Hooked up system, interior speakers have no sound

Hi everyone,

I hooked up my stereo into my new car yesterday and everything seemed fine, but when I started the car up, there was no sound coming from the interior speakers.

I'm not sure, but could it be because I wired the speakers straight to the deck/wiring harness (meaning I hooked up the car's and deck's front speaker wires with my actual front speaker wires spliced in as well)?

Would splicing the wires into RCA cables and plugging the speakers into the front/rear speaker RCA channels fix this issue? Or do I have to simply remove the car's factory speaker wires from the harness. The car I have is a Nissan Altima XE (very rare, base, base model) I took the tweeters/pillars from a GXE. The deck is a Pioneer (new, don't know model) with 3 pairs of RCA outputs; Subs, fronts, and rears.

The deck/subs/amp are working fine as far as I can tell. The deck appears to function normally and the bass pounds out the subs, but that doesnt matter when it's ONLY bass.

Someone PLEASE help me!! I have attached a quick MS Paint of my wiring config. Please note, I have an additional 4 channel amp, but unless it is somehow BY FAR easier than simply correcting whatever is currently wrong, I am not interested in hooking it up.

Thanks in advance to the wonderful people at AF,

E L

EDIT: here's a link to the pic of the wiring i made
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9ba78d265f7619a3ed24a2875c7fa58ecbb495eb ff960eb7ce018c8114394287

????? I'm a lot confused ....

It sounds like you ran an RCA cable to the sub amp and are powering the subs from that, and are attempting the run the speakers that came with the car from the headunits internal amplifier. Check and make sure the headunits internal amplifier is turned on.

????? I'm a lot confused ....

It sounds like you ran an RCA cable to the sub amp and are powering the subs from that, and are attempting the run the speakers that came with the car from the headunits internal amplifier. Check and make sure the headunits internal amplifier is turned on.

Hi PaulD,

Thanks for the response. It's quite the opposite. I am trying not to use the factory speaker wiring at all, I tried wiring my speakers with speaker wire right to the dack of the deck.

BASICALLY, imagine you hooked up a headunit using the clip-on adapter and connected all the normal wires together, but rather than use the car speaker wiring, you added your own wires as well to the harness. SO like 3 pairs of wires joined together per speaker channel.

I don't know if that helps any better.

Hope So :S

Hi All,

Thanks for the help. It turns out it was all a result of one of the rear speaker terminals touching the chassis. I guess the deck realizes and shuts off all speakers to protect itself.

Too bad I figured it all out after additional cost and disassembling my whole setup, only to reinstall everything the exact same way......but hey, a vibrating rear view mirror makes it all worth it =)

you should be thanking the deck manufacturer .... the alternative to shutting the internal amp down when you grounded out a speaker output was destruction of the internal amp.

you should be thanking the deck manufacturer .... the alternative to shutting the internal amp down when you grounded out a speaker output was destruction of the internal amp.

aside from the common overheating, Pioneer is pretty solid, especially when you factor in the value compared to cost...but yeah you're absolutely right, thank god for new technology