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lol. ok so i was hooking up my first amp yay to my front speakers. so i started new with wiring the whole damn car (first time)

so amp everything wired. i know my wiring perfect cause i jsut do a lot of it lol

so i ground and power the amp..

nothing
it lights up and such.. kinda. i get red protection lamp

so to me. i think i ****ed it up.
J187 tells me it may be grounding threw the rca's which is enough to light some led's

so anway. tonight on my way home i pop the trunk and detach my ground. i try it in a few places. one gives me a spark. so i knew thats wut it was

so i ram the lil basterd into the latch of my upper trunk part. turn on the system and it works.. now i need to find a proper ground

im an idiot for not testing my grounds

but it woorks only one major **** up for my first time

 
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Congrats.. by the way i'm the one who said it could be grounding through the RCAs you ****. j/k But at least you have it working now and you have good tunes now

 
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You can ground anywhere in your trunk. You need to sand off the paint, otherwise it will not ground. Did you try to ground somewhere with paint on it before?? or now??

 
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when I first threw a sub in my car (just to have SOME bass) I grounded the amp to the screw pole thing that holds the spare tire steady. g-h-e-t-t-o but it worked.

 
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haha sorry. sorry. dark gets the credit

j187 had the same idea. if orgot u said it first

but it works. now come tomorow int he light i need to remount the wire properly. and playw ith settings

also. i had my back seats all out. theres a silver metal plate under the seats in the middle. i lifted a screw and mounted the ground i ASSUMED that would be a good ground.. nope

 
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Usually anyplace where there's double metal in the back or where there's spot welds, you can ground there. Just kind of "landmarks" so to speak, to look for when grounding.

 
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at least now you know u will never come to the same problem again or something similar. ppl learn by own mistakes (like me).

 
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Usually anywhere on the trunk is coo, thats what I did in my civic. And dont trip, as jttegx said your gonna learn by your mistakes

 
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I used an all copper hex-screwdown clamp from a electric pole and mounted it on the rear-passenger side seatbelt bolt. It worked awesome and the wire path is pretty short.

 
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Where to ground? Anywhere you feel like scraping, sanding, whatever, removing teh paint and running a sheetmetal screw in there. Make sure you remove all paint. Another option is to go back to the rear (near the latch) of the trunk. Take out the plastic piece. You should see a green ground bolt with about 6 wires attached to it. You can ground on that without having to drill a new hole. There are hundreds of options.

 
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If you do sand away the paint, screw your connector over the bare metal and then hit it with a quick coat of primer so it doesn't rust.

 
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haha i have it grounded. not having a prbolem finding grounds. i jsut assumed wut i had for a ground worked as it was a long screw on bare metal :|

 
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You want to keep your ground wire as short as possible, usually less than 2ft is the preferred lenght. Bolt it down good to bare metal and you should be good to go.



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