hi all no doubt this has been asked a million times and i appologise in advance but searches didnt exactly answer the question clearly enough, IM IN AUSTRALIA and I have recently bought a 95 maxima and the cd player doesnt work and i was going to replace it with my alpine with usb anyway (saves burning cds constantly) anyway couldnt find a patch lead in town so figured would attempt to see if i could find wiring diagrams and install it myself. thankfully i didnt cut anything as yet but tested to find power and ignition etc which wasnt a problem however even tho it turned on and played the cd no matter what i tried or which config i tried i could not get the speakers to make so much as static, i tried this with the plug out of the stock unit and only tried running my alpine with the wires in the standard wiring plug as to make sure it would work befor cutting the plug off. what can i do to make this work? what have i missed out if the cd player plays why is there no sound if the speaker wires are conected in anyway? as i said there is no patch plugs available here so is there anyway i can install it so it works without running new wires to the speakers to the head unit or buying a patch lead from i dont know where and having to want to slit my throught listening to the crap radio stations i can pick up in the mean time ? thanks

 

Do you have factory Bose audio?

 

In addition to Tigersharkdude's question, Is your Alpine unit strictly a CD player or is it a radio receiver too?

If you want wiring diagrams, go here: http://boredmder.com/FSMs/Nissan/Maxima/

The wiring diagrams are in the EL section (electrical) and you want to look at the AUDIO section starting on page 99.

I hope the cars in our two countries use the same wiring.

 

im not to sure its the clarion unit and im asuming having the trouble it is the bose audio but not sure thanks

 

yer it is a radio reciever aswell but im not worried nor like listening to the radio stations here there isnt much to pick from at all and its all repeated a million times, thanks will check the diagram out and hopefully will shed some light as to what the deal is just find it wierd cant get the sound thru the speakers

 

yer the wiring diagram doesnt really help if it is the bose system the amps will obviously require power from somewhere which may be why when i try the speaker wires nothing happens ive got the power for the unit and everything sorted if some1 can direct me as to what i have to do and instruct me as to what wire goes where to get it to run it would be much appreciated

 

so i went today and got a harness that apparently fits all 95 nissans and is the only one listed here in aus but still no sound from speakers they work fine with factory radio but why not with the alpine head unit? the head unit has power turns on and says the cd is playing but turn volume up and nothing any sujestions how to get this to work or any1 experienced this b4 it is just a straight harnes Aerpro APP0121 the nissan side fits perfect but match the wires up and still silence any help would be hugely appreciated

 

Do any of you guys have a double din. I love my pioneer double din It looks and fits PERFECT in the 4th gens dash.

 

Sounds to me like you have factory BOSE. If so, you will need to get a proper kit to bypass the BOSE stuff

http://forums.maxima.org/audio-elect...nt-thread.html

Before you buy anything else, please figure out if you have bose or not. You can post a picture of your OEM cd player here and someone should be able to say yes or no on it ifs BOSE or not

 

If the car had a Bose system installed at the factory, it is a double din unit because it has radio, cassette tape and CD player. The non bose system was just radio and cassette tape. At least in the U.S.

Since your problem is with the CD player, your car has a Bose or an after-market head unit (radio). One way to tell if it is a Bose unit is to look at the door for the tape cassette. If the head unit is a Bose, it will say Bose on the door.

Assuming the car has a Bose system, each speaker has a amplifier printed circuit board on it that needs to have 12 volts for it to work. If you have looked at your speakers, you will see a solid red wire on each of them. This is the 12 volts. There is also a black wire on each speaker. This is ground.

The speakers get the 12 volts from fuse # 22, 15 amp, which is the middle column, 5th one from the top. The power from the fuse then goes to a relay called the "audio amp relay". To get this relay to energize and send the 12 volts to the speakers, the head unit (radio) has to send a signal to the relay. The signal from the head unit is the remote amplifier on signal, abbreviated "Amp Control" by Alpine.

So you need to connect the blue/white stripe wire (pin 3) from the radio to the green/white stripe wire (pin 12) in the Nissan harness so that the relay will energize and send power the the speakers.

 

OK so sounds like it is the bose system as there is the standard radio tape and a seperate cd player. Thanks dennismik i will try the wiring this afternoon and hopefully get something working

 

ok so there is no green/white wire in the standard nissan harness but there is a fuse in the bose audio spot in the fuse box so assume it is the bose audio so what can i do or do i have to order a kit from the states seen as everywhere here seems to think im a retard when i tell them that the only 1 listed here in aus doesnt work

 

in my max its a green red that apears to run the amps finally got something working however when all wired in now have no power lol will check everything over in the morning

 

The cars sold here in the US will have fuses in the panel for options that are not installed in the cars. I cannot accept the fuse as positive identification.

As for the wire color thing, I double checked the schematics. For the cars in the US, the wire is green/white stripe. It appears that the US cars have a different wire harness than you.

At this point in time, I don't know what you have managed to find out or do. I am not 100% convinced that you have a Bose system.