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When hooking up radio i hook up the ground wire and hot wires the radio comes on but when i hook up the speaker wires i get no sound with none of the speaker wires
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Sound test/click test each speaker with a flashlight battery at the radio end of the harness. Hold the ground of battery on metal frame or ground wire and touch the speaker wire to the hot post of the battery. If speaker doesn't click click/static, speaker is bad or harness not connected to speaker. If each passes the test and clicks, your speaker control on the radio isn't working. Being a stereo installer you should know this, or possibly forgot to do so. I've neglected to do the same for the "hurry" mode had kicked in.
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1993 Dodge Dakota CDA-9833
Car Radio Battery Constant 12v+ Wire: Red yellow
Car Radio Accessory Switched 12v+ Wire: Red/White red
Car Radio Ground Wire: Black black
Car Stereo Dimmer Wire: Orange (tape this wire off) none
Left Front Speaker Positive Wire (+): Blue/White white
Left Front Speaker Negative Wire (-): Black white/black
Right Front Speaker Positive Wire (+): Purple gray
Right Front Speaker Negative Wire (-): Green gray/black
Left Rear Speaker Positive Wire (+): Black/Yellow green
Left Rear Speaker Negative Wire (-): Gray green/black
Right Rear Speaker Positive Wire (+): Blue/White purple
Right Rear Speaker Negative Wire (-): Blue/Orange purple/black
The fact that your speakers have only one wire, indicates that they are the old negative ground type. You will have to buy new speakers, or try and connect the negative wires of your speaker wires from the radio to the car body (chassis) and try that. Normally you will get a bit of static when you start your engine
careful not to cross the speaker wires you will blow the channels. check wiring diagram and ground wires
on the body from the radio. You may have the LED power hooked up but not the main power for the radio,
hope this helps
you need to wire up the speaker to the orange and black wire. orange is speaker positive and black is speaker ground the other wires are as follows
thick black= dc ground
orange= external speaker positive
black= external speaker ground
green=gps data in
brown= gps ground
yellow= nc
If the previous radio played all the speakers and the new one wont either:
1. You have not hooked the speakers up right.
2. All your speakers are blown.
3. There is a factory amp, you just don't know about it.
4. The radio has blown final outputs.
5. One or more speakers or speaker wires is seeing a ground (shorted out)
First check the radio, hook up a know good test speaker directly to the speaker outputs on the radio. If it works, then take a 9volt battery and try to pop the inside speakers with it. When you touch the + & - speaker wires to the battery + &- you should hear a pop at the speaker. If you do you don't have an amp. If you don't you might have an amp or the wire going to the speaker is dead or shorted out. It is unlikely that all four speakers would be bad or have bad wires. If none of them will pop you need to turn on the factory amp. Then they will play. If only one speaker wont pop then that is the bad speaker. If they all pop then you have a bad speaker or wire.
ok u have 8 wires because the other wire is just a ground.as long as u ground the other wires u should be fine. ok the wire that is marked ign. wire may be your mem.wich usally hooks to an orange wire the hot wire u have is just what it says hot that comp. at the end i blieve was a fuse .it sounds like the other part is missing.
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On many cars there is an exterior amp that the sound goes through before it is sent to the speakers. If the remote turn on wire isnt connected after you take your previous cd player out then the amp wont know when to turn on and therefore no sound will come from your speakers although your cd player is doing its job.
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