usmccjc18
Junior Member
Greetings,
I'm hoping someone might point me in the right direction. I've put very complicated and expensive entire wiring harnesses and systems in cars and boats and I'm getting my a$$ kicked while working in a base 2003 Subaru legacy. I put an older alpine cda-9885 deck in it about a week ago to replace the factory one (this is my little rally car I play around with, but we drive it to the track on a dealer plate so its still nice to have tunes, so everything in this was on the cheap). Worked great for the week then this morning extremely low volume with distortion, so I figured the for free deck went bad so I went and bought a basic new kenwood deck, installed it, and had no power. Come to find out the constant 12v wire on the factory harness was not outputting anything (key on had 12v+ with key on). Jumped the wire to the cigarette lighter and the deck lit right up but still has the same low volume with distortion problem. I tried moving the ground to 4 different places, and then tried direct power for both positive leads and the negative directly to the battery. With all combinations, the deck turns on, lights up, and works, but with low volume and a lot of distortion. Tried re-using factory deck, and that is the same. Disconnected and reconnected every wire multiple times, checked every interior fuse for the car. I am at a total loss. Any insight or ideas would be much appreciated.
I'm hoping someone might point me in the right direction. I've put very complicated and expensive entire wiring harnesses and systems in cars and boats and I'm getting my a$$ kicked while working in a base 2003 Subaru legacy. I put an older alpine cda-9885 deck in it about a week ago to replace the factory one (this is my little rally car I play around with, but we drive it to the track on a dealer plate so its still nice to have tunes, so everything in this was on the cheap). Worked great for the week then this morning extremely low volume with distortion, so I figured the for free deck went bad so I went and bought a basic new kenwood deck, installed it, and had no power. Come to find out the constant 12v wire on the factory harness was not outputting anything (key on had 12v+ with key on). Jumped the wire to the cigarette lighter and the deck lit right up but still has the same low volume with distortion problem. I tried moving the ground to 4 different places, and then tried direct power for both positive leads and the negative directly to the battery. With all combinations, the deck turns on, lights up, and works, but with low volume and a lot of distortion. Tried re-using factory deck, and that is the same. Disconnected and reconnected every wire multiple times, checked every interior fuse for the car. I am at a total loss. Any insight or ideas would be much appreciated.
