Trying to install a CD player? harness bad?

[protege_chris]

I'm trying to install a CD player into my van, actually. I just pulled it from my Contour.. I have hooked up the harness and .. anyways.

I hadit working. I left my van, came back later, turned the key on.. and I have no sound from any speakers.

I plugged up the stock deck, and it works fine.

I was messing with wires and got a POP from the rear speaker..

is this the CD player going bad (it's like 4 years old) or the harness failing? Opinions?

 

[CSVT_2004]

Can I get the make/model/year of the van your installing into, along with if it has any sort of markings for a premium sound system like infinity or bose... Sounds to be an amp turn on issue possibly...

 

[protege_chris]

The van is a 96' Dodge Caravan. Non infiniti-sound system, so.. quite basic.

I went out and bought a cheapo head unit and a new harness to test my theory. Connected the new harness, same problem. Connected the new head unit, and it works just fine. It's not that bad actually, I'm going to keep it.

When I can find my removal keys for the stock HU, I'm going to try and reinstall the Jensen (CD3210, it's quite old) into the Contour and see what happens. I just don't see how after all this time, it'd fail right after installing it into another car.

 

[AliasJerk]

I know some of the older dodges have some wiring issues behind the speakers, my brother had a mid 90's dodge that did the same thing shortly after we installed an aftermarket CD player in it, turned out the wiring behind the speaker had just... Fallen apart.

 

[protege_chris]

I don't know, I think if that had happened it wouldn't have worked with another head unit.

I'll update when I try and reinstall the HU into the contour and see what happens. It was a $99 unit 4 years ago.. so it would make sense that it finally died.

Speaking of which, the speakers in that van are incredible to be so old.

 

[CSVT_2004]

If it was working then you can back and it wasn't, I'd say you have a speaker going or shorted out, Take a multimeter and measure ohms on each of your speakers, should be around 4 ohms, if one is lower than that or 0 you could have a short or a bad speaker. An aftermarket radio usually operates in the 4-8ohm region. things higher or lower they usually don't like, it sounds like the radio went into protect mode.... if the lights stayed on and the sounds stopped thats the radio trying to save you from frying it's internal amplifier...