It's not for my protege but I can't quite figure out what is wrong with my girlfriends car.
It's kinda an install on a budget but right now she has a Lanzar amp, my W3s, and a schoche wiring kit from wal-mart.
I've wired quite a few cars before and never had a problem. The problem is she doesn't have a RCA port on the back of her head unit and the amp only has RCA inputs, there is no line-in that can be used off of the speaker wires.
After thinking I decided to cut an RCA wire and wire one of the wires to the positive and one to the negative. Nope didn't work, I then remembered that inside each RCA wire are 2 smaller wires. I then split the wire and wired the two wires inside of a single wire to the pos and neg. Boom booooom...it works.
The problem is...only somtimes. I put male ends on the wire to test it because she has the clips that come with the stock speakers. So it's running as a speaker would. I figure it will work after I use wire taps and hide them under the carpet somewhere...nope, that doesn't work.
I plugged it back into the speaker wire and it works again????
Now after starting the car it will turn on sometimes, if I play with the key and turn on and off the power it will come on after 3 or 4 tries.
Another thing I was thinking is there is no remote wire because it's an LXi and it's got the "infinity system" which has an amp in the trunk. So I connected the remote wire to the ACC wire. Is the amp turning on too soon?
I know this is kinda confusing but if you have any questions please ask them and I can probably clear things up.
What do I do?
It's kinda an install on a budget but right now she has a Lanzar amp, my W3s, and a schoche wiring kit from wal-mart.
I've wired quite a few cars before and never had a problem. The problem is she doesn't have a RCA port on the back of her head unit and the amp only has RCA inputs, there is no line-in that can be used off of the speaker wires.
After thinking I decided to cut an RCA wire and wire one of the wires to the positive and one to the negative. Nope didn't work, I then remembered that inside each RCA wire are 2 smaller wires. I then split the wire and wired the two wires inside of a single wire to the pos and neg. Boom booooom...it works.
The problem is...only somtimes. I put male ends on the wire to test it because she has the clips that come with the stock speakers. So it's running as a speaker would. I figure it will work after I use wire taps and hide them under the carpet somewhere...nope, that doesn't work.
I plugged it back into the speaker wire and it works again????
Now after starting the car it will turn on sometimes, if I play with the key and turn on and off the power it will come on after 3 or 4 tries.
Another thing I was thinking is there is no remote wire because it's an LXi and it's got the "infinity system" which has an amp in the trunk. So I connected the remote wire to the ACC wire. Is the amp turning on too soon?
I know this is kinda confusing but if you have any questions please ask them and I can probably clear things up.
What do I do?
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