fore explorer built in amp

[Jake95 10+ year member]

so i am installing a head unit in my friends explorer, and it has a built in amp for the speakers. the part for the amp has a ignition wire, a ground, and 1 rca output,. if im right, the ignition can just hook up to the other ignition, and the ground can go with another ground? and what about the 1 rca? usually they come in white and red, but this just has 1 black, where does that go?

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[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the part for the amp" but if it's a part of the wire harness designed to integrate the factory amp, then you can tie in ignition and ground with the rest of the harness and the RCA plug needs to go to your subwoofer output. If you're using the harness I'm thinking of, the factory amp only runs the subwoofer in that vehicle.

 

[Jake95 10+ year member]

ooh, ok, and yeah its just a small seperate harness, but it would be nice to find where that rca went, but it should also be fine without it, right, and not do anything to that harness? or should i jsut ground it anyways

 

[bigpeen 10+ year member]

What year Explorer is it? If its circa 94-97 get ready for a real PITA.

 

[Jake95 10+ year member]

What year Explorer is it? If its circa 94-97 get ready for a real PITA.

naw, its a 2001

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif by pass that factory amp. run new wires to each speaker.

 

[Jake95 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif by pass that factory amp. run new wires to each speaker.

Thanks, yeah because the new head unit has a 52w output so its nice

 

[bigpeen 10+ year member]

^^^ Yeah...I had to bypass the factory amp with my old 96 Eddie Bauer. You can get one from Crutchfield with the wires connected or do it on your own with some splicing and soldering.