I just installed a deck into my trans am, which i've never done before, and everything seemed fine but all of a sudden the sound cut out. The deck was still on and the cd was still playing but no sound was coming out of the speakers. I restarted the car and the sound went on again but only for about 15 seconds. This just keeps happening now.

I'm really frustrated right now, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

sounds like it might be a bad ground connection.
i would check that first and see what happens.

 

Sounds like that could be it, the ground wire had a u-shaped ending on the wire that i wasn't quite sure how to connect properly.

I'll give it a try

 

Make sure you are grounding directly to a grounded, bare metal piece of your dash. I always ground directly to the metal frame that holds the dash.

 

Was the factory radio a Bose?

 

I can't seem to find a bare metal piece in my dash, but i bought a Scosche factory wiring harness and it says one of the wires is the "Chassis Ground (12-)". I've also been experimenting and i found that it will keep playing as long as you don't turn the volume up past 17, which isn't all that loud.

I'm not sure if the original unit was a bose it is just the factory stereo for a 93 trans am that i took out and a clarion is what i just put in.

 

I belive those have Bose amplifiers in it, and they may be cutting out?

 

I made sure the ground connectors and amp turn ons are connected but the same thing keeps happening

 

It is important to know if it was a Bose. The Bose uses outboard amplifiers and you can't just hook up a new deck to the system. Stuff like this happens..

 

Nope it is just a factory delco system (gm brand). I've pretty much narrowed it down to a wiring problem with the speakers because 2 of the speakers (one in back seat, one in trunk) haven't worked since i got the car and one of them (other side back seat) was very quiet. I bought 6 new speakers today to replace everything and the one in the back seat that didnt work still doesnt work even with a new speaker, and the other is still quiet. I'm guessing the amplifier in the head is shutting off because of a short.

Anybody have any ideas on where I should look first for faulty wiring, or some sort of tool that measures how much is going through a wire?