Benno's Audio Install thread

[572]

What size cable is that ground? You'll need at least 8ga. When I first put mine in the ground I selected in the centre console wasn't good enough, so nothing happened, but moving it to another bolt there worked

[benno]

The ground is a 4g also. The little brown wire in that pic is something else that is grounded there - you can just see the black cover over my 4g ground running off downward in the pic. I'll clean up the contacts etc or try another ground and see what happens...

[benno]

No dice. ****.

[Mr ©harisma]

Did you turn your headunit on / fuse in the holder ... j/k

Perhaps you should try running a remote wire anyways, just to check if everything is ok that way. Just use an acc for the time being from a cigg lighter etc. See if that turns the bad boy on. If you have another amp lying round, hook that up to the power and see if it gives you some love.

Does it have a switch to toggle between normal mode and PnP mode?

You should also try plugging something into the AUX port to see that works as well.

[benno]

Yeah fuse in - the green light on the amp comes on, which indicates that it has power and is active. There is a red error light light which comes on briefly and switches off.

I tried the acc wire to supplement the existing pnp stuff but that didn't help. The manual indicates that the green light means the amp is active - this light switches on when the pnp harness is plugged in.

Nah, no switch to toggle between pnp/normal.

I didn't try the aux in port as I couldn't find a 3.5mm stereo cable, but I plugged an ipod into the RCA in and ran an acc wire to turn it on - still no love.

[Greg Roles]

I know just splicing into the head to speaker harness should work, but the whole CAN-BUS system is WEIRD, and perhaps it's not that simple?

Can you hook it up to a spare speaker, power it from the car, and just see if you have ANY output? The ipod with a spare speaker should let you see if the amp is working???

Oh and cable overkill isn't a problem to anyone but Polar. I have full car length 00 guage both plus and minus.

[benno]

Cogdoc I'll give that a go shortly. I think I'll power it off a spare battery I have lying around though.

[Mr ©harisma]

At this stage I would look to a donar car who has working amps and change the Blaupunkt into that.

Hate to say it but it sounds bad dude.

[benno]

I just got back from the grudge.

I powered the amp off a spare battery, green light came on appropriately etc. Source was an ipod nano and iphone, via RCA cable to the RCA in. Sound output to a spare home audio speaker.

Nothing.

I'll try for a refund....

On the plus side, since disconnecting the car battery, the car really seems to drive nicer. It pulls a bit harder in the mid range and the DSG is a bit better behaved...

And I've established I've got a bit more room under the front seat than I thought... I could *just* squeeze a 320mm amp in there.

[Mr ©harisma]

Hard luck mate, where did you get it from?

D/c the battery will reset the ECU so it will re-learn your driving style