NEED HELP!! Installing Replacement Receiver/CD Player

[gavnator]

Just purchased a replacement Pioneer DEH P6200BT from Crutchfield to replace existing Bose (Clarion) radio receiver and 6 disk player. Disconnected the old units. There are 4 block connections in the back of the old radio factory unit and 1 block connection going to the CD player. I purchased the Nissan Amplifier Interface adapter (OEA-4A). There are only 2 connection blocks (one is rectangle the other in square) provided with the OEA-4A AMP Interface. I connected all the speaker wires from the AMP interface to the Pioneer unit wiring based on provided color coding. All of these connections are on the input side of the OEA-4A harness. I then connected the power wires which are part of the rectangle interface block to the Pioneer unit wiring ( red to red-ignition, yellow to yellow--constant 12 volt, blue to blue/white for remote control CD-R510 control, and black ground. The only wires left that are not used are orange which is a dimmer wire not used, and 2 other wires (black/white and blue/white) which exit the smaller square block connection. I connected the square and rectangle block connections of the OEA-4A AMP interface to the 2 factory block interfaces that match up. The other 2 block connections that were plugged into the factory unit are not used nor is the block connection that attached to the 6 CD player. I also connected the antenna adapter. So I power up the Pathfinder turn on the unit and I see that it's finding stations but I have no sound. I got on the phone with Crutchfield tech, went through the wiring matchup, played with the Amp gain adjustment and still no sound. Tech believes the OEA-4A Amp unit is bad! I know mkmk and Towncivilian and others have either modifed or replaced there sound systems with some good tips. Am I missing anything?? New OEA-4A AMP inteface will arrive tomorrow. Any help/ideas is appreciated.

[miamiheat3332]

can you post me a pic of how the wiring looks behind your headunit, as you have a 01, and i think that differed a little from the 02, i can definatly help you as my memory is fresh cause i put mine in about a week ago, but get me that pic because you say theres 4 blocks and on mine there was three.

[gavnator]

Thanks. I was reading the installation book on the Pioneer unit and they say if there isv any type of error code or malfunction to reset the unit on the front panel. I will give it a shot.

[EsotericImage]

Gav

theres 1 wire which is the amp grounding line.. try grounding that and see if you have sound.

[miamiheat3332]

also make sure you have the amp turn on connected, i was overlooking that when i did my install and took me 10 min to realize it was the power turn on i didnt have hooked in, as the wire from the harness looked only blue which is power antenna, while it only had 1 white streak on one side is why i didnt see it.

[gavnator]

miamiheat, I think you hit it regarding the wiring. I was told this morning by Crutchfield tech that if I do not have the blue wire from the Pioneer unit connected to the blue and blue/white wiring in the harness, the AMP will not produce sound. Going to change the wiring tonight. I'll let you know what happens.

[miamiheat3332]

yeah on my harness manual it said the blue/white wire was for the amp turn on, which i did find a blue/white wire on my headunit, but on the harness i was like WTF in my head because all i saw was blue, upon closer look theres only 1 single whiteline on the bottom of it, instead of multiple white lines like most cables.

[gavnator]

Finished installation of Pioneer DEH6200BT tonight. What and improvement over the factory BOSE (Clarion) system. I'm not sorry I did the upgrade. I won't kid you I was on the phone with Crutchfield a couple of times on the new installation after we detemined the wiring problem. There techs are great!!! Stay safe..

[miamiheat3332]

cool, glad you got it done, post up a pic.