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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    #1 is what made me find the burning ground wire so I replaced that with 4 gauge hoping it would fix all but no avail #2 May try making a new ground location just did not see a problem with the current #3 Ohm reading seemed fine everywhere i checked inside the sub box which made me think sub...
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    Ill double check tomorrow but from what I saw everything seemed fine. Opened up the box and did reading and it definitely had readings but no sound. Checked the wiring and couldn't find a problem which made me think the sub blew. Thats when i tried buying a new used sub but even that didn't...
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    Checked every wire and replaced ground wire from a 8 gauge to a 4 gauge and got thicker speaker wire. Rest seems fine. And yes the power light is on and not dim.
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    My sub didn't work on buddys amp, I've checked all my wiring and the only the ground wire seemed a bit fried but only cause it had melted seat on it so i got a new ground wire which use to be 8 gauge and now is 4 gauge but haven't been able to get the sub running since changing the wire. Also I...
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    Thing is I didn't instal the location of the grounding. Just a screw that was already there in my 98 golf and when I was looking up guidelines when installing at the beginning somebody said it was specifically there for the ground wire of an amp and people just said they used it so I went with it.
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    Ill try grinding paint off of it tmrw see if that works. But with a bad ground should the amp light be a lot more dim or show less voltage with a multimeter? Either way ill try a new ground spot and grind more paint off. His sub worked fine when I unhooked his and swapped it with mine for the...
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    I know it looks like its attached on paint but its not ??
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    The kit I bought was an 8 gauge ground wire but i upgraded to a 4 just last week after i saw how hot it was getting. I can go take a pic pretty quick here to show. Just confuses me how sub didn't work in my buddy car and a different sub didn't work on this amp. Also I was just going to buy a...
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    Subwoofer Help ?!

    Okay so I've had this sub in my car for about a year, I installed myself and everything went flawless for the most part. Well, in the past couple month it would cut out so I would just go to my trunk, wiggle the sub and it would kick back on. Then last week I could not get it going to the life...
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