Ok well went through amazons return thing and they've already shipped me a new HU! So that was way easier than I thought. And wayne yea I didn't hear a pop or smoke or anything, but when the stereo shop tested it out it smelt like smoke so go figure. And I checked the fuse last night so go figure

 

If you plan to attempt this again yourself, for the specialized items might I suggest pretending it´s a centrefold model and you´re the photographer taking detailed pics of before, during, and after the stripping? Just so we can ¨read the articles¨ better? As in seeing the wire leads being jumped and the actual #´s on the relay/regulator for what is wired to what.

And I´d just do the resistor instead, if it kentucky-fried from your wiring that and the relay are the only 2 things that aren´t really just matching the leads with the color = this charts.

The shaker unit you put back in and it works, right?

 

i would highly recommend takin a meter and makin sure u have 12 volt on accessory and constant... did u ever verify that last time

 

Won´t fry anything, but that would suck. Wire it right, but doesn´t work because of this, then take it in to the electronics store and then they fry it. Irony there.

As pentavolvo states, check this at some point as well if you didn´t already:
For that metra harness, Yellow should always have 12v, Red should have 12v with key at ACC and IGN positions.

 

Well thanks for all of yalls help but I'm not gonna try it again lol. I'm taking it to the stereo shop and having them do it. And I haven't plugged in the shaker yet bc after I was done at the shop I went to dallas for the cotton bowl. Was quite the night

 

so basically we dont even know if the radio was dead or if you wired it wrong?

 

yea pretty much. if you guys want ill post some pix of my old wiring harness since i still have it. anyways i just dropped it off to get it installed and at a later date im gonna do the bypass since the shop obviously wont do it.

 

ok got it back with it installed and i forgot to tell them to put in the resistor so the subs are popping and i need to do the bypass. so what im gonna do is pull it out. take a picture of all the wires and where they go and what im gonna do with them so u guys can check it all.

 

The ¨install shop¨ didn´t figure out this would be needed after it blows your eardrums when they tested it? Nice.

So your saying your going to have to pull it out, and redo wiring after paying them to install it? I´m just going to go with:

mmm, yeah..

 

haha well i have to pull it to do the bypass anyways. and yea that is pretty annoying that they didnt try and fix the pop but whatever. also i told them not to put the trim back on anyways since i knew i was gonna pull it anyway so its just a matter of 4 screws