This car audio installation has been HELL. Nothing has gone right from start to finish, at every step I encounter some bullsh1t. Yesterday, I am on the last step which is to install my components. Pretty simple, right? Nope... got everything installed, and there is no sound from the things.

After I got my amp working (another hurdle) and before I installed the components, the stock front speakers were working fine. So I pulled the doors apart, laid the sound deadening, and wired up the speakers. First problem: speaker wire adapter was the wrong one (remember, something always goes wrong), so I was needing to cut into the stock wires. Here is what I did:

- blue and red harness that connects into the stock speaker is what I spliced in to. Red +, blue -.
- Ran speaker wire from red + to the crossover + in, blue - to crossover - in.
- Ran speaker wire from mid-range + and - to crossover woofer + and - in.
- Ran speaker wire from tweeter + and - to crossover + and - in.

Pretty damn simple, right? So how can there be no sound?!

I just want to finish this crap, I am at my patience's end.

 

RCA jacks to amp? Speaker wire from amp to crossover?

 

Yeah man, I had the amp wired up the other day, with sound making it to the front stock speakers. Speaker wire runs from the amp to the Crutchfield harness and connects to the stock wiring running to the speakers. Yes, I cut the front front's signal from the headunit, so the signal is: HU to amp, back up to harness, to doors.

 

I'm confused. You have the speaker wires running from the amp, to the harness, to the doors?

Do you have anything going to the inputs of the crossover? Normally you have +/- for tweeters, woofer, and input for the crossover.

 

I am using the stock speaker wire so that I don't have to go through the bullsh1t of running new through my doors. So instead of the wire running from the amp up through the console out to the doors, it simply is spliced into the speaker lines coming from the HU on the aftermarket harness, with that line cut from the HU so there is no signal running directly from the HU to the speakers. Here is an attached diagram.

 

KmanZ,,,one thing I thought of reading your post...when you spliced into the speaker wires at the harness,,,make sure you are tapping the harness that carries the signal though the factory speaker wire,,,if you tap the headunit harness and its not connected to the factory speaker wires, you will get no signal. I hope that makes sense,,,,

 

The stock speakers were working yesterday before I installed the new components, so it has to be something with new components.

 

diy is good, but sometimes, it best to let a pro do it a good pro that is.

readiung your first post, i am bit confused as to what you are doing, why dont you run new sepaker wires into the door from the amp? so you had your amp powering the stock espakres before, and all you did was change out the speakres? then it has to be the crossover wiring...not a chance that all four speakres simultaneously dont emit sound...

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Forget it... I am a retard It was the amp the whole time.

 

Do you have a Bose system? Do stock speakers wires come-in directly from the Bose amp or do they go from the Bose headunit to the speakers?

 

I couldn't tell you, as I have an Enth. Good question though.