So I have a 2000 Integra, and I looked in the 98 Helms manual on page 23-200, and it shows terminal A3 as the "Lights-on signal" wire. Red with a black tracer. My harness adapter has it as orange, and says it's Positive something...So I connect this to the Orange "ILL" wire on my pioneer harness? I assume Illumination? Thats how I have it now and the dimmer doesn't do anything. Not sure if it's susposed too.

The reason I ask is I have BAD engine noise, and even feedback with the volume at 0 and the car off. I have knowledge in installing this stuff, and nothing is crossed and the power and remote wires are ran seperate from the speaker wires and RCA's. I have swapped RCA's, amps, and everything is ran seperate and not crossed anywhere. The deck is out of the dash with the harness plugged in to power it up, and a seperate set of RCA's plugged in to both the mounted amp and the a test amp, with a seperate speaker hooked up to eliminate possibilities. Still noise. I'm trying to borrow a pioneer deck to see if my deck is bad. The only other thing I can thing of is either a bad adapter harness, or stereo harness.

I'm using a Pioneer DEH-P980BT deck, with brand new Monster MIcro XLN RCA's, and Brand New TYPE R speakers. EVERYTHING is soldered. No butt connectors anywhere, even on the speaker wires spliced into the factor harness.

Any help?


Modified by justahobbie at 9:13 PM 4/23/2007

 

amp external amps?

 

I'm using an Alpine 4 channel, and i hooked up a Pioneer Premier 2 channel to test with, and i get feedback and engine noise out of both. I also have a Phoenix Gold 2 channel for my subs, but nothing is hooked up to it right now. I pull the fuse from the distribution block and i still get the noise from the 6.5's.


Modified by justahobbie at 9:51 PM 4/23/2007

 

maybe ground the HU directly to the frame as well and make sure amps are grounded at one point...

 

Yeah run a new ground directly to the chassis for the HU. About the dimmer issue, on most Pioneer's I've done, you need to shut the radio off, hold down the function button, then there is an option for dimmer. By default it is set as off. I'm not familiar with your exact model but if I were you I'd skim the book for that (if my suggestion doesn't work). Good luck!

 

thanksf or the help. i cut the chassis ground wire from the stock harness and connected it to the harness, but i got a new pioneer harness on the way and i will reground it. ill let you know...

 

Well I connected the speakers to the deck instead of running them off the amp, and the noise is gone. Wierd though cause I swapped amps and RCA's, and EVERYTHING is seperated. Nothing crossing. I'm buying a JL 500/5 and new RCA's and mounting them in the hatch. Anyone have one of those amps lying around?

 

The rca on the headunit could be blown. From impropper install or from a bad amp. Thats were this is leading to

 

dang...didnt even think something could have gone wrong. any idea what pioneer might charge for repair? is there anyway to confirm? or just try new amps...

 

Leave everything in the trunk alone and try a new headunit

 

try a new hu... also... run some rca's directly from the radio to the amp. not run them like u installed them but over ur seat just to test it out. if that fixes it then either u have bad rca's or a bad install. if it still whines then it's a hardware problem.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by perseverance &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> run some rca's directly from the radio to the amp. not run them like u installed them but over ur seat just to test it out. if that fixes it then either u have bad rca's or a bad install. if it still whines then it's a hardware problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>


also make sure that they are not directional RCAs...if you have them backwards it might cause some whine as well. double check that both your head unit and amplifier are to a SOLID, paint-free grounding point on the chassis somewhere. i'd say start from the deck and move your way back...