Need Help Asap!!!

[jtm087]

Im having trouble with my head unit, the speakers wont play sounds. I hooked all of the wires in the wiring harness up correctly, I even got a new harness thinking that would be the problem. I know it is not the speakers themselves or the factory wiring because the speakers work fine with the factory radio. I have tried two different cd players both which work fine in other cars. Another thing is when I hook up my rca's and remote the sub will work but not the speakers. I made sure everything was balanced and faded correctly. The front right speaker makes a low popping noise when the head unit is turned on and off which my last head unit used to do, and now I have no clue what the problem is.

 

[inh]

did you connect both blue wires? i think they are for the power antenna
connect them (cant remember if its to gorund or +12v) and it should work. i had the same issues

 

[skiboy214]

I'm willing to bet that your remote turn on isnt connected right. It is the blue wire. I had this problem although I dont have any subwoofer hooked up. But the problem turned out to be the remote turn on wire.

 

[jtm087]

Yea I used to have that problem too, and that was one of the 1st things I cheked, no luck on that either, dont know what to do!

 

[inh]

hmm there are two blu wires. did you connect both of them?

 

[jtm087]

well I connected the blue, blue/whites wires with the blue/white from the head unit wire harness, and tried each seperatetly also no luck....I figured if the speakers make the popping noise when turning off and on shouldn't they be connected right?

 

[inh]

hmm odd. i know that each of the blue wires need to be conected together.. Wish i knew what else the problem could be :/

 

[jeephater#1]

does your truck have a stock amp in it if so you need a remote to it then you will get sound or just rewire the system. but if you do that make sure to change all speakers stockers for the premium radio ran off .8 ohms try a aftermarket deck at 4-8ohms and you will fry the deck and speakers.

 

[jtm087]

how do I know if I have a stock amp?

 

[jeephater#1]

how do I know if I have a stock amp?

well if you have the premium system in your truck then you have a amp do you have the stock radio if so how many wires come out of it if theres only like 4-7 wires then you do have a amp but if you have like 16 to 19 then you do not. also the amp if there will be in your jack storage area in the back i think thats where it is i didn't have one so....

 

[Gatorblazer]

Check on the amp, probably your problem. You have to have it run the speakers. WHen I changed the unit out in my 95, I went to sound shop for a harness, and they took a min to see if I had an amp or not, just to make sure I had the right one.
On the other hand, I had a similar problem with a Jensen head unit 8 years ago. One of the internal boards in the head unit actually fried, so the subs worked, but not the speakers. Might try to swap out the head unit, unless you know for sure that it works.

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

if all else fails and it is not the HU then you could run new wires to the speakers and wire in the sub sepratly.

 

[jtm087]

How would I go about running new wires to the speakers?? And if it was the amp, would the speakers work at all? cause they work with the factory radio

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

im pretty sure you have to bypass the amp to get the factories to work with an aftermarket...thats the whole blue wire deal. To frun new wires you run a set of positive and neg wires to the speakers and plug them in(solder).

 

[jtm087]

I have aftermarket speakers, and I just had a panasonic head unit that was working fine for months, I installed and wired the pioneer the same way i did the panasonic and now I have no sounds, maybe it is the head unit...

 

[DuckHuntINPro]

the problem is obviously not the physical wiring around your vehicle. and i highly doubt the speakers are f'ed up if it works with the factory radio. Most all speakers will run at 8 ohms and its unlikely the aftermarket HU your putting in would run differently... unless you wired them to do so which you didnt. I can almost guarantee your problem is with a factory amp. If you install an aftermarket HU you have to make sure you bypass that thing . check to see or call a local audio shop and check to see if your cars got a factory amp. in my old explorer (92) i bought a bypass harness, pulled off the rear passenger panel and bypassed it... very easy. if you run an aftermarket HU which powers the speakers through the factory amp which tries to also power you will get serious problems and risk ruining your factory amp. like i said... if it works with the factory radio, and your aftermarket HU works in other cars i see that being the only option. youve obviously checked and rechecked the wiring... just go look for that factory amp. if thats not the case.. you def have something behind that dash in the harness wired wrong somehow.

paul

 

[NoRockUnturned]

I had the same problem but fixed it rather quickly and easily....I just posted a new thread asking where the factory amp is. I realized after looking at the wiring harness diagram that there is a factory amp (where I dont know) but it needs power in order for the speakers to get sound. Connect your blue "amp" wire on your harness to the red "hot" wire and bingo you have sound. The amp just needs power.

 

[eckerd_explorer]

if you have the premium sound,,,,, you should have the rear comtrols. i have a 96 xlt with premium sound, no factory sub, and i do have the rear controls. i ran into this problem when i installed a new HU and 12 inch fosgate.
it was a ***** trying to locate and figure everything out, but once i did, it was like smooth butter.
the amp is on the rear passenger side fender, i tore out the little cargo insert in the back rear plastic piller thingy. once i spotted the amp i tore up some skin on my nuckles while reaching in there to unplug the amp wires so i could bypass it. thats the thing you have to do is bypass the factory amp...
once you run the wires from the HU to underneith the back seat, i used a coat hanger to fish them under the plastic fender cover and pulled them back to the cargo insert area where i had enough room to cut and splice the new bypass harness in.
i got my bypass harness from cartoys, and if i remember right you only need to use one of the plugs....? which would be the pulg you connect to the new wires you had to run from the new HU. any of this making sence?? once you have the wires connected to the new plug which i think should be male you then plug that into the other plugu that originally plugged into the amp which should be female.
i know this was all kinda garbled but i can send you some pics of mine, if any of this doesn't help. let us know.
tony

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

for mine to bypass the stock amp i just connected the blue wires..... i dint have to go all the way back to the amp.

 

[eckerd_explorer]

where did you connect the wires, at the amp or at the HU? the only way i could figure everything out was to bypass the amp the way i did. the amp powered my doors and my HU had more power so thats why i bypassed the amp.