So I tired to connect my amp and sub with my pioneer head unit today, for some reason it wasn't working I attached the remote wore to a blue wire I. The back o my stereo harness I'm not sure that I was getting any power I know my sub wasn't working what am I missing? Any help is appreciated

 

is the amp coming on? if it isn't, you may have connected to the wrong wire.

if the amp is coming on, then it's some other connections.

 

I used the amp wire blue and white on the head unit harness I checked everything over it's allconnected

 

Check to see if the amp turns on when you switch the HU source to Radio/tuner. If it does, then you connected the amp remote to the HU antenna out. It needs to be connected to the Remote output for the amp to be on any time the HU is on.

 

Im pretty sure its a blue wire on the back of the headunit. Out of the 10+ ive installed, they have all been blue. If you have that all hooked up its probably a bad ground.

 

how do you know it's a bad ground? we don't know any symptoms yet. he just says he has it hooked up, and "it" doesn't work. OP hasn't specified what isn't working.

 

It's always refreshing to see that people don't bother reading the thread before posting.


There is no reason to believe (at this point) that it is definitely a ground issue. The first step is to make sure that the turn-on signal is reaching the amp - if it's not, it doesn't mean a damned thing if the amp ground is good or bad

 

I agree, and i did read the thread. the only reason i wrote what i wrote is because EVERY time i cant get an amp or something to turn on, and im sure everything is connected correctly, it always the ground.


So lay off guys, sheesh.

 

Im sure everything is hooked up correctly. I used the amp wire out of the HU harness not the antenna one. Im getting nothing out of the amp except the protection light comes on and off. Radio plays cds and tuner but nothing from the sub which is connected to my amp

 

Ok, now, go check your ground.

Your ground should have it's own bolt/screw on a major part of the chassis (not the cross-beam, it's only bolted in...not the suspension bolts, welds aren't very good conductors). You need to prepare the ground point by stripping ALL the layers of paint/primer/paint/primer/paint/rust inhibitor/primer/rust inhibitor...(you get the idea)...in a quarter sized area. Then drill your hole in the middle of the quarter and attach your ground screw (self-tapping screw or tap the hole and use a brass screw for better results).