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Oct 16, 2003 | 10:27 PM

ddsnaggle

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Explorer 94 premium sound problem

I recently bought a 1994 eddie bauer explorer with premium sound included and wanted to put in an aftermarket head unit. I bought the harness that was made to fit the factory sound wiring and I thought everything would work out fine. However when I power up the cd player it seems to function however I get no sound whatsoever. I know the deck works, I pulled it and tested it in another car. I was thinking it would have to be a problem with the factory amp that is in the truck. I then bought a wiring setup that would connect to the speaker wiring to the pre-amp outputs on the head unit. This did not work either. I thought after the first attempt that the power from the deck was shutting the amp down, but now after using the low level signal from the pre-amp outputs on the deck and having no success I'm stumped. I don't want to wire around the factory amp but I'm runnign out of ideas. So I need help with two things 1- how can this deck work with the factory amp. 2- can I use the amp in some way if I wire around it, for a sub. I have seen the amp eliminator plug out on shelves but don't want to spend more money on something I don't know will work. Any thoughts would be helpful this point.

Oct 16, 2003 | 11:51 PM

mzimmers

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What kind of outputs to the amp did the original head unit have? What are the input options on the amp? Is there a switch on the amp telling it what kind of inputs to expect? Have you put a voltmeter on the pre-outs of the new head unit to ensure that signal is indeed coming out?

Oct 17, 2003 | 12:04 AM

ddsnaggle

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I found out that the amp needed a 5 volts of power, which I fed by the power antenna. It worked great right up until I shoved the cd player in and saw a spark. The power wire hit the hu cage and zaped the deck. Talk about a bad day, all that work to blow the deck I was gonna use. Oh well, I wanted an mp3 player anyway. Thanks for the help though, I'm sure you'll get a laugh out of that story of my stupidity.

Oct 18, 2003 | 06:36 PM

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when you bought the wire harness did they tell you that you needed to buy the amp bypass plug? if they didnt you need to buy it just go to a store where you can get incar cdplayers and such and ask for the amp bypass plug i had to when i put my cdplayer in. and the Amp is behind the pannel over the rear right tire if that helps