Pics of my Mark,And I need an Audio Guru!

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Hey guys,got it registered and titled today :) Gave it a bath.I went to buy the harness bypass for the amp,I finally found the right one.I hooked it up and nothing.The wire harness for the radio is brand new.And now the amp is bypassed and Still no sound:mad: I never had sound in this car so I assumed the amp was blown.Now its not in the picture and still nada.Anyone know??I did see on my pillar for the door I have that cell phone button?Could that in anyways be the reason I cant get the speakers to work?I tried 2 headunits same outcome.Well anyways here are some clean pics of her.
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Anyone that has a suggestion that helps me get tunes (besides rewiring the entire radio) I will mail them 1 Crispy creme donut and a Piece of Lasagna.!:D
 
Did you make sure there are speakers in the car? You can "spark" them to check-some of the harnesses have to be sqeezed together good to make the connection-I had to use a wire tie to keep it together-Use a AA battery and attach the positive and the negetive speaker leads to the positive and negetive (+ and -) of the battery-you with hear static out of the speaker-Hope this helps.
 
Well if you have the changer..... The plug for that and the amp look almost identical, see if you have the harness plugged into the wrong plug. And even when you use a new headunit, the amp will still be blown and not work.
 
No There is no changer,And I believe the bypass is hooked up correctly.I just temporarily ran speaker wire back to the rear speakers.They work fine.I am baffled.Someone with more expertise is going to have to look into it for me.I dont have anymore answers
 
Damn, you cloned my Mark!
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Regarding the stereo, I would simply recommend running your own speaker wiring. It's really not very difficult. The door speakers may be a bit challenging. I'd trace the wires out of the doors and just splice the speaker wires into the lines. The rear speakers are easier. Just run the lines under the running board and rear paneling.

Are you running an amp, or just the head unit's power?
 
Dam was green the most use color on gen I's ?

With problems with stock radios I say scrap it. get 4 200w 5 by 7 , and a new in dash cd player .
 
buddylee said:
Dam was green the most use color on gen I's ?

With problems with stock radios I say scrap it. get 4 200w 5 by 7 , and a new in dash cd player .
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I have an aftermarket CD deck,And the bypass harness.Im wondering if I need a different harness for the stereo itself...Im out driving today and it seems everyone likes to stare.Around here Mark's are a rare breed.:cool:
 
No sense in worrying about 4 200w 5x7's, you won't put that kind of power through them when you get an indash cd player. Best you will get out of a cd player is about 12-15w/ch real user wattage. Any 5x7 will get decent sound, but a round speaker will give you better sound.

as for the amp bypass, do you have the JBL system or the stock system. Amp bypass will make the headunit the amp. The stock system in my Mark had one amp and the HU was a dead head, meaning there is no internal power. I don't know installation very well, but it seems to me that if you bypassed the amp, which fed signal and power to your speakers, then you just cut off any possibility of getting sound. But if you are using the internal amp on an aftermarket HU, then just unplug the amp, run new speaker cable to the speakers directly, and use the HU's internal amp. I have been in car audio from owning a store to competing pro to just being a sales dude, and in my experience, to use a bypass is never the best route. Always run speaker wire to the speakers, never rely on the stock set to do you justice. Just my .02 cents worth.

check out my Mark VIII here:OnYrMrk aka YouthKwest
 
I think I have been there Joey..Yes, I am sure I have, and I registered. Will be there often. You see, Geolemon and I know each other and I noticed that he is on that site too. Look forward to chatting with you soon.

Joe
 
Are you positive the amp is bypassed? The reason I ask is this: In my Mustang, a plug that fit into the aftermarket harness am plug was plugged in and nothing. Drove me nuts. Traced and Traced and found that was not the right place to plug it in. There was another plug assembly farther down and much harder to get to that had to be coupled to the aftermarket harness. I originally thought I had the right one too. I ended up just taking the amp out completely and then I knew I had the right one.

If not you could have a shorted speaker or wire. But I would definately suspect something with amp first. Hoever the phone does run through the radio and also has a speaker interupt module...........so there could be something there.
 
In the 93 like I have. I was i Car audio for 12 years. Did you before you disconnected the factory amp connect the blue and blue w/white stripe wire to the blue wire on the aftermarket radio? that should have turned the factory amp on. All you do when you feed the signal of the new radio to amp is give it a hotter signal and you loose less on the volume knob still sounds great. The JBL system has 8 speakers not 4. So the amp has crossovers for the factory components. As far as the radio and the phone there is a wire in the harness between the radio and the amp that shuts down the amp so you can hear the phone. Boston makes a killer 5x7 components set that sounds unreal in these cars front and back.
 
Hmmz.Not sure now.That back panel is held up with rivets:confused: So I never actually pulled it down.Im kinda a big dude so no way was I crawling in the trunk.The harness fit,but now Im wondering if it is wired right.I think it could have hooked up somewhere else.I think I will have to drop that damn back plate and see what is what.For now I ran small Polk audio home speakers in the back seat and jumped it off the deck itself.Thanks for the advice.
 
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