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So good news, the wires were fine as was the harness, turns out the problem was the fuse for constant 12 volt was deader then dead, and the previous owner tried to "fix" it by wrapping some copper wire around the fuse prongs Yeah so we replaced the constant power fuse (as well as the acces...

What part numbers for the factory harnesses would you recommend for my specific vehicle if I end up having to go that route? As the harness that provides power and such to the factory radio is still physically there and all the wires appear to be hooked up right, it's the speaker harness that was cu...

Hi, Welcome to the forum. Wow something is really not right there, or I didn't read it right. So you're saying the head unit will power up, if you apply 12V to the speaker wires off the harness? Something like that would normally fry a deck pretty quick. I think we need to do some testing out of th...

If I hook everything up correctly it will not power on, however if I touch both the positive and negative of say the front left speaker wire from the head units harness to the accessory wire while it's hooked up (so the radio would also still have its accessory wire hooked up to the car as well, I'm...

Anyone? I'd at least like some help figuring out the first issue, I can likely figure the rest out on my own after that since the first issue likely makes it not so easy to test and fix the others

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Now this may be a stupid question, but did you remember to run the android auto app on your phone?

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Hi, so as the subject says,I'm installing a new head unit in a '98 expedition EB with the mach audio system, and I've run into a few problems #1 and the one I want to fix first: the head unit will not power on UNLESS I touch a pair of speaker wires from the head units harness to the accessory power ...