How to: Hook up SUBS in your car.

INTRO

Ok, in this blog I am going to teach you how to hook up a basic subwoofer system in your vehicle. I don’t know about newer models of cars though, the newest year I have ever hooked one up in was a 2001. If your car is newer my advice is to just have Best Buy do it.

GETTING READY

Ok, first I will list the necessary equipment and parts. You will need; an aftermarket CD deck, a subwoofer in an enclosed box, an amplifier, a wire harness kit for your deck, a deck adapter kit to fit the new deck where the stock one was, and a complete system wiring kit including a power wire, speaker wire, AUX wires, remote wire, and a ground wire. You can find all of these at Best Buy.

DECK INSTALL

Ok, first things first, putting the new deck in. To remove the stock deck you have to pull the dashboard cover off and you should see the screws holding in place. Get the screws out and pull the deck out, then unplug the stock wires and the antenna. Now you have to put together the deck adapter kit. There should be a manual for it which is coded by vehicle make and year, find your vehicle and put it together as shown. Next you get to the super fun part, splicing all the wires from the new deck to the wire harness kit you just bought. Its color coded, pretty self explanatory. Just make sure you splice the remote wire from the sub wiring kit to the remote wire on the deck otherwise the amp will not turn on. Then plug in the auxiliary cables from the sub wiring kit directly to the back of the head unit. Then, tape the AUX cables and the remote wire and run them to where your system will be. Now just put the dashboard back on and if you did everything right, it the deck should light up and work with your speakers.

SUB/AMP INSTALL

Ok, if you want your amp mounted on your sub box now is the time to get that done. Once the amp and subs are in place where you want them you have to run the power wire to the battery. Unplug the positive battery terminal and reattach with power wire in it. Do this with the fuse already in the fuse holder. Now once again run this wire along the floor of your vehicle to the trunk or wherever the subs are. Now with the ground wire, find a good place to ground within reach of the amp and ground it. Now you should be ready to fire up the amp. First hook up ground wire to the ground terminal on the amp so you don’t fry it. Then the power wire, remote wire, and AUX wires. Now attach the speaker wires to the positive and negative terminals on the box and then also match it to the amp.

GO MAKE SOME NOISE

Ok if everything was done correctly when you fire up your car you should hear the rumble of the subs and when a song comes on they should work! If not just read through these steps again and make sure you didn’t forget anything. Now all that’s left to do is tune the amp according to how you want it to sound. Once you get it down you can start doing crazy custom stuff like this:

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I'm into loud systems in cars and I'm pretty pumped because i just put my subs in my Blazer and it pounds. I found a website online that sells car audio stuff way cheap. Like a third of what you would pay at Best Buy. The website is called sonicelectronix.com. If your into that stuff check it out theres some crazy deals on there. I ordered a 2000 watt Hifonics amp off of the website for 230 dollars it would be like 900 at Best Buy. And I have two 12" Kicker CVR's and it sounds sick. I don't know why but I have always been into super loud systems. Something about them, I just love feeling the music. Here's a picture of what the sub woofers look like.

Second Post

The second task is to answer the following question; What did you do this past weekend that relates to the subject matter on which your blog will focus? Well, once again I don't have a main focus for the blog, but its just going to be about life basically. This past week i got myself into some trouble. So I thought I would write a little bit about that. I'll start my story about a year ago, when i started looking for a new car. I'm all about flashy stuff, and my dream car was a Lincoln Town Car, after about 8 months of saving up from my job, I was finally ready to buy my car. I found the exact car i wanted. Same color, same year, everything was perfect. On top of that i found it for pretty cheap considering what others were selling for, and I bought it right away. It looked identical to the one in this picture. And at about 6 a.m. Saturday morning, I ran into a retaining wall on a highway going about 70 and totaled the car. On top of that I was arrested for drinking and driving. Luckily it was not a DWI, I blew a .07. Thank god. I learned my lesson from this little scrap. I'm going to miss my baby.

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Q:If you could take your blog in any direction, what would it be? And why?
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