I got a new sony CD player installed at circuit city in my camaro, the stock CD player stopped working, but the back seat speakers dont work now. The guy who installed it said its because there on a different frequency thats why they dont work anymore. Is this true, if so what would be some good speakers to replace those with and what size are they. I would want some that have good bass.

 

Damn, makes me sad to work at circuit city when other stores say crap like that. They didnt offer a solution to fix it? A simple rewire would have fixed your situation, 80 bucks and, as long as the speakers were not blown, it would have worked fine.

 

What a douche. If they worked before they should work with the new head unit. My advice, wire it yourself. Is it the sub that's not working? Because chances are your problem is that the installer connected the blue wire from the stock harness to the remote antenna wire on the head unit harness instead of the sub on signal wire.

 

As far as a solution to fix it, they asked me if I wanted to order new speakers for the back seat area and have them rewire them but I didnt want to spend anymore money since those speakers worked perfectly fine before. Right now I only have the front speakers and the one in the trunk working. Would I need to run new wires to the back seat speakers to get them working again, or did the circuit city people not wire it right?

 

Having the bose system, you had a factory amp. I run new wires from the headunit to the rear speakers when i do it. Its not a matter of being wired right, it needs to be rewired to function properly. The whole frequency crap was bs. My dad's 95 had the same set up and what i described is what i did for him.

 

You don't need to rewire anything. The wire for the amp is already in the stock harness. I have a Sony head unit as well, and mine works just fine. I got one of those harnesses that plugs into the factory radio connector, then you splice the wires from the harness to the harness that came with the head unit. I can take a picture if you need me to.

 

If you have a picture of yours I would like to see it.

 

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=981628

 

Ok, I'll try to explain it. This is how mine is hooked up:



This is the harness I'm talking about buying. It's like $20 I think, but it saves you from splicing into the stock harness. Plus, all the wires on it are labeled, and the color code on mine was VERY close to the color code used on the sony harness (don't mind that cut wire, that's where I accidentally connected the antenna wire):



There are 2 blue wires on the harness, one for the power antenna and one for the bose amp turn on/off signal. Since your rear speakers are not working, chances are the amp wire is not connected. This is the blue wire:



The Camaro does not have a power antenna, so it is easy to mix these wires up. I did it the first time. Just use your instructions from Sony and check the wires.