The_Greg
Enthusiast
So I bought a JVC $100 unit at Best Buy this weekend to replace the stock unit for a while - It does bluetooth calls and music, iPod controls, and has a stereo jack input up front too, so theres three ways to get my music off the iPhone. It also has a built in DAC for when I do connect it hardwired. I'll be using this for a while and then this winter it might pair up with new wiring, speakers, and a new amp. Anyways...
I bought the dodge pigtail and soldiered it to the JVC unit's pigtail, color for color, wire for wire. When I went to test it in the car, it would power up, recieve the correct radio stations (so the antenna is working) but it won't play music through the speakers - not even static. I think this has something to do with there being a factory amp built into the Viper. There is another plug that was left untouched from the wiring I did. I'm wondering what I did wrong or what I'm missing in order to get this to play music correctly...?
Here is a picture of the back of a dodge typical factory unit. There are two plugs that plug into this, one wider one and a square one. My fabricated harness plugs into the rectangular one, and the square plug is left dangling. Does that have something to do with it?
I've tried searching online and it has to have something to do with the factory amp I would guess. Either the radio is not pinging the amp to turn on or the radio assumes there isn't one there. Help!
I bought the dodge pigtail and soldiered it to the JVC unit's pigtail, color for color, wire for wire. When I went to test it in the car, it would power up, recieve the correct radio stations (so the antenna is working) but it won't play music through the speakers - not even static. I think this has something to do with there being a factory amp built into the Viper. There is another plug that was left untouched from the wiring I did. I'm wondering what I did wrong or what I'm missing in order to get this to play music correctly...?
Here is a picture of the back of a dodge typical factory unit. There are two plugs that plug into this, one wider one and a square one. My fabricated harness plugs into the rectangular one, and the square plug is left dangling. Does that have something to do with it?
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I've tried searching online and it has to have something to do with the factory amp I would guess. Either the radio is not pinging the amp to turn on or the radio assumes there isn't one there. Help!