Installing components and I'm stumped.

This evening, I got started installing my new components. I took apart only the driver side front to begin with. I followed the straight foward directions, but no sound is coming from them. It has something to do with the tweeter connection. I unplugged the aftermarket and plugged the factory door woofer and tweeter to it's factory plug and it plays. Why not my Alpines?

 

Are you installing to run off the Head Unit?

Did you use the crossover?

Running new wires or using the stock?

 

Yes, I'm running them off the HU.
I did use the crossover.
I'm using the stock wires with a wiring harness.

 

I have the tweeter and woofer hooked up to where it's supposed to on the crossover. I have the amp( in my case the headunit) hooked up behind the woofer. Polarity is correct. I'm also wondering if the factory tweeter plug is left just hanging there since it's not used or do I need to do something with it?

 

Your head unit needs to be connected to the input of the crossover. Your last post makes it sound like you connected it to the woofer of your component set. I would think you'd still hear something from the woofer though.

 

Forgive me if you already know this, but...

The tweeter connection has 4 wires. Two come from the OEM radio to the connector and on to the tweeter. The other two simply join between connector and tweeter only to return to the woofer. It makes no sense to me why they did it this way but it's probably about ease of assembly at the factory.

So, if you have made connections at the 4-place tweeter connector, it's possible you are using the set that goes to the woofer and is not connected unless the tweeter is in place. If you made connection to the woofer wires directly they don't connect at all without the tweeter in place.

 

yup what he said. i just did mine bro and i used the stock wiring, i cut the tape around the wires in the door enough so that i could seperate the speaker wires and then it was easier to see what was going on

 

Got it working. I used the stock tweeter wires to hook up the new one. I don't know why I thought it would work by just using the crossover. This is the first vehicle that I've done aftermarket audio since 1998. So yeah, it's been a while. Next weekend, the amp goes in.

Thanks, fellas.

 

I have the same problem, tried x over (CTX-C4) and no work, I'll try what u did, what wires did u use from stock tweeter harnes??

 

What alpine speakers did you get? Anything in the rear?