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<blockquote data-quote="Carbon Summit" data-source="post: 5207846" data-attributes="member: 603964">I finally gave up and decided to put that old Alpine amp in since it works that way and be done with it. The amp is old and probably not work anything but I didn&#039; t want to give someone one more reason to break into the piece of junk. The window would be worth more than the car. I usually don&#039;t lock it for just that reason.Anyway. I mounted the amp and planned on using the speaker wire that was for the rear speakers for the front speakers since they were run anyway and just run a couple of short runs for the rear speakers. One of the wires was about four inches too short so I took the door sill cover off to pull the wire and there it was right in front of my eyes... one of the door sill clips had just nicked the wire. It was hard to tell if it was actally all the way through or not.Even though the amp was mounted I had to know so I hooked the head unit back up and everything back the way it orignally was without the amp and hooked to the car battery and it works!!!**** I wish I could have the hours I&#039;ve put in to this project back. I check resistance on all the wires. Do you think my $14 Walmart mulitmeter isn&#039;t accurate enough to catch something like that?Anyway mystery solved. Sorry poopy car (what my six year old son named the car) for blaming you!!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carbon Summit, post: 5207846, member: 603964"] I finally gave up and decided to put that old Alpine amp in since it works that way and be done with it. The amp is old and probably not work anything but I didn' t want to give someone one more reason to break into the piece of junk. The window would be worth more than the car. I usually don't lock it for just that reason. Anyway. I mounted the amp and planned on using the speaker wire that was for the rear speakers for the front speakers since they were run anyway and just run a couple of short runs for the rear speakers. One of the wires was about four inches too short so I took the door sill cover off to pull the wire and there it was right in front of my eyes... one of the door sill clips had just nicked the wire. It was hard to tell if it was actally all the way through or not. Even though the amp was mounted I had to know so I hooked the head unit back up and everything back the way it orignally was without the amp and hooked to the car battery and it works!!! **** I wish I could have the hours I've put in to this project back. I check resistance on all the wires. Do you think my $14 Walmart mulitmeter isn't accurate enough to catch something like that? Anyway mystery solved. Sorry poopy car (what my six year old son named the car) for blaming you!!!! [/QUOTE]

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