaker wiring just to ensure no issues, wouldnt be a bad time to replace the speakers if you were planning on it.
Maybe not what you wanted to hear but a morning of wiring isnt to bad to ensure you wont have future problems

 

[rsmith85]

yea this was always going to be my end all, but I was trying to keep everything together and fix the issue. Thanks for all the help, it is appreciated, looks like I will be running some speaker wires.

 

[rsmith85]

Update: After all the research saying that the 02 did not have an external factory amp or a stock sub. Mine has both. I never noticed it til I would loading something in the back, but there is the stock sub sitting on the left hand side.

I haven't tried anything else with the system since my last post. Would the stock sub have anything to do with the aftermarket HU having to be maxed to get little sound into the speakers?

 

[97transam]

You MUST hook up the remote to the pink wire on the flat harness. If you dont, no sound.

Use your blue remote turn-on wire from the deck and connect it to the pink wire on the smaller factory secondary harness.

it's the pink wire that turns on the fact.amp not orange

Thanks so much for taking the time to post this very important piece of info. Was in the process of installing a new JVC headunit and ran into the "unit turns on but no sound" issue. Jumpered the blue wire for "pwr antenna" to the now "unused" flat secondary connector's pink wire and, voila!, sound!!!
Much thanks, , ron