So i recently decided to buy a new deck for my car (when i bought it the guy took his stereo out). I hook it all up and it won't turn on, so i double check my wiring and try it again; still nothing. I checked the fuses and they were all fine.

Any ideas on wtf is wrong? We hooked up the stereo to a battery in my friends garage, and it worked fine, so it's not the deck.

 

check your wiring again.... use a volt meter to make sure you have power and make sure you have a good ground. Its your wiring if its not the radio.... check check and recheck.

 

Most likely a bad ground, just find a good bolt on the chassis behind the radio and run a new one, even if its not the problem its still a good idea as most stock radio grounds are weak and may create a whine on most aftermarket head units, if not just cause them to not turn on at all.

 

Alright, we took a volt meter and checked the wiring, there's no power at all coming from the wiring harnass. What do you guys suggest now? I don't wanna have to rewire part of my car.

 

Did you check your fuses under the hood too?

No power hardly ever means fried wires or short circuit, it means fuses.

 

Yea we checked all the fuses under the hood as well. I thought for sure it would be a fuse somewhere..

 

Sounds like you have some work ahead of you. check the continuity of the power wire while tracing it. You should find the brake as long as it isn't loomed and taped. If you find you have power after the fuse box, and none in the car, tap the power wire at the fuse box an re-route the new wire to the stock harness, or aftermarket harness. either should work. when you are done, make sure the radio turn off when you turn your car off. I wouldn't want you to direstly wire it to +12v and drain your battery. I am not sure if there is some kind of switch inbetween the fuse box and the radio that turns the radio off when you turn the key off.

 

I am def suprised it isn't a fuse though.

 

I am definately suRprised you got out of HS with your spelling the way it is.

 

Yea, i was surprised too. A friend of mine knows some people that work at a car audio shop, so we're gonna take it in there and get them to take a look.

 

my money is on a fuse....... be sure to let us know....

 

You sound like my wife. Is there some sort of competition?

And yes, I spel gud.

 

Not to insult intelligence, but some decks, like my Alpine has a fuse ON the deck itself. Incase it was overlooked

 

It's a new deck, but yea that fuse is fine too. So we tested the fuse outlets and **** under my dash and they were getting like 6V. So we just said **** this and ran a wire right from the battery to my deck. The deck still didn't turn on. So we decied the last thing we could do was make a new ground, which we did, and it worked. Both wires were somehow ****ed up. The problem now is that there's no sound... i'm gonna go out and buy a new harnass tomorrow and see if that fixes anything. But does anyone have any insight into wtf is wrong now? A while ago when i first ran into this power problem, when i would bend the wire where the deck wire and dash wire would meet, the speaker(s) would crackle. Now there's nothing...

 

Does anyone have any ideas? Right now i have black/white, blue/white, blue, yellow, red, black, orange, and orange/black wires not connected to anything. The yellow, red, and black wires are not connected to anything because i made my own ground and ran a new wire right to the battery.

 

the12volt.com has all the answers.

 

I hope you cut the ones you didn't use and tape them so they don't short something out. if not, one day you'll start to smell something, and it will be your wires burning up in your dash.... and you'll really be screwed then.

 

That would suck.

 

Take a step back for a second, because I lost you in the thread, and where you currently are.

First off, make sure the deck works. Take a piece of wire attached to the positive battery and hook it to both the red and yellow wires, and take a piece attached to the negative and hook it to the black. If the deck doesnt power up by doing so, then its the deck thats fuxored.

Assuming the deck powers up fine...

Getting a reading of 6V on a multimeter either means your fuse is partially blown, or that the meter doesnt have a good ground. Ground the meter to bare metal chassis, or better yet the negative battery if you have the slack, to get a 100% accurate reading. Retest your wires and fuses this way. If one side of a fuse now reads 12v and the other side 6, then its a partially blown fuse. If all are still fine, ie red and yellow in the dash read both 12v, then you have a bad ground.

That being said, Ill still bet its a fuse if its a power issue, not a ground issue. Yes, the only wires you should need to simply get the deck to power up are red yellow and black, constant switched and ground respectively. Ignore both black/white and orange/black completely. If you have Bose youll need to use both blue and blue/white once you get it powered up, if non-Bose youll only need blue and not blue/white. Whether you hook up orange for illumination is up to you. But wires in your dash don't just stop working, the fuses are there to do their job.

Figure this out first. Then we can help you out with your speaker crackling later, because this should never happen.

 

Kevin layin down the law.

 

I guess I was in the mood to type last night, cuz I typed that long @ss reply. Dirty job, but somebodys gotta do it.

 

Dirty job for sure. I've lost patience.

 

Dirty jobs is a great show They should make n ICE version of dirty jobs.

 

Don't get me started on some of the disgusting clusterfcuked jobs I've seen/worked on.

 

Yes I know all about that ish and it's not fun going through wiring messes and dirty cars and mice in cars etc.