slipknot

I've been working on my daughters Cherokee radio today as well. She has no tunes. I ran all new speaker wire from the front to the rear. New speakers were installed in the rear and the wiring was soldered in place but it still has no out put. The radio has power and the stations change on the digital screen. The clock keeps time well. I hear no static in it either. The wiring was a rats nest when I opened up the dashboard but I obtained a wiring diagram and have wired the new speakers to the correct wires on the wiring harness. Any Ideas?

mikesignal

stock radio or aftermarket? did you check the rear/front/left/right speaker controls?

95xjeep

Okay so I've reworded everything only to find out I might have A faulty power wire any suggestions on how to fix that without ripping apart the entire wiring harness in the engine bay?

AbbadonTD

What on earth were you Soldering in a car audio system? I was a professional installer and never once used solder. Solder is not good for audio.

If the Power (12+) is dead, than it needs replacement. If you find where its broken you can bridge around the break vs. running a whole new wire. Also you can just run the one new wire vs a whole harness worth.

SatiricalHen

if solder is bad, then what do you use?

AbbadonTD

pressure fittings that snap or good old fashioned splicing. You can hear solder, its distorts sound. There are a hundred ways to do it good enough vs perfect, but solder is going out of your way to make it worse. You might as well just electrical tape at that point (honestly, not a bad option)

I usually splice, tape, and then shrink speakers.
For decks, I will do the harness with clamp down fittings on each end, connect, and then shrink.

95xjeep

I didn't solder the guy before me did all that it's all jimmy rigged and I'm thinking about just doing a completely different power wiring and ground wiring since the two factory wires are fried I think

AbbadonTD

redoing wiring is never a bad idea, but believe it or not, the solid core, usually 16 gauge, speaker wire that was used factory is pretty good. Just like with home audio, you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on wire.

I would be very surprised if your factory wires were fried, outside of physical destruction, since they are not stranded wire (yes, that is actually worse despite the fact that virtually ALL speaker wire for home audio is stranded), its hard for them to fray by twisting, you have to cut that SOB...

I put in the sound bar speakers for my XJ today, from a Limited with the Jensen "accusound" system. Cardboard 99c speakers like in any factory car. Wiring was good, but the speaker cheap. The ones I put in are a 15 year old pair of Pioneers that came out of my 01 Kia Rio when I sold it in 2010. I paid $40 for the pair in 01.

AbbadonTD

oh yeah, and power and such its okay, just dont solder a speaker wire.