help!!!

[clubcar13 10+ year member]

Hey guys,

I am going to wire up my subs to my car and I was just wanting a correction to see if I will be doing it right. Its a 04 ford explorer with the factory subwoofer and amp. I am using hte stock head unit.

First I will be running a power cord from the battery to the amp.

then run ground wire to amp

then take + and - wires out of the factory subwoofer and splice them and connect that to a line out converter box.

Then run a remote wire from that and the rca cables from the line out converter to the amp.

then I run the speaker wires from the new subwoofer to the amp.

Please let me know if this is correct. I have been trying to find out the correct procedure for this all day lol.

This is all the stuff I have. Only 1 of the subs will be hooked up. I still need to buy the line out converter. Is there any way of just skipping the line out converter. Can I just splice the wires into the high level input. But then where would my remote hook up to?

Click to read more...

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

Yes you can just splice into the speakers with high level inputs but chances are it will sound better if you use a converter. As far as your wiring, that all sounds correct, except you will have to tap the remote wire from the factory amp or behind the radio as the line output converter will not supply that.

 

[clubcar13 10+ year member]

Yes you can just splice into the speakers with high level inputs but chances are it will sound better if you use a converter. As far as your wiring, that all sounds correct, except you will have to tap the remote wire from the factory amp or behind the radio as the line output converter will not supply that.

OMG thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much man you are the best. This is what I am going to do.

Take the factory subwoofer and take the + and - wires out of it and add wire to them to reach the high level inputs on the new amplifier. Now I still dont know how I am going to do the remote. Do you think that the factory amp will have a remote cable going into it that I can add wire to and connect it to the new amp?

Mike

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

It should have a wire going into it that only supplies 12v when the radio is on. Pull out the dmm and test for the correct wire and yes than you can use that for the aftermarket amp.

 

[clubcar13 10+ year member]

bump. Anyone else have any more info on what to do. Maybe some tips?

 

[DRANGED 10+ year member]

Make sure your not grabbing the wires coming out of the factory amp for that woofer or you will smoke something. Because you will be amplifiying that signal twice and that's not good. Just grab the high level (spkr. wires) from behind the deck, and go into a LOC and run RCA's to the amp in the back, and you wont have any problems. Although you will get some alternator whine because the filtering in the factory decks is not as good as aftermarket head's.