cheap ass JVC deck

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:04 pm

my sister got a car and me and my brother in law are trying to install a system. they bough t all the components and we have everything wired up and got the dash kit and such for it. we could not find the proper wiring harness so we had to cut the stock connetors and rig it up. the unit powers on but it doesn't do anything else... we hooked up the power, ground, remote, and front speakers, is this all we need to hook up?

do we need the switched 12 volt? i'm pretty sure the model on this is like kdg-10 or something.. anyway, when it powers on the screen's backlight will turn on, then off.. you can hit the display button and the screen for it will turn on, show the time and then back off. when you put a cd in or take the cd out, it will flash a screen with all the usefull stuff (eq settings and such) and then go back to being dark... whats up?! im hoping its just a wire we missed.

sorry if this isn't structured very well :P im late for work.

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:13 pm

you need constant, accessory & ground to make the unit come on. I'm assuming you used a test light or dmm to find the right wires? What kind of car is it?

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:20 pm

we know what the wires are... but they ende dup taking it to a shop and got it done there. (the12volt.com has a diagram). they put a new adapter on (rpelaced the stock one we cut off) and fixed everything.. i went to 3 differnt audio stores (including the store that installed it) and tried to find the part :) . the my brother in law was inpatient so we just started chopping shit up.. but i wasn't really worried about how niec of an install ti was. he was using shitty stuff anyway. polk subs in a bandbass box (im not sure if they're loud, or if they just sound so shitty they sound loud..)