Hello Everyone,
New to the Club and excited to learn more about my truck with you guys.
I own a 2001 Pathfinder 2wd LE
I'm currently trying to install a Power Acoustic PTID-2800. I bought the radio and amp harness
but Im not sure were the RCA plugs go that came with the amp harness.
Heres the link to the harness I bought it at Best Buy http://metraonline.com/part/70-7551
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Audio
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miamiheat3332
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Re: Audio
What you bought is for the headunit. I assume as of now you are just putting in subwoofers, which i did first also on my pathfinder for about a year till i did a full system. Im also assuming that you are keeping the stock headunit, so what you need to do is buy one of these http://www.amazon.com/Scosche-SLC4-Spea ... B000BFL52Q
then go in your trunk and the panel on the left, take that apart, in order to take it apart quickly, take off the piece of plastic when you open your trunk and look down it runs along the whole bottom, it has fake plastic screws on it, once that is out, go over to the drivers side rear door, and pry up the kickpanel with a flathead (use a cloth under it or something so you dont scratch the paint), or if your good you can do it with your hands but dont break it. Then pull back the rubber weatherstripping that runs along the big left trunk panel, and slowly start prying make sure you dont bend it too much and your getting the clips to pop out, after that you will now be able to access the factory amp for the rear speakers (front ones have small ones built into the door). Then you need the colors for the rear speaker negative and positive wires for both ( someone on here should be able to tell you which ones they are, i forgot ), splice into them with something called Posi-Wire taps, they are a couple of bucks. Then hook up the splices to the line output converter (the box i linked you to above). Once that is wired up you will then hook the rca cables for the amp into that line output converter, run your power wires from the battery for the amp, and then ground it somewhere in the trunk under a panel or something, put in your sub, run wires from the amp to that, and you are done.
My full install thread should help you in terms to use the pictures i have on there as a reference and to see how everything comes apart.
Make sure to run everything nice and make it a professional job, dont rig it or do it half assed! With what i told you and the pictures i think you wont have a problem though. If you need any help feel free to ask and welcome to the forum.
Heres the link to my full install thread: full-sound-system-install-lots-of-photos-t518024.html
P.S - dont let those pictures scare you that this is a tough job cause 3 quarters of my interior is in peices LOL. You only need to take off some kickpanels and one of the side seatbelt things in order to run power wire and such under the carpet.
then go in your trunk and the panel on the left, take that apart, in order to take it apart quickly, take off the piece of plastic when you open your trunk and look down it runs along the whole bottom, it has fake plastic screws on it, once that is out, go over to the drivers side rear door, and pry up the kickpanel with a flathead (use a cloth under it or something so you dont scratch the paint), or if your good you can do it with your hands but dont break it. Then pull back the rubber weatherstripping that runs along the big left trunk panel, and slowly start prying make sure you dont bend it too much and your getting the clips to pop out, after that you will now be able to access the factory amp for the rear speakers (front ones have small ones built into the door). Then you need the colors for the rear speaker negative and positive wires for both ( someone on here should be able to tell you which ones they are, i forgot ), splice into them with something called Posi-Wire taps, they are a couple of bucks. Then hook up the splices to the line output converter (the box i linked you to above). Once that is wired up you will then hook the rca cables for the amp into that line output converter, run your power wires from the battery for the amp, and then ground it somewhere in the trunk under a panel or something, put in your sub, run wires from the amp to that, and you are done.
My full install thread should help you in terms to use the pictures i have on there as a reference and to see how everything comes apart.
Make sure to run everything nice and make it a professional job, dont rig it or do it half assed! With what i told you and the pictures i think you wont have a problem though. If you need any help feel free to ask and welcome to the forum.
Heres the link to my full install thread: full-sound-system-install-lots-of-photos-t518024.html
P.S - dont let those pictures scare you that this is a tough job cause 3 quarters of my interior is in peices LOL. You only need to take off some kickpanels and one of the side seatbelt things in order to run power wire and such under the carpet.
Re: Audio
Thanks for the quick reply.
Im just installing an after market radio http://www.vminnovations.com/Product_28 ... n-LCD.html
but want to keep everything else stock now I tried hooking everything up with the harness and the new radio turns on but I get no sound
Amp harness Im using is 70-5551.
Im just installing an after market radio http://www.vminnovations.com/Product_28 ... n-LCD.html
but want to keep everything else stock now I tried hooking everything up with the harness and the new radio turns on but I get no sound
Amp harness Im using is 70-5551.
Re: Audio
Thanks for the quick reply.
Im just installing an after market radio http://www.vminnovations.com/Product_28 ... n-LCD.html
but want to keep everything else stock now I tried hooking everything up with the harness and the new radio turns on but I get no sound
Amp harness Im using is 70-5551.
is this all I need (crossing my fingers)
Im just installing an after market radio http://www.vminnovations.com/Product_28 ... n-LCD.html
but want to keep everything else stock now I tried hooking everything up with the harness and the new radio turns on but I get no sound
Amp harness Im using is 70-5551.
is this all I need (crossing my fingers)
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miamiheat3332
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- Car: 2002 Nissan Pathfinder SE - 2006 BMW X5 4.8is - 2001 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro Sport
Re: Audio
I will tell you right now, the bose systems utilize a very weird and bose specific design, where they send out certain voltages from the output and the speakers use weird ohm levels. When i did my system, before i put in all the door speakers i installed my headunit, and the speakers did not play nearly as loud as they did with the stock headunit (aka bose specific crap). So after you install this you will have some cool functions whatever that unit provides but the sound output will most likely be less. Also could you post a pic of your wiring? Along with the back of the headunit, if you do i'll be able to tell you whats wrong right away, as of now i have a good idea but im not going to assume just yet.
sorry hadn't seen the previos post Sounds good maimi ill take some pics and post them tomorrow