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Brendon.
No hits in the actual audit and wiring topic listing!
Anyone have anything to say about this thread I made!? Or where should I put it!?
Thanks,
Brendon.
Hmmm?
Well, since someone took the flight of the friggin bumble bee, I'll paste his problem over here so the rest can see.
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I had a old Clarion head unit in my truck when I got it and everything worked fine and then I wanted to get a better headunit with a AUX. direct port for my ipod so I got a new Kenwood head unit. I love the features and look and I know the brand is ok, so I was excited to get it in! Me and my buddy take the old one out and wired it up with a new wiring harness and antenna extender, turn it on with it all hooked up and three out of four speakers dont work! WTF! I went and got the deck exchanged for another one and we wire it up and the same thing happens! It worked fine before! New head unit new wring harness, three out of four speakers dont work! AGAIN! WTF! brought my truck to Best Buy where I bought the deck from and had the guy that works in the installation bay look at the speakers, the wiring, and the deck and he said everything looks ok, but could not look at the wiring behind anything eles with paying a arm and a leg for him to do so! So me and my buddy take the door panel off and take out one of the not working speakers and take the deck out and run a test wire from the power deck to the speaker and the speaker works fine! So speakers are not blown! So I think I came to the conclusion that a connection from the deck to the speakers is a bad one. So I made appointment at Best Buy Saturday for them to "fix" the connections. The wires from the deck to the speakers and then it should work! Little more money but this should fix it.. I hope!
Do you think this is what the problem is? Or does anyone have anything on this situation I am in!!!
Thanks in advance!
Brendon!
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I had a old Clarion head unit in my truck when I got it and everything worked fine and then I wanted to get a better headunit with a AUX. direct port for my ipod so I got a new Kenwood head unit. I love the features and look and I know the brand is ok, so I was excited to get it in! Me and my buddy take the old one out and wired it up with a new wiring harness and antenna extender, turn it on with it all hooked up and three out of four speakers dont work! WTF! I went and got the deck exchanged for another one and we wire it up and the same thing happens! It worked fine before! New head unit new wring harness, three out of four speakers dont work! AGAIN! WTF! brought my truck to Best Buy where I bought the deck from and had the guy that works in the installation bay look at the speakers, the wiring, and the deck and he said everything looks ok, but could not look at the wiring behind anything eles with paying a arm and a leg for him to do so! So me and my buddy take the door panel off and take out one of the not working speakers and take the deck out and run a test wire from the power deck to the speaker and the speaker works fine! So speakers are not blown! So I think I came to the conclusion that a connection from the deck to the speakers is a bad one. So I made appointment at Best Buy Saturday for them to "fix" the connections. The wires from the deck to the speakers and then it should work! Little more money but this should fix it.. I hope!
Do you think this is what the problem is? Or does anyone have anything on this situation I am in!!!
Thanks in advance!
Brendon!
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And, My Reply:
It's fine to post this over in 2nd gen. Hell that's what you drive aint it?
You might want to pull the primary harness off, and test it with a volt meter. Take a paper clip X 2 and affix it to each probe. That way you have nice slender piece of metal to stick in the pins.
I am guessing that you accidentally pulled on the wires, instead of the plastic pull clip to remove the harness from the deck. It happens, and usually once you locate the problem, you can press it back in, and put a drop of super glue in the hole (Backside where the wires go into the plug) and that should help.
You might want to pull the primary harness off, and test it with a volt meter. Take a paper clip X 2 and affix it to each probe. That way you have nice slender piece of metal to stick in the pins.
I am guessing that you accidentally pulled on the wires, instead of the plastic pull clip to remove the harness from the deck. It happens, and usually once you locate the problem, you can press it back in, and put a drop of super glue in the hole (Backside where the wires go into the plug) and that should help.
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did your truck have the premium type infinity audio system. if so, then you have factory amps attached to the door speakers, and the wiring is funky for those. you have to connect the blue 12v amp wire to the speaker amps. or do like i did, and just run all new wires to amp and speakers.
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Well I already posted over there right after Laramie
DV has a good point though.
+1 I agree that by simple deduction if your head unit works and the speakers work, then it must be a bad wiring harness. Either the factory harness or maybe your adapter harness. I assume you used an adapter and didn't cut the wires.
I know assumptions make an *** out of me and you, but I HOPE that this was a clean install. I hate seeing botched installs where black tape covers the the wire connections.
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I guess we wont know till he posts again. In the old days all we had was black tape, no fancy adapters. You had to go through and figure out what each wire did, then follow the instructions on the new deck to see what to hook up. Now it's so much easier. Heck, I started with a car that had an AM radio and one front speaker. Being a kid I added two rear speakers and a fader switch. Later I upgraded to AM/FM, That was a hoot.
I guess we wont know till he posts again. In the old days all we had was black tape, no fancy adapters. You had to go through and figure out what each wire did, then follow the instructions on the new deck to see what to hook up. Now it's so much easier. Heck, I started with a car that had an AM radio and one front speaker. Being a kid I added two rear speakers and a fader switch. Later I upgraded to AM/FM, That was a hoot.
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the wiring adapters don't directly support and document the infinity system.
you have to do funky stuff to wire them up. i don't know exactly what, but you have to get power and signal to the amps first, and then there's a signal jumper from the amps to the factory speakers. there's some past posts that have the detail listed.
you have to do funky stuff to wire them up. i don't know exactly what, but you have to get power and signal to the amps first, and then there's a signal jumper from the amps to the factory speakers. there's some past posts that have the detail listed.