seve12345

i got a sub with an amp the sub is a alpine SWS-1240 and the amp is a Alpine mrv-100m. I need to buy a car deck and i was wondering if i need to find a match with the amp that i have. One of my friends told me i need to find the right deck with the right # of watts and i didnt think so so do i? and i also wanted to know what kind of wire do i need. do i need to rewire my whole car so someone sayed or not because it is a 1993 does that mean i need to rewire my whole car?

Thank you

Harasym91

it doesn't matter what cd deck you get..you just have to make sure it has the rca connections and a remote wire. wattage isnt a great concern because most decks come at around 50x4 watts. As for wiring your car, all you will have to do is get a wiring harness that is meant for your car so your deck can hook up to the wires your car came with, a mounting bracket so it fits, and a wiring kit to get the power from your battery to your amplifier. The kit will come with rca cables, remote wire, copper connectors, speaker wire, power wire and ground wire.

seve12345

for the wiring harness do i need to sotter them together or do i just connect them? as for the subwoofer i got it from my cousin and i dont have any wires for it where cant i get all the wires for it? and do you have a website for diagrams to hook up the sub?
thanks

Smoke_31

The most secure method is to solder your harness connections and cover them with heatshrink or black tape.

You can buy wiring kits at any car audio shop or futureshop/bestbuy.

seve12345

no one has any diagrams for hooking up a sub + amp to a car?

Harasym91

yes soldering is the best method however ive always just taped them and i havnt had any problems. you can use any wires for the sub...if its a one channel amp, put a wire from the positive of the amp to the positive of the sub, and another from the negative of the amp to the negative of the sub..send me a pm if you have any problems.

Harasym91

http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/...diagram_lg.gif

theres a diagram for ya. just ignore the capacitor and the four channel amp. the one channel amp with the sub is what you need to look at

Smoke_31

I drew this up quickly.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ampinstall.jpg

Because you are running a single voice coil sub woofer that is 4ohms and your amp is 4 ohms, you can hook up the terminals directly to the amplifier.

seve12345

whats a capacitor whats a power block and where do i ground it if i dont want to change my speaker? dont understand it is like chinese to an english person lol

Harasym91

a capacitor isnt necessary for your setup and i dont know what you mean by where do you ground it if you dont change your speaker..you just find a solid metal part that you can bolt onto that is part of the chassis.