I ordered my new Pioneer DEH6800 and got it in yesterday. Installed it
today, wanted to share a few notes with all y'all about it.
Disconnect your stock JBL amps when you use the amp bypass harness :).
Some of you will be going "duh..." but this did not occur to me. I got
the metra harness, hooked it all up, radio turned on beautifully, turned
the tuner on and it went 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' like a big capacitor
was charging up out of the RR speaker... then the 10A fuse blew. wth? I
looked at the connector and the +12V lead was burnt. I spent a lot of
time looking at the wiring of the power harness, noticed a few errors
(pay close attention when you wire that harness up!) and replugged. Same
thing. It turned on, blew when tuner was turned on. I tried
disconnecting all power leads with the exception of +12V and ACC. Still
blew when speakers were turned on. (these damn fuses aren't cheap!) Then
I thought "maybe one of the speaker wires is shorted to ground?" so I
got my trusty multimeter out and saw that there were no shorts to
ground, but every wire had about .2V on it. I went 'that's weird...' and
thought about it for a minute. Then it dawned on me that the stock JBL
amp was still powering the other (spliced) wire to the speakers! So I
disconnected every connector there is to the amps and now it works like
a champ.
I would also point out that thanks to the JBL amp's weird HPF and EQ
settings, the four Pioneer (go brand loyalty!) speakers in the corners
had far more 'bump' with the new HU even with the deletion of the stock
sub box (with 8" MTX shoehorned in). I think there will be much more
bump when I get a real sub amp. Eventually, I will get a 4-channel amp
as well, but I am in the military, and if there is one thing the
military isn't well-known for, it's the pay :-). I know HU amps aren't
ideal, but it's better than the 14-year old JBL amp...
Oh, and the 6800 is a very nice HU as well. it compliments the colour
tone of the car nicely, esp. with my grey interior. And not too bad a
deal at around $200.
As... um, somebody says, just my .02
Jason
"Hey, I got somethin' special for ya! Yeah! You like that? It's really
nice, I got it at Target. It was on sale!" -Ricky Bobby
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