Need help asap huge problem!!!!

[phemps 10+ year member]

Yea definately sounds like a speaker short...

 

[Nutdawg651]

get a half in dash kit that brings ur hu forward!!! thats what i had to do to my dads sh1t!!!

Naw it looks like **** ill show you a pic tomorrow when I can get some light

 

[Nutdawg651]

Thanks guys ill go back and redo the whole wiring tomorrow

 

[basswiigee]

Naw it looks like **** ill show you a pic tomorrow when I can get some light

lol, yeah shoot me some pics, didn't look bad in my dads sh1t but his hu is at the bottom of dash in 96 regal custom

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

if it is not a speaker wire short and the deck is actually losing power intermittently, then i'll ask if you use the proper harness for the vehicle, if it had a premium sound system, how the power antenna and remote turn-on are terminated, how you derived a ground for the head unit, etc. a slight short in power wires will blow fuses, not get the deck to randomly turn off and won't happen on bumps.

is the deck very secure, i.e. it doesn't move if you try to shake it? did you secure the rear with a strap to prevent it from moving?

 

[bbeljefe]

I'll never forget it from way back in the mid 80's when I started basic electronics courses, the first instructor I had told the class that we would become sick and tired of him telling us we had a wiring problem when a project wouldn't work.

And for most of the class, that was correct, because most of the class was dead to rights sure that their wiring was correct every time they let the smoke out of a semiconductor or a cap... and they were wrong.

Unless you've checked and double checked both ends of every wire and every connector/plug assembly connected to that head unit, I'm going to say wiring problem.

 

[Nutdawg651]

Ive hooked up decks for many years and never had a problem everything was working fine for the last two years now I hit a bump and it cuts out , or turn it up past 25 and cuts out ???? And yes this is the exact connector for my car they only make one for it

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

Ive hooked up decks for many years and never had a problem everything was working fine for the last two years now I hit a bump and it cuts out , or turn it up past 25 and cuts out ???? And yes this is the exact connector for my car they only make one for it

I've been wiring vehicles and helping people fix/troubleshoot problems for 20 years now, and speaker wire shorts are the most common problem I see. They usually develop over time when the cheap electrical tape falls apart or wires loosen over time from sub-par crimps. Crimps are not a guaranteed secure connection - especially if you're not using a perfectly sized connector, of good quality, with the correct sized crimping tool. and even then, it only takes one errant wire strand on a perfectly crimped connection to cause your problem.

you can continue thinking your wiring is flawless, but the issue you have says otherwise.

if I was fixing your problem, my first step would be re-doing every crimp in the car with solder and heat shrink.

 

[Side Show 10+ year member]

Also worth checking your crimp connections, you may have made a bad connection.....

you have a wiring/batt/electrical issue, or a broken head unit/deck

 

[Nutdawg651]

No its a brand new deck i went back checked all conections its a voltage issue im getting rid of the car

 

[Knowmadic 10+ year member]

EDIT: Getting rid of the car without even checking for the cause of the problem..?

 

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

When I installed the speakers in my car I used spade connectors and forgot to tape off one of the connections in the drivers door, now whenever I roll my window down it makes loud crackling in that speaker and the sub booms. I just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. Check your connections, then torch the car. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rage.gif.0ad8a6e5565b5fddce406566fdd05149.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

No its a brand new deck i went back checked all conections its a voltage issue im getting rid of the car

define "checked"?

 

[bbeljefe]

Ive hooked up decks for many years and never had a problem everything was working fine for the last two years now I hit a bump and it cuts out , or turn it up past 25 and cuts out ???? And yes this is the exact connector for my car they only make one for it

Oh. Well in that case:

"Unless you've checked and double checked both ends of every wire and every connector/plug assembly connected to that head unit, I'm going to say wiring problem."

That means the head unit ground, which you most likely did not run, and all other power and speaker wires. I built and installed my first car audio system when I was 15. I've run wire in cars, boats, houses, commercial and industrial buildings and connected all manner of different electronics to it since that first car audio system I had.

I turned 45 last week and while I was working on my truck this past Saturday, I found a speaker wire that had gotten crushed under the seat mount. Fortunately, it hadn't shorted yet but had I not seen it, it would have.

No one is infallible, no matter how much wiring they've run. ;-)

 

[Umbra]

I'm almost positive this isn't it, since your subwoofer is also affected, but I'll mention it anyway because it might help someone. When my girlfriend purchased her used car the radio would cut out occasionally, especially when she hit a bump. I noticed whenever this happened the mechanism that triggers when you put a CD in would activate, so I popped a blank disc in the drive and the problem went away.