Re: Help w/ aftermarket stereo install!!

From: Ken Allgood (kenallgood@cox.net)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 08:15:39 EDT


Did you buy a wiring harness from Circuit city to plug into the factory wiring harness, or did you just splice up the factory harness?

Ken Allgood
97 CC SLT 5.2L

>
> From: "Brian Tong" <thedude807@hotmail.com>
> Date: 2003/07/17 Thu AM 12:11:33 EDT
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: Help w/ aftermarket stereo install!!
>
>
> I don't get it. I'v put a million stereo's in a million different cars, and
> I can't get this one to work!! It's on my '99 with factory cd player.
>
> Here's the deal. I am installing a Pioneer 5500. I already had a pioneer
> 200w amp powering a 10" sub. Should be real straight forward. But I get
> all the wires hooked up and there is no sound at all coming from ANY of my
> door/rear speakers. The head unit powers right up, the amp turns on, and
> the sub hits nice and clean, but NONE of the door/rear speakers are making a
> sound.
>
> So I'm frustrated thinking I got a bum head unit. Just for kicks I grab the
> speaker leads off of the sub and run the speaker wires from my amp to the
> speaker wires in the dash. I KNOW the amp is working, I KNOW there is sound
> coming out of it, I can hear it. But when I put the leads from the amp to
> the door speaker wire, nothing happens. No sound.
>
> Here's the other thing that's got me. What do the "PARK" and "ANT" wires do?
> I'm looking at the chrysler head unit and there is two little diagrams on
> it listing the wires coming out of it. It reads:
>
> Feed connector:
> (bat) (acc) (ill) (park) (rf-) (lf-) (mute)
>
> speaker connector:
> (rr-) (lr-) (rf+) (lf+) (rr+) (lr+) (ant)
>
> there is no wire coming out of the (mute) slot because I don't have a mute
> button. I know what all the other things are, but what is "park" and "ant".
> I assume "ant" means antenna, but it has a regular style antenna
> connection in the back, so I don't get it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brian
>
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