OK, so I have a 96 max and it had a bose system in it. I bought the car used and the guy before me put in this sony xplode flip out head unit. He also had two dashboard tweeters that just sat under the winshield. I decided it would be cheapest to just get the oem-2 adaptor and take all the wires from the sony to the oem-2 and from the oem-2 to the factory wiring harness/bose amps.

Well I take the console off and start messin around and come upon a problem...i can't find the amplifier on wire anywhere. it's blue/white coming out of the oem-2 and sony, and there is a blue/white wire that is on the plug that plugs into the factory harness, but my factory harness only has the 4 wires for the back speakers. It doesn't have the two wires for the "amp on" or the amp ground. (Im talking about the shorter of the two plugs. The one with 2 pins on top and 4 pins on the bottom)

Well, I try turning it on without using the blue/white wire and I get sound out of all my speakers, but it's insanely quiet. I dont really hear anything untill im at about 35%. I can get to about 60% and still have a clear sound coming out (sorta clear, a little distorted) but once I go over 60% even one notch, it instantly gets insanely distorted. It doesn't sound like the speakers are distorted, just the signal. Although I could be wrong.

To make it short, if you could tell me what the blue/white wire color is coming from the factory side (since the colors of the wires change once they get to the white plugs) that would be great. Then I can just tap into it and be done (hopefully)

I also wanna know what to do with the black ground wires coming from the oem-2 adaptor. It has ground in and out. The sony is already grounded though.

Thanks a ton for any help you guys can give.

 

has anybody even had any experience with the OEM-2 adaptor?

 

hey buddy... what u have to do is connect the black wires together after the pac adapter as well as the blue ones those get connected together also.. the black are ground and the blue are power...

 

I only have 3 black ground wires. One coming out of my head unit, one on the input of the adaptor and one on the output of the adaptor.

The blue wires I have three of also. I dont have the harnesses anymore and need to find out what color he blue/white wire turns into on the other side of the white harness.