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if UPS damaged the XO, it shouldn't cost you anything to get it replaced. They should cover it up to $100, unless additional insurance was purchased.

Darthness wrote:My rca's are find and only a few weeks old, ran opposite of my power wire. I cut into the wires behind the deck because it would be a PITA to run wires through the doors. i'm giong to check with a local shop on that one though. I do have an amp powering the components, a Alpine MRP-F240 amp bridged to 100x2. I still need to get off my ass and check the crossover and see if thats te issue. the only possible interference i can think of is the power wire may cross the stock speaker wire, but somehow i doubt thats the cause.

throw a Ground Loop Isolator in there and see if it helps

My rca's are find and only a few weeks old, ran opposite of my power wire. I cut into the wires behind the deck because it would be a PITA to run wires through the doors. i'm giong to check with a local shop on that one though. I do have an amp powering the components, a Alpine MRP-F240 amp bridged to 100x2. I still need to get off my ass and check the crossover and see if thats te issue. the only possible interference i can think of is the power wire may cross the stock speaker wire, but somehow i doubt thats the cause.

oh, are you runing a sererate amp to push your speakers? or are they run off the HU? i was thinking you had some comps runing off an amp or something. If so you'd already have new wire you ran from the amp to the speakers, there wouldnt be any runing to the HU. If your geting noise from one side i'd say its some kind of interference. Do you have a good set of rcas? and make sure they havnt been damaged at all. Also make sure all your actual wire connections are done well. That way you have no loose wire touching anything.

i need get rid of my noise issue first.i'm giong to run negative wires off the battery instead of grounding to the trunk.

how do i ground the rca's? i'll check and see fi the damaged crossover is on the speaker that the nosie is coming from. noise only comes from one side of the car... so could that possibly be a speaker wire thing? i would assume it'd be soemthign with the factory speaker wiring if that was the case? if i can rule out the ground & crossover, and possibly wiring then i guess if its none of those, then i can assume either the amp or HU.

well, i have heard the difference between a set of installed components on pillars and doors, then moved to the kicks. wow what a difference. the bass is way more noticable and has much more of a cleaner sound and it gets alot more punchy. you can actualy feel it

excuse me... when UPS knocked that loose. I didn't have anything to do with it. Anyway, i guess i'll see what thats going to cost.

Maybe when you knocked that choke loose, it actually broke the thin wire that goes from the coil to the PCB, and the only thing making it look like it isn't broken, might be the wire insulation around the copper? Or if not to that extreme, the wire may well be weakened, or more importantly, a cold solder joint, which can appear fine at first glance, but completely hose an electrical connection.
I spent time back in the Eighties working in a little computer shop, where I did repair on old C64 and Atari products, and 9 times out of 10 when drives came in, it was a cold solder joint on the board, or a specific component that was prone to failure on some models.
If you had a handy can of freeze, a scope, a power supply, and a bit of know-how, you could test this whole theory, but all in all, it may be easier just to get that XO repaired. Remember, the crossover being run near the signal path wiring is one of easiest and most assured ways to induce noise in a system.

the part of the crossover is just hanging off. electrically it looks fine, wire is still attached to the board, the spool-thing is just came unglued. (sorry for for the terminology used, or lack of) basically just hanging loose :P i'm possibly leaning towards the head unit or amp as a problem because it seems to be coming out of one side of the car... i wish i could find a way to check that, but i have no other amp or cd player right now.

"somehow" would equate to re-solder the connections for the loose choke.