Installing my a new cd player and a sub

[Bboy_Jon]

well i should get it tomorow or friday

on the tracking it says it should arrive friday, but whenever i order computer stuff using fedex, it says itll show up one day, but it always shows up a day early, so hopefully itll be the same

ANyways, what color should i paint the din kit? my interior is beigeish and my exterior is maroon lol

[Bboy_Jon]

Ya i got all my stuff (cd player, amp wiring kit, and the din kit)

and man im confused

In the din kit, the instructions say to use this one mounting bracket, which is different then what it shows in the pic so i dunno what to use

and with the wiring harness, the wires dont match the wires in the car, do i have to move some wires in the connector? (like say the green wire is on one spot on the conenctor, on the wiring harness, its in another spot, do i need to move it?)

and i need to solder the harness to the harness that came with my cd player?

[tr10av]

Originally Posted by Bboy_Jon

and with the wiring harness, the wires dont match the wires in the car, do i have to move some wires in the connector? (like say the green wire is on one spot on the conenctor, on the wiring harness, its in another spot, do i need to move it?)

and i need to solder the harness to the harness that came with my cd player?

It doesn't matter that the car wires don't match up. There is no industry standard so every car has different colored wires.

Just solder your harness to the CD player harness. Those should be the same color but make sure you double check.

[Bboy_Jon]

ok so as long as the cd player wires match with the harness from the din kit, i can just connect it straight to the harness in the car?

my connector has 4 sections, 3 sections have wires, and in the other section theres nothin, but on the harness in the car, theres wires in that section, so wtf?

[scratchmaster_x]

underpowering a sub will definately hurt it it wont nessecarily hurt the speaker but the voice coil will be SHOT!!!!! so... take it as u want it

[Bboy_Jon]

ok on my head unit, it has a blue/white wire, and it says its for external amp control power lead

so do i have to solder my amp turn on wire to it?

[pimprolla112]

Scratchmaster underpowering will not hurt a sub underpowering with distortion and clipping will hurt it. I had 2 subs at 150rms and they were rated at 350rms i blew one when i put 450 to it. I ran it with 150 for about 6 months never even hurt the speakers. Now for something that might make you claim BS, my little brother has one of those same infinity's hooked up to a sub channel off of a computer 5.1 system. ITs like 30rms it doesnt sound all that great puts out a shit load of bass for such a small amp and its been like that for over a year. Unless you have some severe clipping or madass distortion underpowering wont hurt your subs. Speakers are a different story only because the frequency range they have but as long as you dont start clipping them or they dont start distoroting they wont fry.

To bboy those extra wires could be for the security system, or steering wheel controls i can call my uncle casue he does GM installations on 98 and up cars and i can see if he knows what the extra wires are for. Yeah thats the wire for the remote amp wire as for the harness the cd player should come with a color code sheet or it might have a label on top and it tells you what wire goes to where just match those together with the ones on the harness and its should come together pretty easily.

[Bboy_Jon]

ya all the wires match up, except for the orange which i thought i would need but it says its for illumination? (its not on the head unit)

[Bboy_Jon]

ok well i got everything soldered and it all works

the hard thing is mounting the dam thing

the manual had a pic of one bracket and they labeled it with the name of another bracket

so i used the one on the pic, and looks to me that the one that was labeled (not in the pic) would work perfectly

the holes dont match up (they sort of do) i CAN mod the hole a lil bit but i dont want to

is there anyway to remove the brackets?

nvm two minutes after i posted i figured out i could rip the brackets off, i switched them with the other ones, looks fine now

[Bboy_Jon]

ok people

i tried my alpine amp, didnt work

THe old amp worked, after moving the wires around a bit but then it stopped working, and itll light up every so often (the power led) but it wont stay on

so wtf?

is the fuse (the one that is near the battery) suppose to be tight? because i stuck it in, and i can pull it out super easy, shouldnt it be hard to pull out?

[TheWickidOne]

when you under power a sub it gets used to the low watts and when you goto put an amp the will push them you will kill them done that a million times and no never over power any subs. My SYSTEM RATTLES YOU TEETH!!!

[PaulD]

wow ... poor advice on a thread that's 4 years old