Bloody stereo

TuFf · backyard mechanic Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 502

in our gem it has the stock holden radio in it and i bought an el cheapo 1 for $30 i took the original radio out and on the new 1 it has 4 wires.. a ground, a power a left speaker and a right speaker. Do i have to buy a connection to hook them up? Coz i can't see anyway i could put it in without a connection.

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peteymate · tinkerer Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 306

cut the wires, and the new ones and solder the old and new wires together.

TuFf · backyard mechanic Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 502

yeah we got the power to it.. and blew it up in the process lol so now i gotta get another 1.. but before it blew up.. we could'nt get the speakers to work and we tried every wire.. and then we plugged the stocko 1 in and it worked... so i dunno whats going on there.. any ideas? Also i got a air horn for it.. u need to be a bloody scientist to read the fuggen instructions!!

R n B... What its meant to be..
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Gemini Driving Yobbo · petrol head Joined: 26 Feb 2002 Posts: 3897

haha memories of blowing shit up. i brought a shithouse one once for me corana and blew 2 up and took one back becasue i thought it didnt work becasue of the grounding. so take it back and go your cheap shit dont work. and they tell u to grab another one so grab a $70 one and walk out wit it. if u wanna be a slackass wit the wirering just use the old ones.cut the wire of from he plug and use it(sounds like u will do that)

TuFf · backyard mechanic Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 502

yeah thats what i am going to do. We got the power to it and we tried every single wire but the speakers would not work. On the upside i did get the horn to work so instead of a muffled fart its a bloody high pitched scream! Thats why i bought a air horn to replace it! No one would ever suspect a little rb gemini to sound like a fuggen truck!

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Kizza · tinkerer Joined: 06 Oct 2001 Posts: 440

mate with those decks the four wires are posative, negative, speaker left+ and speaker right+, wire the negative black to the chassis, wire the posative to the battery or some source of power, then wire speaker left to one side of the left speaker, then the other side of the speaker goes to the chassis or ground

and do the same with the right speaker. they only use one wire from the deck for each speaker the negative side of the speaker is just connected to the chassis/earth

hope this helps

TuFf · backyard mechanic Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 502

but should'nt the speakers of been picked up anyway? we tried every wire but when we put the stock radio back in it picked the speakers up.

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