iroccopz28
Junior Member
Hello All,
I recently acquired a 92 Camaro RS that had a Kenwood stereo in it that was only playing on the front speakers. I removed the head unit and found they had it all wired wrong, so I wired it the way it is suppose to be wired. Turn it on and all the speakers sound like they are playing well, however, I touch the back where the heat sink is and it actually burnt my finger to a blister and it had only been playing about 5 mins. I have never had this happen with any stereo I have ever installed and I have done many over they years. SO I took it out and put in an older stereo that I know works (was a sony explode) well and within 3 mins I check and this one is also as hot (I didn't touch it long enough for a blister this time). So just out of curiosity, I wire up the last stereo I have laying here which is a Pioneer and same thing so Hot that not only was I not able to touch it, it was starting to melt a piece of electrical tape that was touching it.
This is something that I have never seen before, so I have been doing a lot of reading and finding that others have had the same issue but there seems to be a lot of disagreement as to what is the actual cause or how to actually find the problem, so here are a couple things that I looked at to see what I could find.
I disconnected all the speaker wires and turned it on with just the power, put a cd in and made sure that it was playing by watching the numbers on the screen, after 10 mins no heat.
The Speakers, I don't know what was installed but I was told that they were all replaced. SO idk if this is the correct way to check without taking the speakers out of the car, I used my multi-meter to try to get an idea of what ohm speakers were installed because I read that could be an issue and the readings I got using the wires were all 4.0 on the front 2 speakers and RR speaker. The LR speaker however was giving a reading of 5.0.
Now I know I'm probably just grasping at straws here and probably sound like I'm clueless but I admit that, that's why I'm hear hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. I am assuming that it is something to do with the speakers or the wiring to the speakers because I get the same results from 3 separate stereos but I don't know where to go from here to narrow down the issue.
Thank you for any help,
Jim
I recently acquired a 92 Camaro RS that had a Kenwood stereo in it that was only playing on the front speakers. I removed the head unit and found they had it all wired wrong, so I wired it the way it is suppose to be wired. Turn it on and all the speakers sound like they are playing well, however, I touch the back where the heat sink is and it actually burnt my finger to a blister and it had only been playing about 5 mins. I have never had this happen with any stereo I have ever installed and I have done many over they years. SO I took it out and put in an older stereo that I know works (was a sony explode) well and within 3 mins I check and this one is also as hot (I didn't touch it long enough for a blister this time). So just out of curiosity, I wire up the last stereo I have laying here which is a Pioneer and same thing so Hot that not only was I not able to touch it, it was starting to melt a piece of electrical tape that was touching it.
This is something that I have never seen before, so I have been doing a lot of reading and finding that others have had the same issue but there seems to be a lot of disagreement as to what is the actual cause or how to actually find the problem, so here are a couple things that I looked at to see what I could find.
I disconnected all the speaker wires and turned it on with just the power, put a cd in and made sure that it was playing by watching the numbers on the screen, after 10 mins no heat.
The Speakers, I don't know what was installed but I was told that they were all replaced. SO idk if this is the correct way to check without taking the speakers out of the car, I used my multi-meter to try to get an idea of what ohm speakers were installed because I read that could be an issue and the readings I got using the wires were all 4.0 on the front 2 speakers and RR speaker. The LR speaker however was giving a reading of 5.0.
Now I know I'm probably just grasping at straws here and probably sound like I'm clueless but I admit that, that's why I'm hear hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. I am assuming that it is something to do with the speakers or the wiring to the speakers because I get the same results from 3 separate stereos but I don't know where to go from here to narrow down the issue.
Thank you for any help,
Jim