Your welcome! Best way to find speaker wires in a wire harness is they are usually twisted together. Not sure the reason they do it. But it seems to be a standard. I'm ready to add a second box lol

@@itsallgooddan thank you so much

So glad it helped! Enjoy the process! I'm actually thinking about adding a second one in the near future myself.

So how the best way to ground to ground the subs to the aluminum frame?

I ground it to the seatbelt latch bolts. It ground just fine so it must be hitting something not aluminum.

That's a bummer that it went out. Thanks for watching

Greatly appreciate the information.

Glad it helped!

I'm not sure if you absolutely have to go to both sides. Give it a try with only one side. If the bass hits just fine then I would say your good to go. Unfortunately I'm not a pro with this stuff so I'm not sure of there is a technical reason for one way or the other. It was easy enough for me to do it so I just did both.

Just get a generic sub wiring kit from Walmart or even online. It should come with. Power, ground, remote, and rca cables

Great questions!!! I believe the box would not fit behind the seat unless I took out the paneling. As for the power cable I did end up re-running it but not through the frame. But that is a great idea for sure!

Plug and play for sure. Didn't do any programming at all

I never changed it from what it was set at from factory. I just looked at it and it's on "low" and it's always sounded good to me. But I'm curious now. So I'm going to run it on "high" for a bit and see

Did you guys ever find out? I’m about to run my wires for my set up and not sure if the speakers I’m tapping into are high frequency or low. Do you guys know??

Thanks a bunch. Welcome. Appreciate the support.

You could yes. Thats more wires to run. Plus taking your head unit out of the dash. Doable but more work. I have the stock head unit so i wasn't going to take it all apart and hope there was an RCA slot. Speaker wires also double as the remote to tell the sub to turn on and off too. So it just made more sense for me to do it this way. Less wiring less stuff to take apart. And less work when i sell the truck and need to take the sub out.

@@itsallgooddan Would rca cable double as a turn on for the sub?

@@Loading321 yes that is what i did. There is a setting on the amp/sub box. To use rca as the remote wire. I think thats what your asking

Is there an inline fuse along the power cable that might be missing or bad? Verify that the switches are all in the correct position as well. Lastly if you used a speaker wire as the "remote" turn on, some vehicles the car has to be turned on all the way for that to work. Not just in acc mode. Only other thing I can suggest is checking the manufacturer information for possible causes.

@@itsallgooddan checked the fuses and they are all good, doesn’t work when the vehicle is on but it’s got power, it does make a sound when you flip a switch so I know it’s working, only thing I can think would be the wiring, did you hook it up to both the left and right side for the speaker wires? I only hooked it up to the right side as I was reading the comments and someone suggested that it might work with only being hooked up to one side but might not be the case,

@@uni3831what was the problem

@@luxyclips9559 went a different route and just bought a harness for the headunit that has rca input, costed about 30cad then ran new wires to the sub and it worked, wouldve saved me so much time had i known about the harness

100% honesty, I have no clue how that system works at all. If I could find the install instructions from the amp/sub box I could confirm. But I think I remember reading a part that was specific for an install with a factory amp. Crutchfield customer service was very fast at responding. So maybe a good idea to check with them. Sorry I can't help more.

I can. Im not so sure the camera audio is going to be make it sound decent at all. I'm filming my next video later today(thursday). So I will toss it in there near the beginning for ya. .

Correct

Your right I didn't. Wouldn't have sounded good through a gooro either. Guess you will never know. But I can say it surely workes. And still does to this day.

Im guessing your talking putting this in the trunk of a regular sedan style car? If so then you should get the same effect. You may have to play with the control dials on the amp as you will have a section of metal between you and the sub(backseat) but this thing puts out some pretty damn good bass so you will still be able to feel/hear the bass with ease. Its not going to shatter windows. But you will still be able to notice it.

I'm not sure. I had changed out the stock door speakers before I did this sub install. I'm going to guess no. Because the speaker wires are just being used for a remote. They are tapped in. Not the sub inbetween head unit and speakers. If that makes sense. Sorry not a pro so I might be wrong.

It turns on when the doors open yes. But if there is no sound going to the speaks it shuts right back off. Even if the truck is running but i have the volume on 0, the amp stays off. Only when i turn the sound up will it then turn on. This might be different for other vehicles depending on what the vehicle does with speaks when doors are opened.

Does it give a thud Everytime it turns off and on?

@@jers7656 no not any sound or thud at all (unless your music is high from the last time it was on i supose) but the turn on does not cause aby sound or vibration. I can just tell it turns on because it lights up from the indicator light

Too add on in the manual the blinking red light indicates that there is either a short or the connections to your speaker wire might be bad but what was interesting was when I used my volt meter to the + and - on the connector piece it was saying I was getting 12volts and it was no disturbance which is weird that the speaker wouldn’t stay turned on even without the speaker connector plugged in

Sooner the better but Feel free to get back to me whenever you like, thanks @ItsAllGoodDan

@@aussiepowell2698 that's a very interesting issue. I have not had that issue as of yet. I know when I have no sound going through speakers the sub will turn off. Even if i turn volume all the way to zero. Then when music comes back on it will take a second but the sub will turn back on. Do you have the toggle set to use the audio as the remote?

@@itsallgooddan yeah I tried messing with that but it didn’t seem to be the issue, I left it on audio. I called Rockfords help center and they said to return the speaker and swap the new one out into the harness but we’ll see

@@aussiepowell2698 glad they got you squared away. Maybe it's just a defect inside the amp part of box.

Absolutely. Without fail. And its fairly small in footprint. So it wouldn't take up as much space as your traditional sub box.

ItsAllGoodDan thanks! That’s all I needed I will buy one for the mini.

@@chuckchuck8643 Thats very exciting!! My favorite part was the ease of wiring it up. Because of the lack of RCAs needed because of the adaptor included with it. Litterally just had to tap into the speaker wires, add power, and ground. And done. No remote. No inverter. Super easy and none confusing.

ItsAllGoodDan finally was able to hook it up and you weren’t wrong! Man, thanks it sounds amazing in the Mini Cooper. The only thing is, that when I turn off the car the speaker keeps going, annoyingly. I don’t know what it is. And I used the hi input, to the 6by9s.

@@chuckchuck8643thats awesome to hear. Im sure with the shape of that car it acts as a enclosed box too so you probably get even better sound then mine hmm. In my truck the speakers will stay on until i open the door then they shut off. Some cars i think its when the lock button is hit.

For some odd reason the label on the wire is in MM. Shows 8.6mm. I tried to Google it to convert it to gauge and I get mixed information. Go to my bio and send me an email directly and I can send you the screen shot of exactly what I bought. Might help you a bit more.

No I did not. I tapped right into the rear door factory speaker wires in the center pillar. Brought those straight back to the adaptor that the sub/amp kit came with. Super simple. Sounds great.

If you need more indept instructions on this specific install with this sub/amp kit email me. Email is in bio thing. I can type out a better explanation with pictures that way

@@itsallgooddan thank you so much!!

@@Kobepetter anytime!!

@@itsallgooddan I wanted more info via email on your install but don't see one.

It sounds amazing. It is the perfect size and the perfect bass level for this truck. Its noticeable when you have it up. But with the turn knob up front you can easily turn it down if you want.

You don't have too. You could fid a different spot for the remote turn on. And you could take the RCA's all the way to the head unit.

Yeah if i take the rca all the way to the stereo it should work right

@Chris-Samuel-Cesar yes I believe it should work the same. Just have to be sure you put the dial on the Sud box for the setting that uses the rca as remote.

Ok thanks appreciated..

Hey bud i cant get the sub to turn on i ran the power cord to battery and ground got it from under my seat and it dnt turn on what goes on the middle of the black block next to the ground and power??

The sub speaker? It is already inside of the black box.

I meant what is the rca cables hooked up too???

@Mr T sorry. yes I did forget to include the part of connecting the RCA straight to the speaker wires. I showed the wires in the door frame, just not the actual connecting part. When you get into the door piller between the front and rear seats, you will see 1 wire harness. Easily split the caseing around it. You will see two wires twisted together. They are the speaker wires. I just tapped into them directly right here instead of going all the way to the head unit(being factory head unit that seemed like it could be a mess to do) I took the connecter off one end of the RCA cable. Which gave me two wires. I connected those to the speaker wires above. I tested by turning music to make sur ethe sound was right and that i didnt have the wrong rca wire to speaker wire. If that makes sense, Tape back up the harness after you know the sound is right. Rca complete. Also this Amp/sub kit uses the speaker/rca power as the "remote" so no need to run a separate remote. Unless you want to.

@@itsallgooddan Hi Dan hope all is well, quick question when you cut one end of the rca cable off and you get 2 wires, does it matter which wire goes with which of the twisted wires in my f150. Just wondering if it should work no matter what or if you need to flip flop them out.Thanks feel free to get back with me whenever you like.

@@sealdsatsuma778 I don't recall which one exactly. It was a while ago lol. I believe I left it exposed and turned everything on. Then made sure there was sound coming out. Then I finished the speaker wire connection. That way if it was wrong I could just flop them. Without going back and watching the whole video, I believe the wire diagram showed which one was positive and which was. negative.

I believe it was the 4gauge. I will have to check again during daylight

Sorry Ray. I though I had come on and answered your question better. I looked at the wire and it is showing 8.6mm. Not sure why it's not in gauge.

@@itsallgooddan no worries thanks for replying 🙌🏽

@@itsallgooddan 8.6mm is 8AWG . 4AWG is just over 20mm

Thank you so much for watching! Have a blessed day

how so?

The sub should come with it. If you need a replacement, I would day contact Rockford Fosgate, or maybe even Crutchfield. They tend to have stuff like that.