Recent content by Heide264

Hey all, haven't posted around here in a while. I know you guys probably get these questions 20 times a day, and I have read around a couple of them, but haven't had much time to dig in too deeply. I recently purchased a 2011 STi hatch - love the car... but the stereo is terrible. Supposedly...

I don't think it's the actual ignition wire, it's nose from cylinder ignition I am pretty certain. The engine in my POS astro van is right under the head unit. I think one or two of the spark plug wires has a very small crack in, and it is jumping to the car body. Hasn't gotten to the point it...

Update: Switched over my pioneer... Did the wire wrapped RCA grounding trick just to make sure. I drove to work in pretty heavy rain this morning... I could still hear the ignition noise, but not NEARLY as bad as it normally is in the rain. On the other hand, I only have my door amp going. The...

I think of fusing more as a long term safety thing rather than to protect me directly. Say one of your wires gets a hole worn in the insulation and it shorts. I wouldn't worry much about fusing the remote power. I am pretty sure the head unit would have that internally fused, but if it makes...

Going to double check the RCA grounds, but pretty sure it's ignition noise from a crack in my spark plug wires sometime. Actually swapping the eclipse I have in there with a pioneer this week (cut the head unit apart and soldered in a line to the power amp for an aux in). Just have to drill a...

Remote wire caused your transmission solenoid to go? I wouldn't think it'd be possible, that remote wire doesn't care much current... It's just from a relay/transistor switch of sorts from the head unit, not directly the battery in my understanding. I'm surprised it'd carry enough to do any...

Got everything wired up right with a good ground and all. Problem being I keep getting a slight crackle off and on when the engine is running that speeds up when engine RPMS are up. Also very common after I back off the pedal after having it down for a bit. Assuming one of my spark plug wires...

Okay, can somebody explain, on an older pioneer head unit (DEH-1600), it only supposedly has "rear" preouts... Any truth to this or marketing gimic? I would think a pre-out is a pre-out other than fade control.

Check to make sure you have the right speaker wire connections. Assuming you are running bridged mode - check your amp manual to make sure you hooked it up right. I know both of my amps the bridged configuration is not what I'd expect, and if its not right, it won't run at all. You might just...

Thanks, just going to wire it up to my dist blocks and try it out. Do you mean some amps have rca output as well as input? Are they the same idea as a splitter basically? I know mine don't, one is a 15+ year old USAmps150 and a mid line JBL. Never knew that though, appreciate it.

I have a pioneer hu which I'd prefer to use in place of my current eclipse one. It only has one set of pre-outs though. I was wondering if there would be any harm in just splitting the one set of pre-outs into 2 so I can run both my sub and door amps. The one amp actually has an optional...

Yeah I was basically about to do the same. Already have been messing with it for a year now. At least I'm really sure its well grounded now... I'll have to post a picture sometime for humor sake. I edited my post above, let me know if you have any feedback on it. Thanks again.

Going to look at the spark plugs first. I have gotten a couple flashing check engine lights that clear after a bit, which I figured was a bad spark plug connection, but never bothered to fix it... pointing my finger at that first. Then will go on to ground the RCAs if that doesn't fix it (that...

Been having a small electrical battle with a system in my 97 astro van I moved over from an older car. I know there are a lotta resources around, and I've done some reading, but I wanted to get some opinions on the matter before I start ripping more of it apart, don't have too much free time...

I'd just go back and look at the back speaker install yourself. Pay attention to any bare wires, and maybe ask your friend to redo the wiring a bit neater. I bet when the speaker is moving one of his connections is shorting; causing the hu to dump as much power as it can into the short and hence...