BadBob

What colors did you tap into? I'm looking to bypass the oem sub and oem amp and run after market subs w/amp in the trunk. The main one I'm looking for is the on/off toggle wire Check out these attachments.SC.zip

Hey, I am about to run my sub and amp setup really soon and what you just posted helped a lot. If possible please tell me the color wires you tapped into and even better would be if you included some pictures. Thanks! Hey, I am about to run my sub and amp setup really soon and what you just posted helped a lot. If possible please tell me the color wires you tapped into and even better would be if you included some pictures. Thanks! SORRY FOR THE DELAY. I AM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SEND ATTACHMENTS. MAYBE THIS WILL BE THE ONE THAT GETS TO YOU.

How did you run the on/off toggle cable for your amps to the main head unit? What I did on mine (Pioneer factory system) is I tapped into all the necessary wiring going to the oem sub amp located on the package tray next to the oem subwoofer. I tapped into the hot, the ground & the on/off. I then cut the wires running from the oem sub amp to the oem subwoofer and ran them to the new sub amp (400 watt - I used a wire-to-rca type converter between the two sub amps for low level output) and then back to the oem subwoofer - now two amps pumping the sub - too much power so I replaced the 10" oem subwoofer with a higher wattage 10" Pioneer subwoofer (not alot of room over the gas tank, though, but it still fit). I added a separate subwoofer volume control device I found on ebay to my system ( I installed the volume control knob in the center console) which allows me to increase or decrease just the subwoofer volume. Pretty cool. For the rear deck speakers (plus two more that I added sitting on the floor board behind the front seats) I cut the wires going to the rear deck speakers and ran them to the another new power amp and back to the oem rear speakers and the two that I added. For hot, ground & on/off I tapped into the the same wires for the new sub amp. Sounds awesome & no problems so far.

Could be that part of the old antenna is still stuck in the spool or the new one is too long. They are pretty easy to remove and crack open (four to five screws) to see what is going on. Can you hear the motor stilling running after the antenna is down as far as it is going to go or does the motor stop when the antenna stops? If it continues to run, their may be a piece from the old antenna still in there. If it stops when the antenna does, then the new antenna may be too long - maybe trim it down a little at a time. Good Luck.

Same thing happened to me - the break and all. I took the bottom broken piece of the rod - now in the shape of a "U", drilled a small hole at the base of the "U", turned it upside down, drilled a small hole at the base of the top part of the rod just above the break point & screwed the two pieces together with a small sheet metal screw (kind of looked like a tuning fork). I then re-inserted the upside "U" part of the rod back into the locking mechanism in its original place (small hole with a spring loaded bar against the edge of the door) & clipped the top part of the rod back onto its place on the door handle. It has been over two months and it has worked like a charm (knock on wood).

I bot a 1" wide x 1/2" thick roll of foam rubber weather stripping at Walmart, unscrewed the cd player from the bracket, cut the weather striping into 1" x 1" squares & poked a hole thru the center (for the screw), put the weather stripping in between the cd player & the bracket at each screw point & reattached. There is one part of the bracket where I used a 3" x 1" piece - you'll know the piece when you see it. Now my cd player skips only when I hit really big stuff & not on every single little pebble on the road as it did before. I stuck one of those 400 watt mini motorcycle power amps from eBay for $30.00 (about the size of two regular cig packs stacked on top of each other) in between the subwoofer power amp & the subwoofer (stock pioneer system). too much power for the stock subwoofer. Replaced it with a Pioneer 600 watt subwoofer - still too much power. I am going to get on of those 1100 watt pioneer subwoofers with a 3" mounting depth next ( barely no room for the 600 watt sub because of the gas tank).

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