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You gotta be careful with boosting features such as "loud" or "powerful". They'll boost certain frequencies into a dirty or clipped signal. This is probably the most common cause of equipment failure. Coils don't take very well to square waves.

 

Looks good! Nice install.

 

Very nice, You did a very good job on the wiring. Most people are just twisting and taping!

 

Thanks. I've done allot of electronics in my earlier days (electronics eng. technician in college, repaired electronics for a few years). I know the importance of making good connections... it's where most of the problems start.

 

Looks great, be careful with the Loudness

Aside from muddying the sound at moderate to higher volumes db is definitely right about long term damage to the voice coils if you leave it on. Its only meant to boost the mid and lows when the volume is low. Better to just add a 4 channel amp if you want everything louder.

 

That's a nifty setup. Great job!

 

How did you get the bezel off? I want to do the same thing on my 2012 Jeep Patriot.

Pictures and instructions would help alot! Thanks.

 

I got my information here... "How to remove 2012 Radio Bezel" by dB-SPl :notworthy:

 

so no need for the canbus here?? humm...seems simple...

 

Response to email question I received...

Hi Alex,

I didn't need that information so I don't have it (Jeep Speakers color code),
all I needed was the color code for the harness I bought.

However, I pasted 2 of the pictures I took together and if we were to line
up the connectors, the wire designation transfers to the other side...
(hummm he sais...)

Take a look at the attachment, the Jeep connector is on the left side, the
harness is on the right side.

As for which colors they are, I can't help you there. I'm color blind so I
usually depend on my wife to help me.

Claude.

 

Did you splice th accessory 12v or just reroute it to the amp?
in the case that you spliced it, did you notice anything weird using both sound while charging your cell, ect.

 

"12v Accessory" could mean many things I guess but in this case, it refers to the a +12v you apply to the H.U. to tell it that the Vehicle is On.

Your Amp doesn't get it's power from here, it gets it through a Big Ass cable you run direct from the battery.

 

Are you still able to use your steering wheel controls? I want to get an aftermarket setup but dont want to get rid of the steering wheel controls.

 

Mine was a basic RES Media Center 130, it didn't come with steering wheel controls.

 

Using this wiring harness, it didn't effect the door chimes or anything at all did it? Cause I was told I need an $80 wiring harness and I can't figure out why.

 

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Can anyone answer this question?

 

I used a $15 harness from walmart, didnt effect the chime, but I also have an 08. I think the only time chime is effected is when it is produced through the speakers, like on a lot of GM vehicles. open your door, see if it chimes through the speakers, or under the dash. if it's under the dash, I see no reason as to why the stereo would effect it.

 

most places will tell you that you need an $80 interface because the interface communicates with the vehicle and tells the radio when to turn on and turn off.
The OP did a "hardwire" for the switched 12v turn-on which in our case is easily accomplished by tapping into the cig lighter because it's also switched (turned on and off by the key.)

for steering wheel controls, you will need an interface. It's a $50 part (give or take) with 4 or 5 wires to connect to the vehicle/aftermarket radio

As stated above, most door chimes controlled through the radio were in General Motors Vehicles.

And to the person asking about weird noise by routing the ACC wire to the amp, I'm assuming you were talking about the turn-on wire for the amp, not the main constant power? You could get a hiss known as "ground-loop noise" if you use the cig lighter to turn on an amp. They have different grounding points which can allow electricity to flow between the devices and come out as noise in the speakers connected to the amplifier. In the OP's case, he probably used the "remote turn-on" output from his new JVC radio to turn his amp on. That way the amp goes on and off with the radio, not the key.

Nice install and nice write-up! You probably couldn't find the wiring diagram for the aftermarket harness because it's standard colors. If you search CEA standard wire colors you might find it easily

 

Need speaker wiring color codes for a 2016 jeep patriot. replacing 6x9's dont know which is hot / ground. have wiring adapters but i dont thank there right. Has factory cd and 6x9's in all 4 doors. HELP ! EMAIL ME AT STAGGERWINGCOUNTRYJAMBOREE@YAHOO.COM

 

I like your bluetooth microphone location. Keep in mind that the amp needs room to breathe and not over heat.