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Dylan

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Hi guys,

Thanks in advance for the help. I self-installed a head unit and 4 speakers about a year ago by myself. I used crimp connectors instead of soldering on all of it. About a month ago, the audio (in all 4 speakers) started cutting out briefly when I hit large bumps, and eventually cut out completely one day. I figured it was a loose connection behind the head unit, in the wiring harness, so I pulled the unit and checked everything and hooked it back up. Stereo seems to be working fine, getting radio signals and reading CDs, but I can't get any audio to my speakers. I've checked all of the connections to the factory plug-ins for the wiring harness and can't find anything suspicious. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened, and how I can fix this? Driving without audio for a month is making me insane. Thanks very much, I really appreciate it!

-Dylan
 
Start wiggling connections. Some units will cut all the speakers when one loses contact while others will just cut out front or rear.
 
another thing to check is whether one of your wires is grounding at the speakers. It happened to my friends car and the radio went into protect mode and wouldn't send anything to the speakers until we fixed it.
 
I wiggled seemingly everything, I'll check again. I guess I'll deal with it until I have a day I can rip everything out and solder all the connections. (Damn, I was hoping it wouldn't come to that.) Thanks for all the help!

-Dylan
 
Dylan said:
Hi guys,

Thanks in advance for the help. I self-installed a head unit and 4 speakers about a year ago by myself. I used crimp connectors instead of soldering on all of it. About a month ago, the audio (in all 4 speakers) started cutting out briefly when I hit large bumps, and eventually cut out completely one day. I figured it was a loose connection behind the head unit, in the wiring harness, so I pulled the unit and checked everything and hooked it back up. Stereo seems to be working fine, getting radio signals and reading CDs, but I can't get any audio to my speakers. I've checked all of the connections to the factory plug-ins for the wiring harness and can't find anything suspicious. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened, and how I can fix this? Driving without audio for a month is making me insane. Thanks very much, I really appreciate it!

-Dylan
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What kind of vehicle and what brand head unit... Could be a factory amp, but I don't know what your setup is, or possibly the internal amp on the radio is shot.... please provide more info....
 
Sorry so long for reply, haven't been on the forum in a while.

Its a 1996 Contour, GL, Zetec. The head unit is a cheap one, brand name is Dual, got it from Bestbuy just cause I needed a bare bones unit. Not the highest quality, it was like 80 bucks or so if I remember correctly..
 
Dylan said:
Sorry so long for reply, haven't been on the forum in a while.

Its a 1996 Contour, GL, Zetec. The head unit is a cheap one, brand name is Dual, got it from Bestbuy just cause I needed a bare bones unit. Not the highest quality, it was like 80 bucks or so if I remember correctly..
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thats probably your problem. dual is just about the lowest quality stereo equipment on the market. but have you tried takeing a multimeter to all of the speaker wires at the harness and making sure the impedance is at 4 ohms? it would be an easy way to rule out the speakers and wiring.
 
If you can figure out if your using your factory amp or not, I can help you troubleshoot or bypass if that's the case..
 
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