possibly a repost, just can't find it. audio problem.

[zanesville3000gt]

OK the other night I was trying to hook up my door speakers to the amp I have running my 10" sub. The way I went about doing this is removed my drivers side door panel and left the speaker hooked up to the wires that run to the back of the headunit, but I also ran a positive and negetive off the speaker to my amp. I noticed the interior speakers popped and then all I heard was only the sub. No other interior speakers are working.


I also noticed that when I turn my car off the a-pillar gauges I have hooked up to the radio fuse as a power source so they light up stay on.... they never stayed on before. They would always go off when my key was turned off. And also my satalite radio stays on now as well. But when I turn it off manually or unplug it from my lighter my headunit begins flashing irratically. Can anyone tell me what could be wrong????? I checked all the uses and they are all fine, even the amp fuse and the headunit fuse as well.

Any help would be GREATLY APPRICIATED!!!!

One other thing before I forget to mention this, it's been rather cold here in Ohio so all the while I was doing this I had my car running with the heater on.

[VeeRFour05]

sounds like you cross shorted something, 1st off you should never work on your electrical with the power on, 2nd, what you probably did was feed all the power from your amp into the head unit, where the transistors can't handle anything over probably 50, so pretty much, you're wiring is messed up in your car, you need a new radio, and possibly new speakers, if you try to do this again, run the wires from the amp to the back of the headunit, cut the wires from the head unit to the speakers, and tie into the speaker wire there, makes life alot easier and it won't break things

[zanesville3000gt]

what exactly do you mean my wiring is messed up in my car????? Can it be fixed???? do you think all my speakers are blown? and what about the lighter/a pillar problem???

also would replacing the headunit fix this???

[stealthawd]

if you connected the power amp to the speaker AND left the speaker wires to the head unit connected, you sent power "backwards" into the head unit. that is VERY VERY bad. you very easily could have overloaded and shorted out a wire or circuit board...

[zanesville3000gt]

yea that's what had to have happened. I bought a new cd player and put it in, everything works fine now!

[VeeRFour05]

sounds like you cross shorted something inside the head unit that was feeding 12v to the radio acc circuit even with the car off