Remote wire?

[jcm800]

Hello everybody!

My aftermarket radio was stolen out of my truck awhile back and i finally got a new one from my insurance today. I wired it all up, installed my dash kit, and hooked it all up. When i turned my car on to check it out the radio came on but no sound. I did a search on here and the only thing that came up was something about a remote wire. My previous radio (the one that was stolen) was installed by me and it fired up fine the first time. No remote wire whatever on that one. After a little bit i realized i hadn't disconnected my negative battery terminal when i was installing my radio. i don't know if this has anything to do with it.

does anyone have any idea wtf is going on?!

My truck is a 2006 Ford Ranger STX
My wiring harness is a Metra 70-1771
My head unit is a Pioneer DEH1300MP

I'm absolutely lost! I've never had this happen to me before

Thanks in advance

JCM 800

(sorry for the long post)

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Remote wire is just there to turn on an amplifier when the head unit powers up.

 

[RavoHimself]

It should be blue or blue with a white stripe. Make sure you connected all the wires because I had this problem too. As soon as I connected the remoote wires it all worked

 

[jcm800]

Thanks for the responses gentlemen.

I found my problem and I'm a little embarrassed to admit what it was. As I was replacing some interior trim to hide my wires, I very barely nicked one ground wire and thus the whole thing wouldn't work. I taped it up and it worked like a charm. Man I'm a dufus lol

 

[baxtej44]

Thanks for the responses gentlemen.

I found my problem and I'm a little embarrassed to admit what it was. As I was replacing some interior trim to hide my wires, I very barely nicked one ground wire and thus the whole thing wouldn't work. I taped it up and it worked like a charm. Man I'm a dufus lol

a dufus wouldn't have found his mistake.... good hunting