PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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just read through there is a pic in my garage of where I wired mine through (BeArDy requested it so left it in my garage) but you;ve done that bit now! LOL
Does your headunit not have a remote out wire?? If not, I just hooked mine upto the live of the fagh lighter, did the job good 
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Mav 3000
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Registered: 16th Aug 01
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I found the power cable so hard to get through the grommet (without puling the grommet through the car!) I ended up threading a bit of thin wire through the cable, loopint it back - then pulling the thin wire though, which in turn pulled the fat wire through. Nightmare!
Check your fuse on the power lead isn't blown
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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check that the remote line is working, by wacking a volt meter between the remote lead and ground. It should read 12v @ 500mA 
Also do the same on the power to see if there is power going to the amp
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AndyW
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
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it dont work i give up!
amp can go back in the cupboard
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tainboy
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Don't mean to butt in, butttttttt also check you haven't got two speaker wires touching as they will automatically cut any out put (preouts and speakers) from the head unit.
What you need going to your amp are;
power from the battery (with a big bugger fuse),
remote from your head unit to tell the amp to switch on (or an ignition positive will do but not 100% good),
pre-out that carries the sound signal from the head unit to your amp (pull this down the other side of the car from all power leads to cut out interference)
and that's it (you need speaker cable going out of the amp to the sub though!!!!
Hope this helps gadge.
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James@CCC
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Registered: 10th Nov 03
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ok, realise this sounds silly, but hoe well
you said you were using the standard vauxhall wires on the aftermarket headunit. The standard vauxhall wires are gay colours, and the blue wire is actually the front passenger speaker! i made this mistake ages ago when i was first playing around.
I cant remember what colour you are after, but i can find out if u need
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the_legend_of_yrag
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Registered: 7th Jul 03
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look in headunit manual and wire diagrams should tell you where to put remote wire into headunit in there
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AndyW
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
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quote:
Originally posted by corser
ok, realise this sounds silly, but hoe well
you said you were using the standard vauxhall wires on the aftermarket headunit. The standard vauxhall wires are gay colours, and the blue wire is actually the front passenger speaker! i made this mistake ages ago when i was first playing around.
I cant remember what colour you are after, but i can find out if u need
yup i found this out lol after cuttin the blue wire!! 
please mate if u cud find out n help would be very grateful!
everything is setup exactly how every1 else has said!
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James@CCC
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Registered: 10th Nov 03
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hmmmmmmmmmmmm, i think its the red/grey wire, but dont quote me on that. It should be the wire you cut, or should cut, to get your mfd to show you the date insted of nothing
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AndyW
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i really wanna know so i can get this sorted please people!
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James@CCC
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well you can either try the red/grey wire as i think it is, or you can get out your headunit instruction manual and work it out. Whichever pin would go towards the blue wire on the wire loom they supplied will be the remote. Then work out which colour wire this is on the vauxhall loom.
not too tircky now mate, youve done the hard parts
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IntaCepta
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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LOL!
i was also having headaches with grommets today.
spent half an our looking for the grommet on my mates astra, then logged onto astra-sport.co.uk forum to find out there isn't one!!
instead i had to drill a hole thru.
started 1pm finished 6pm,
finally got all the cabling done,
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AndyW
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
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ill av to av another go tomoro! fuckin thing well started to piss me off tho lol
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