factory amp in avenger problem

[corto 10+ year member]

i have a 95 dodge avenger. It has the infinity sound system in it. I have upgraded all of the speakers. When i first bout the car the wires from the amp to the 6x9s in the rear deck were cut and some one taped them back together but there still is no sound comming out of the 6x9s. I ran seperate wires from behind the headunit just so i had sound for awhile. something must have been wrong when some one else has messed with it because the lines were spliced. Where do i start?

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[corto 10+ year member]

time for a new factory amp?

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

If you have all new speakers and a new head unit, you should bypass the factory amp in any case.

 

[corto 10+ year member]

idk how to wire all of that. theres 6 speakers in all 2 tweets 2 shitty components and 2 6x9s 4 outputs on my headunit anyideas?

 

[acold7dusta 10+ year member]

the tweeters and the front speakers are usually tied in together to yield a 4 ohm load, with the tweeters having a cheap high pass filter on them

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

the tweeters and the front speakers are usually tied in together to yield a 4 ohm load, with the tweeters having a cheap high pass filter on them

Not in an Avenger. There are separate outputs for the tweeters on the factory amplifier, and the crossover is built into the amp.

 

[corto 10+ year member]

sooooooooooo what shouuld i do?

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

If you have 2-way or better speakers in the doors, then forget about the tweeters. Find the factory amp under the rear deck. If it's similar to a Sebring, you'll find one plug that has all the input wires (which should be wired to the head unit's speaker outputs) and another plug that has the output wires to the individual speakers. In the Sebring, the input wires are the same colors as the output wires, and the wires for the 6x9's are the same colors as those for the tweeters. I think your Avenger is the same way.

So the input plug includes front left and right and rear left and right inputs, and the output plug includes front left and right doors, front left and right tweeters, and rear left and right.

First figure out which is the input plug and which is the output. Then just connect the wires in the input plug to the same color wires in the output plug. You'll have to figure out which output wires are the 6x9's and which are the tweeters in the output plug, but that shouldn't be too hard. Just leave the tweeters unhooked.

You can either cut the wires and connect them together with barrel crimps, or strip the wires and add jumpers from the input to the output. The second way is more hassle but makes it easier to reconnect the factory amp if you want to go back to stock. Make sure you pull the plugs out of the amp first. Some of the wires in the plugs are for turn-on, power and ground; just leave them alone.