Aftermarket Radio Turns On BUT NO SOUND **SOLUTION**!!!

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Today I figured out why my radio did not have sound! I found the solution and it is working! I hope this helps people out!
Disclaimer: Make sure you properly wire your unit as per your radio's and car's instructions. Throwing a bunch of random wires together is bad. If you do what I did and just connect the amp wire to the power wire, then you will be fine. It should fix your problem. Just watch the video and have some patience :) It's only 4 minutes longer to help point out some important information in the beginning.
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[@JerryMiah]

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[@willgetslit3441]

Had a question I had this problem with my 2006 Pontiac G6 I’m trying put a aftermarket radio in ther everything comes on and lights up but no sound so should I try the same thing u did cus all my fuses are working as they should

[@JerryMiah]

@@willgetslit3441 worth a try

[@timskor6082]

@@willgetslit3441 how did it go?

[@AlexBonesJones]

I have a problem with this tutorial. I followed this step by step and ended up getting my balls stuck under the spare wheel in back of van. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement

[@JerryMiah]

@@AlexBonesJones you must be a special kind of special to do somthing like that....

[@HappyWifeAcres]

While you did cram a 30 second video into 7 minutes, you saved me a ton of time. I was ready to return a replacement radio because of no sound. I touched my AMP wire to power and there was the sound. Thank you!

[@JerryMiah]

Glad it worked. The extra time was necessary to save some amatures some grief by NOT cutting into their factory wires.

[@benpolt2344]

@@JerryMiah I agree. I almost made all the mistakes that you mentioned in the start but luckily didn't. Wish I saw your vid before either way tho just in case I had 🫡🫡

[@AdamPlatt-yo2wt]

Lmao

[@jacksonnorris9118]

​@@JerryMiahyeah well guess what? That's the first thing I did .lmao

[@FernandoCardenas-fr5dm]

I liked it and you know you can fast forward. He warned you

[@Dingus935]

7 hours of trouble shooting and wanting to return my radio and this man calls me out on my diy stuff and fixes my life. You're amazing and thank you

[@yoyobum9294]

Hahaha I was wondering myself.. usually I have a bad ground... But a ground would cause power up issues.. so I was stuck... Glad I searched because I was about to run an amp and say screw it. Because single din DVD are hard to find

[@45toughguy]

Bless you for putting this out there. I was almost ready to cut the plug off my amp to straight wire the speakers.(long story) all I had not done was hooking the blue/white to red power. Now my car stereo plays. Thank you for sharing!

[@dannyvaldes9023]

Thank you so much for making this video. My 94 gt mustang uses the same harness you got from walmart and i had the same exact issue. I did exactly what you told me and boom it works like a dream. Thank you for going out of your way to help people like me. Thanks again. I appreciate you helping others out.

[@fritzsalander6361]

I ran into this issue and got it fixed quick thanks to you. It makes so much sense too and I'm kicking myself for not realizing it sooner.

[@xgnxalphax2463]

Dude you're my savior I was fixing to make and wire up an entire harness for my radio cant believe I never thought of this

[@abbeyhoosiermusic]

Sent one radio back, ordered another, still no sound. After lots of frustration, hours of work and lots of sweat… this finally gave us an answer and a WORKING system!! Thank you!

[@brandonverduzco5836]

You saved me from spending hundreds of dollars. I couldn’t figure out why it had no sound. After watching your video it worked!!! Installed it on my c6 corvette. Thanks again!!

[@Jimmy-hr2tg]

Thank you for posting this video! I bought an aftermarket stereo for my 1999 F-150 and had installed it and no sound. This was a year ago! So I had no stereo for a long time and kept trying to figure it out, I knew it was the amp but there is nothing on the internet until I found your KZbin video. So again thank you!!!

[@conefani6723]

Dude you just helped us so much. We would’ve never thought to connect those wires and now we have a working radio

[@josephdehaven639]

I know I’m a year late but I was racking my brain for about two hours getting all kinds of mad this made everything work perfectly thank you very much what a pain in the ass never thought that little blue wire would come in handy you are the man

[@gregalvey4296]

Sir I can’t thank you enough I was going through the same thing with an aftermarket install tried everything except for what I learned from you it was one wire after 2 days going around in circles because of these yahoos on KZbin that post videos that are uninformative and repetitive of the one previous. my greatest gratitude and appreciation to you you’re an awesome stereo installer and again I appreciate everything

[@torialexis23]

OMF god thank you thank thank you lol I spent hours and days on KZbin searching for my problem and I think you fixed it for me thanks buddy. John bonacci in nj lol

[@stevegill4367]

I have been hooking stereo equipment up for 30 years and this is the first time I've come across this , went to hook up a Kenwood radio in my son's explorer and this definitely helped out thank you so much.

[@melodiemixon7850]

3 minutes into this video and I already got my problem figured out! Thanks so much!! No one else knew what they were doing and then I found your video!!

[@mrmotormouth7593]

Bloody legend, was so confused scouring long drawn out videos like you, found this video and fixed it immediately. Cheers all the way from Australia mate 👍

[@Salvadorean11thst]

YOURE A LIFE SAVER THANK YOU!! I was about to return my new radio, dash kit, and harness. You’re the best

[@fossum2062]

My god you are a life saviour! Had the exact same issue on my 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, and this solved it for my in an instant! Thank you so much!!

[@ATGamerAT]

This was a LIFE SAVER, thank you SO FREAKING MUCH BUCK2013, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All my connections were solid and I couldn't figure out why no sound was coming out, was guessing it had to do with my amp not getting a connection was well, you literally solved it so easily for me, MUCH LOVE, BLESSINGS AND PEACE!!!!

[@doing_my_thing]

Very helpful, this solved the problem with my stereo that i've been stumped by for months. also it helps to make sure your grounded or else you wont even get power in the first place

[@allaroundtrailerrepair484]

Thanks for your help!!!! I had sound but very weak. Then hooked the wire up! And bam!!! Jamming away now!

[@The.holy.trenity_]

thank you king! almost had to spend 250 for a 1 wire fix😂

[@jocelynnconway439]

My dad and I are so happy you posted this! You saved us the hassle! He had everything right except that! Thank you so much!

[@christyann7370]

I have no idea how to fix car audio components BUT I literally took that blue stripe wire, connected it to the reds and BOOM sound!!!!!! This is an awesome video!! Thank You for posting it!!!!

[@familylaux]

Yes! Worked for my 2005 impala. Thank you so much.

[@Laboro1]

Hey man, cool video... but just FYI, Power Antenna (blue) and Remote (blue white) are both just 12v outputs. If your radio harness doesn't have one or the other, it would be preferable to hook both the vehicle harnesses blue & blue white to the radios single blue wire. The only difference from what you recommend here is that the red, 12v acc, is an input to the radio. So if the fuse blew on the radio, the amp would still get power, and that is not ideal.

[@ganktuh]

theres my answer

[@oscaramartinez3]

I appreciate your video, last weekend I was updating my cassette player to a double din radio and I had power on my radio but not sound. After searching KZbin, I saw your video and it was so clear and simple that you solved my problem. Thank you, I was almost giving up.

[@MirandaZorn2003]

Thank you ! I was getting super frustrated until I found your video. I double checked my speaker wire connections wayyyy to many times. Again , thank you.

[@tylerfrench8067]

Thank you so much! Without this video I wouldn't have been able to put in my new radio. Thanks man!

[@randyrussell4794]

I spent hours searching for the right answer. Took the new head unit out checked the checked and rewired the harness multiple times. Even got into the factory amp. Once I got the right combination of words together to get to your video, hours of frustration became seconds to fix and a long time of listening pleasure. Thanks much for your post.

[@JerryMiah]

I'm glad it helped!

[@user-fk4lq4sx5b]

Saved my sanity, such a straight forward fix. I HATE electrical with a burning passion, did mention I hate car electrical? I could not figure out what was going on until I found this video. Thank you!

[@michaelward841]

Thanks Buck! I have a 2011 Jeep Rubicon and swapped out factory radio for Sony XAV-AX1000 and got no sound!! Couldn't figure it out til I found your video. Worked like a charm. Excellent!

[@MrSlinginmac14]

Were you experiencing no sound at all? I just put in a stereo and I have sound in the radio mode but not the Bluetooth or CD mode.

[@phannguyen2629]

You just save me a whole lot of trouble and headache. Thank you

[@wilsongonzalez8753]

Hello there Buck, I would like to thank you for the video. I watched many videos and your was the only one that explained very simple and exactly what I was looking for...the blue wire with line attached to the red wires for speaker sound. I was so happy to resolve the problem and fixed. Good luck to you Sir and keep up the good work. From Puerto Rico WG (US Army Retired/Disable Veteran).

[@TheReasonableGentleman]

Thank you so much for this fix! Been racking my brain and then I realized I had the factory amplifier to deal with 🙏🏻

[@dillonberry1534]

This is the first video I watched after having this problem and it solved it immediately. Thanks for the great video👍

[@idontknowanythingaboutcars896]

MANY THANKS!!!!!! I got stuck trying to figure it out. I got the stock wiring set up not realizing that my ranger has amp! Thank you Dude!

[@JerryMiah]

Not necessary but glad it helped lol. But I do have a patron page and a one time donation link in the description down below if you wanted to. The donation link goes through my twitch page and into paypal. Or the patreon pledge is just a monthly donation of whatever amount you want. And can be cancelled any time. But like I said it's not necessary :)

[@StarkeEnterprises]

Long and drawn out BUT you explained it well. You taught the logic and reasoning behind it and that is great for those that enjoy extra info such as I. Thank you.

[@JerryMiah]

I'm glad someone FINALLY appreciates why I made it a little longer than it needed to be :)

[@jdvit5863]

Exactly what I needed thank you for posting!

[@lucylulu4192]

Such a big help! Me and my bf have been breaking our heads with this radio for weeks now and thanks to your video we finally got sound! Thank you so so much !

[@canalganbiarra1999]

Its been a long day trying to solve this ting !!! Omg 😱 i can’t tank u enough!❤️

[@JerryMiah]

No problem 😊

[@lynndalehall111929]

Thanks rewired, tested fuses and then decided to look on the KZbin and found what you did. Man that took care of the problem. Thanks great job on the video.

[@TimLucasdesign]

This saved me from returning a new stereo. Thank you SO MUCH!!

[@edgarestrada6814]

You literally saved my ass, a Best Buy worker told us all the wrong things and you helped fix it. Appreciate you!

[@yondalecoston1631]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. Much appreciated on this post. 2011 Legacy with factory amp. I was about to pay to have it done because I could not figure this out. Thanks again!!

[@paularietta6744]

Thank you so much! This fixed our issue of having radio power but no sound. In my case we were upgrading my brother's 2001 Pontiac Grand Am with a Pioneer AVH-X2800BS. The Axxess LC-GMRC-01 adapter kit we used didn't say anything about needing to power the the blue/white wire, but in reviewing the car's pin diagram, sure enough this controlled the car amplifier. Don't know how were would have figured that out without your video.

[@wendellreynolds3037]

Man. You just don't know how much you helped me.....Thank you Sir 😊.

[@1967elmo]

thank you soo much, you just save me $$ & time . i appreciate you taking time to make this video for me 🛐

[@JerryMiah]

no problem!

[@pusher7]

OMG!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!! Factory AMP? What? YEP!!!! I'm so happy. It's been a long day, but you just made it so I can sleep tonight.

[@AliAuto101]

I know that feeling when you spend the whole day working on something and not finish it 😂🤣🤣 then you tube video show you how to do it ✌👍

[@setheddy7517]

Thank you sooooo much. You saved me so much time and sooooo much hassle. Excellent job!!!!!

[@kennethingle2235]

Thank you sooooooo much!!! You saved me so much frustration!!!! I can’t thank you enough!

[@mr.noneofyourbusiness3234]

WOW bro, Thanks a milli!! I was stuck, my install was on an 07 GMC envoy going to a JVC with the "radio pro3" adapter and this worked. Blue striped with white coming from the serial adapter wired into the red power and BOOM! Thanks again!

[@JerryMiah]

Glad I could help

[@guccigreatsquad_4202]

@@JerryMiah I get no power to my radio and it’s brand new the wires have power going to then they been tested but radio don’t work nor my old one now and fuses are all good I’ve checked a million times I have a 1999 Mercury mountaineer aka ford explorer lol

[@ncdogg425]

Thanks man we took the radio back thinking it was defected😂

[@secondhandrc7024]

Thanks Buck!!! Another satisfied customer!!!😜🤙 I’ve replaced many radios and never ran across this!!! Now I’m rockin again!!! Thanks again 😁

[@joymoses4042]

OMG. Thank you sooo much!!! Been fighting with this for over a week now!! Thank you!!

[@MrIrfaan24]

You seriously saved me hours of time. Literal saver. Thanks bud! I was about to give up.

[@malcolmhines3386]

M

[@girlnm]

You’re the man!!! Thank you 🙏

[@imaxteller]

My man! You saved me so much time!! I spent 2 hours in the loop and clueless

[@barbaraferguson5616]

This video is the best and most simple that Ive seen on line. Being a female, Im gonna attempt to install a new stereo in my 02 Jeep Wrangler. Ive has this Stereo forever but couldnt figure out the amp issue, watched many videos and still couldnt get it. Your video was simple and allowed me to finally hook up a much needed radio. Thanks so much, I see this was done 2 years or so ago. But am still wondering why the hookup yo the sub has 4 wires on it, and thats coming out the harness, if your still on here, hope you can answer this for me. Next venture with my Jeep, is all new speakers and sub etc etc.... anyway, thanks and video was perfect.

[@joshledezma1996]

Bro thank you, seriously thank you I struggled for the last hour and thanks to this I got it so thanks again

[@JerryMiah]

Glad it helped!

[@alerumba]

thank you!! i love you dude! jaja lol.... i was getting crazy!

[@ChristinaSlagle]

Thank you thank you thank you! I triple checked all my wires, multiple web sites, and nothing mentioned this! I have a 2005 Chevy Tahoe, and this was the issue! Thank you so much for sharing! I've been trying for 2 days to figure it out!

[@ljamar4216]

Was about to replace my head unit and then I saw this video. Double checked the blue wire with the white stripe and voila, all was right again. Thank you!!!

[@acura4life988]

Thanks bruh. I had same issue

[@7asson1999]

Hello!! I tried that on my 2010 Ford Fusion and it didn’t work for me! Any idea?!

[@xxphantomlord_xxplaystatio5284]

Thank you so much for uploading this man, it helped me out a lot. You've earned my subscription good sir.

[@thatonefoosaul]

Thank you so much brother I’ve never come across this issue in any other radios I’ve done, still helping people 4 years later!

[@aaroncupp4793]

My man, 4 hours. 4 f*ckin hours I've been searching for this solution! I knew the problem was due to my factory amp but for some reason just hooking the factory power amp wire to a relay power cable never once crossed my mind. YOU SIR ARE A FUCKIN GOD On a side note: if you're married or dating then you tell you significant other to give you some dome bc you earned that shit. You can tell her/him (2020 who knows anymore) Aaron Cupp said so damn it!

[@JerryMiah]

Glad it helped. I'm single :(

[@deanaellis8231]

😂😂😂 iktr

[@ashemess]

Just tried this, I can confirm it works

[@captdsmith]

Thank you - I looked at the blue and white wire and saw amp written on it (1995 F150) I suspected it had something to do with why my radio wasn't working but I would have never figured out what you explained. Soooo easy---- Many thanks!!

[@garice6910]

THANK YOU. So satisfying, very much appreciated.

[@JerryMiah]

Thank you all for taking the time to watch this video! It means the world to me, as it is my most popular video on the channel with over 1/2 a million views! I am so glad I was able to help a majority of the people coming to seek help with this issue. Thank you all and God Bless!

[@Hunt4Yoshi]

If you still have this explorer, make sure you put a 12v to 5v adapter for your amp since ford uses 5v on theor factory amps, if your speakers have started to pop on startup, this is why

[@Arthur-rf1hi]

Thank YOU!!

[@scottnoel8732]

Thank you very much this is by far the most helpful video I have ever found.. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong

[@kalebgaul4963]

Is this only for ford vehicles I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee and I have the amp wire (which is this small yellow with a blue stripe) and another wire that’s big with a circle of prongs and one in the center, and I’m having this problem my radio turns on but doesn’t put out sound, and I wanted to know if this solution works for me

[@JerryMiah]

@@kalebgaul4963 no. this should apply to any vehicle you are having trouble with.

[@alexysgonzalez7130]

I don't have the blue and with wire, I just have solid blue what I am supposed to do now?

[@22pimpin1]

Same here !!

[@nadizahadi1183]

Anybody knows now?

[@erekmowbray855]

I also have this same problem on the dual double din I recently bought for my 05 Chrysler 300

[@Kangaroojack1986]

Just touch the blue wires together to see if you get sound with everything plugged in. On the radio harness it said power antenna/amp and the vehicle harness it said power Antenna. I had to connect those wires.

[@vancequichocho5474]

Thank you man you a life saver I couldn’t figure it out without you I was going to give up and bring it in to get hooked up ..!!

[@MrBIGGERBOSS]

THIS SAVED ME SO MUCH TIME AND HEADACHE! It fixed my issue! Thank you!!!!

[@juniortapafua7287]

did the speakers work at first and then shut off on after? My radio has power but speakers all went out while I was driving.

[@JerryMiah]

No I didnt have any sound until I powered the amplifier

[@amonronin8759]

Either speaker grounded or factory amp failer....pull radio out get a test speaker and hook it up directly on the radio and see if you have sound....if you do then bad amp if not cut the ground on each speaker wire at the radio and see if sound comes on if it does then its a speaker ground short.

[@oohhshhiittto9977]

@@amonronin8759 Hello

[@jjb1558]

Just hooked up stereo and still have no sound, I connected blue/white wire as you said..... Still no sound

[@tonyshaw6726]

Yeah I have the same problem

[@joshuabrisson8860]

Yep me too no sound

[@maruitarro9629]

Me too! Please help!

[@joshuabrisson8860]

You have to bypass the amp in the Car

[@joemellon7182]

Me too

[@cycler2004]

OMG!!! Thank you for sharing. You're awesome!!! My stereo sounds great!

[@walshncars]

Thank you SO much, I want you to know that still to this day people are seeing this and finding it helpful. My kit came with fixed ends and it looked like it was genuinely supposed to be antenna wires for the radio. After researching due to being my first install your video got my audio back up and running. Thank you.

[@michaelcooper834]

My head unit plays music when power on but after 10-20 minuets after driving it cuts out with no sound. Any idea what’s wrong?

[@christianwilliams3220]

Same problem

[@christianwilliams3220]

Fixed it yet

[@Bigg_Al.]

Same man fucking same

[@imaginedp5482]

Please tell me you fixed this man🤦🏼‍♂️

[@honesty4eva]

I TRIED THIS I THINK MY RADIO MIGHT BE BAD BUT IT COMES ON I HERE A POP SOUND FROM THE SPEAKER THEN IT GETS HOT NO VOLUME😪 AT THIS POINT I FEEL LIKE GIVING UP CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE

[@angie-yq4jd]

SAME 😭

[@iindium49]

Same reason I'm here.

[@joe5229]

You're video was a life saver for sure! We tried everything we could think of to get the speakers to work, except what you did. Thank you so much for posting this video. Speakers work awesome now!

[@luismarquez659]

Best video. I was giving up till I found this video.. thank you very much

[@moparmurderer]

I just did this on my 02 stratus coupe, and no luck. Still power, and no sound. Any other ideas,

[@moparmurderer]

I figured mine out. In my case, there was another white/black wire that needed power. I tied it into the red "key on" power wire. Now i have sound

[@gatlincole6384]

I have a GM, Cadillac Escalade and ran into the exact same problem. This was freaking it. You saved the day. Was going insane after looking over the harness for an hour backtracking. Forgot to connect the amp wire for the factory system… whoops! Thanks again!

[@bobtrevorah2305]

I re-ordered another harness kit for my '98 Dakota thinking it was bad. Same thing (obviously!) with the new harness. Then I found your video. Problem solved. You're awesome! Thanks for posting this!

[@garymcnemar6620]

Thank you, so much! I was stressing so bad. Now I'm getting sound!!! You're awesome Bro!!!

[@-XaviM]

I LOVE YOU, I had two hours not knowing what was going on and not knowing where that blue cable was going and I was thinking about taking it to the stalk and I didn't want to spend money because everything else worked well, until I saw your video and now the audio sounds great, you're the best

[@nycsrenagade8385]

🤣🤣 the best bro I've been scratching my head for 20min until I found your video

[@hexxappeal1737]

I have a 99 grand jeep Cherokee Laredo that has the premium sound system so it has a stock amplifier and I try to add an additional amplifier and a aftermarket head unit so I could power a sub separately as well and that was about a month long process. I couldn’t find anything anywhere online or KZbin to tell me how to fix the problem I had no power to the sub, I even called the company who provided the harnesses and they had no idea what I was talking about. I almost took the damn car to a jeep dealership and then a buddy of mine was tinkering around with me and we did the same thing and hooked up the three wires together then BOOM WOMP WOMP WOMP. Cool video man I was thinking about doing the same thing for people struggling with this

[@MichaelNAbele]

I'm buying a 2000 Pontiac from a good friend and I got his radio to light up but no sound cane out. Apparently the past owners that had it just used a Bluetooth speaker in the car. ( past owners: the sellers family). I will try this I hope it works thank u. It is hard to find videos and information on specific things in life so thank u for making it a little easier sir thank you 😁

[@gfunkkowboy]

Thank you so much I lost so much sleep over this I just bought and had a new radio installed and couldn't and wouldn't think it will be the wiring because it was done by a company installation but I did what you said anyway and took the radio out and showing up found wire and connected it to the blue wire and it works thank you alot God Bless America

[@cipheratwolf3436]

Thank you sir i was having trouble with my CHEVY aftermarket radio and your video helped me and my brother fix it we just want to thank you sir.

[@meagannoblet9371]

Thank you for this!!! I thought I would never figure this out!!!

[@DuatyGeb]

well done bud! saved me tons of time and energy!

[@narwhalsking3472]

dude you are a jedi... the only straight to the point and 100% correct and accurate how to info source ive found in 2months time.. thanks dude...

[@johnfischer1708]

I was getting 50% success with having sound on my C6 with the PAC interface. Strangely if I opened the door when it didn't work, it would immediately start working. I tried this solution and so far a dozen startups and it's working every single time.

[@rogerbrandt6678]

Sat here for the last 6 hours touched my blue wire to blue wire bam, thank you sir, other places I’ve looked said blue wire is for power antenna, thanks from Chestermere alberta.

[@novabeach11]

Thank you so much for sharing this, I don't know what was making the process not work but you sir made it work.

[@JerryMiah]

Glad it helped