Thread: Need AMP wiring help!!!!!!! Now with another wire problem

Alright im in the process of (re)installiing my subs and amp, and im hooking everything up but theres a wire that the shop that installed it the first time ran and i help with what its for and were can i put it, because i cant use the same spot they did.
The wire comes out of the remote pot on the amp and was ran under the dash looks to be around the ignition system, its a thick brown wire. but i have no way of attaching the little wire coming off the amp to the thick wire in the car.
So im looking for a new place to put it..
Ill work on getting a link to the amp i got

connect to switched 12v source

CO5001 (500 Watts Max Power) - Orion Card Audio

thats the amp

and in the owners manual on the port layout it says this

"REM Remote Turn-on Input - turns on/off the amplifier when fed Switched 9 - 15
V+."

so i guess i just to know where in the car can i tap into for this

Originally Posted by Erik Adam Rodriguez

connect to switched 12v source

Like a cig lighter port?

no thats constant in these cars try the remote wire on the back of the deck it should be blue with a white line

i have an aftermarket hu and theres a mess of wires behind it
so basicly i just need to find a switched 12v source?
Is there any in the trunk that can be used, that'll be easier then running it all the way up front. But if i have to then ill make do and try to find it. What is it used for? just telling the amp when to turn on?

do you have bose in the car

nope, but nothing is stock either. im gonna go look behind the hu and see if i can find the wire your talking about. if i cant ill take a pic and see if someone else can see it

If its the switched 12 volt source u could connect it to radio power source or ignition source

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why dont you just solder a new length of wire to the existing wire, so it reaches the new amp location?

^^^^^^ That would be an even easier way to go about it

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the problem i have is that the wire they tapped into wont work with the wire i got now so i need to find a new source
i pulled the hu and found this


can i use that?

thats it use that wire problem solved

great thanks for the help, and heres to think i was starting to think i was getting this stereo stuff

Alright so i have another,not problem but issue.. i have a 4gauge ground wire but i dont have any way to attach it to the body, so im looking for ideas
i was thinking just screw it down and be done with it but idk how well that'll work, anybody got some ideas?

drill a hole, nut and bolt that sucker down? sand the paint off first.

or sand and use a fat self tapping screw to the trunk.

sand down around a strut bolt, works great and is good connection. dont do a self tapper, they will loose connection or not be a great ground. bolt is secured

that strut bolt wont get any better. wish i thought of it lol

how can i hook the wire to it i dont have any connectors, i would just have to wrap the wire around the nut and tighten it down