ok so im installing subs and i have read that u should splice into the blue wire of your wiring harness for your headunit so what instantly popped into my head was this.



but then i read that you splice into the blue wire and tape off the old end so what popped into my head is this




so which way is it???

 

Well....don't bother splicing into it if you're just running one amp. The headunit will have the remote out (blue or blue/white), so you just connect it to that wire. Anywhere. Cut it, solder it, look menacingly at it until it works.....it's up to you.

 

Do you have the Stock Pioneer System??

 

^^^Yeah
Big question is, are you installing an aftermarket HU or running with the stock one.

If its aftermarket, its easy, but if you have the Pioneer system it changes the way you have to do it a bit, the remote has to hook up with the car as well as go to the amp, just twist all 3 wires (HU, Car, and wire to go to the amp)together. If not its just one wire that runs back, connect it with the HU wire and run it back to the amp.

If your keeping the stock HU then you need a LOC and thats a whole other discussion

 

its an aftermarket headunit so if i'm reading your post right then it the 2nd of my 2 pictures just from the headunit to the amp and not the car

 

don't run the blue wire to the harness run it to the amp.

 

huh? u run the remote wire from the amp to the blue/blue white wire of the harness.....

 

bump for more help. i was talking to a friend and they were saying they always just hooked there remote wire to the fuse for there cig lighter since its not a constant when u turn the car on it tells the amp to turn on and when u turn it off the amp shuts down. i'm thinking of doing this instead of chopping up my harness.

 

Ok out of the radio harness there should be a blue with a white stripe wire (the remote wire) Hook that up the the wire you have running to your amp. Did you put the radio in your car? Do you have the factory pioneer sound system?

 

i put the radio in. no pioneer system

 

Your radio should have a blue with a white stripe wire coming out of it. You should just be able to hook that wire up to the remote wire for your amp and you will be good to go!!

 

you can either use the blue/white wire from the back of the HU and splice a remote wire then run it to your amp

or do you what just said and stick a small wire into the wiper or sunroof fuse then run that back to the amp, im think the cig fuse is constant power, i may be wrong tho.

 

thank you im just gonna use a fuse thats not constant power then i would much rather not hack up my harness if i dont have to!

 

use the wiper (wpr) fuse on the interior fuse box in the passenger footwell

 

If you can use the head unit, its easier.
The Blue/White wire coming from your new HU, twist a piece of wire to the end of it and run it back to the amp, connect it to the remote terminal on the amp and your done.

The remote coming off the HU has a delay on it, this is to avoid feedback (poping noise) through your speakers. It delays the amp/s from turning on and off for a couple seconds.
It used to be that you could set the delay time in the HU (2-5 sec) but I haven't seen a HU with that function for a while

BTW- since you don't have the Pioneer system you don't have a remote wire coming from the car itself, mainly because you don't have a stock amp that needs a remote wire. So you don't have to hack up your harness, if you take the red and blue piece away from the top of your second picture, and have just the blue wire from the HU to the amp, then you have got it right.

 

so on the stock pioneer h/u,, their is a blue/white remote wire?

 

No its Pink
Check the Pinouts at the top of the section

 

thanks ,, didnt even see it thier.. I didnt want to run my remote off my fuse box anymore..