u/Fapcactus — reddlx

Is this really a speaker amp?

Having some issues getting infinity tweeters to work in my '12 JSW. I was under the impression this car did not have the fender audio system so I went ahead and installed a alpine 4 channel amp for the door speakers and a monoblock amp to run an old alpine type r i had sitting around.

Much to my surprise everything worked the first go around but I found that the door speakers were holding back the amp so I bought kicker door speakers and installed them. Oddly enough they didnt sound much better and slightly more tin can toned than the factory paper speakers but they improved with time

Today I started installing the infinity tweeters. They came with their own inline crossover to tie into the midrange speaker and upon trying them no sound was coming from the midrange or the tweeter.

Did a resistance test and continuity test on both speakers and everything checks out. Looking at that strange triangle pictured I figured it was some kind of factory crossover for the front doors' woofer/midrange/tweeter but Google describes it as an amp? How could it have worked with the door speakers and factory tweeters beforehand?

Im puzzled and about to take it to a pro shop tomorrow. Im an obsessive DIY guy but this has me stumped. Any advice or past experiences would be appreciated

u/Fapcactus — 2 days ago

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Puzzled with h15 hi beam led bulbs

Recently became the owner of a 2012 JSW with the factory halogen capsule style headlights. My first time out driving at night i realized I had poorer visibility than my 2001 corvette with tired foggy headlights and wanted to see what my options were for a remedy

Ordered some led bulbs from Auxito to replace the low beams. They were plug and play and work wonderfully. Ive driven about 800 miles of night time driving for work since and havent been flashed once so I dont think theyre obnoxiously bright

Wanting to upgrade the h15 halogen hi beams I ordered a led h15 set from Auxito and they arrived today. Install was easy, tried them out & driver side works perfectly while passenger does not illuminate.

To troubleshoot i removed the passenger led and replaced it with halogen. Works fine. Thinking it might be a dud led i swapped driver and passenger side leds and the driver side works fine with the passenger side not lighting up

Both sets of bulbs supposedly have a built in canbus to avoid any issues with the electrical system but im getting a hi beam fault warning in dash with either led bulb in the passenger side. Also noticed that the driver side hi beam rotates in to make connection while the passenger side has a harness to plug into and then rotates into the housing. Is this the factory configuration?

Im going to go back to halogen hi beams for now but would really like to use these led's. The area is live in is about 60% newer pickup trucks with blindingly bright lights relative to ride height. Any help would be much appreciated

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u/Fapcactus — 14 days ago

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Trying to install a backup cam that came with an eonon head unit. Instructions say to tie the camera wiring into the reverse light hot/trigger wire and reverse light ground. Owners manual doesnt have wiring diagrams and all the information I found online is of little help

Car is a 2012 jetta sportwagen tdi manual and did not come with a factory rear view camera. Pictured is the passenger side tail light wiring harness (5 pin) and wire colors from top to bottom are: red/gray, black/purple, solid brown, black/green and black/blue.

Any help would be much appreciated

u/Fapcactus — 23 days ago