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Ongoing Car Audio Issues, is it the Head Unit?
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<blockquote data-quote="HardofWhoring" data-source="post: 8864208" data-attributes="member: 674149"><p>What he's saying is you need to pull the head unit out of the dash. Leave it connected to play, pull the speakers out of the door, and the wire out of the head unit, and connect known-good speaker wire from the speakers to the head unit. Doesn't need to be long, a foot will work. You don't need connectors for this, just make a connection that will work while just sitting there. This will tell you if it's the speaker wire. You have already had problems once, and you need to figure this out. You're just guessing right now. You need to start isolating what it is and what it isn't. </p><p></p><p></p><p>It's pretty basic stuff. Even if you don't know how, you can easily find a youtube video and watch someone else do it. Don't know how else to say it, but you're either willing to put in a minimal amount of effort or you're not. </p><p></p><p>If you just won't do that, my suggestion is to find a different audio shop, most likely a big box store like best buy. See if you can find someone who will do an install deal if you buy equipment from them. Consolidate your stereo story, and write it for the install tech, and they will know to, or specifically ask them to :</p><p>make sure the speaker depth works, </p><p>make sure the vehicle connections at the speaker are still good, </p><p>ask them if they will test the speakers with the head unit, before installing it. (They should have spare equipment they can use and do that in a couple minutes. If you tell them why they SHOULD understand and be cool about it). </p><p></p><p></p><p>FYI, Seriously, we've almost all been in a similar situation at some point, got fed up with their BS, and wanted to learn how to do it ourselves. We learned what we needed to, and just kept wanting to learn more for what new things we wanted to do. What you're wanting to know is really basic stuff, and if you put in a little effort, I'm sure you can pick it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardofWhoring, post: 8864208, member: 674149"] What he's saying is you need to pull the head unit out of the dash. Leave it connected to play, pull the speakers out of the door, and the wire out of the head unit, and connect known-good speaker wire from the speakers to the head unit. Doesn't need to be long, a foot will work. You don't need connectors for this, just make a connection that will work while just sitting there. This will tell you if it's the speaker wire. You have already had problems once, and you need to figure this out. You're just guessing right now. You need to start isolating what it is and what it isn't. It's pretty basic stuff. Even if you don't know how, you can easily find a youtube video and watch someone else do it. Don't know how else to say it, but you're either willing to put in a minimal amount of effort or you're not. If you just won't do that, my suggestion is to find a different audio shop, most likely a big box store like best buy. See if you can find someone who will do an install deal if you buy equipment from them. Consolidate your stereo story, and write it for the install tech, and they will know to, or specifically ask them to : make sure the speaker depth works, make sure the vehicle connections at the speaker are still good, ask them if they will test the speakers with the head unit, before installing it. (They should have spare equipment they can use and do that in a couple minutes. If you tell them why they SHOULD understand and be cool about it). FYI, Seriously, we've almost all been in a similar situation at some point, got fed up with their BS, and wanted to learn how to do it ourselves. We learned what we needed to, and just kept wanting to learn more for what new things we wanted to do. What you're wanting to know is really basic stuff, and if you put in a little effort, I'm sure you can pick it up. [/QUOTE]
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