Appreciate this video, tremendously. Bought my Dart two years ago, to save some mileage on my truck. Wife got me woofers for our anniversary. I finally start running cables to the trunk, with intent to tap rear shelf speakers for the LOC. Come to find that I did not have shelf speakers in the rear LOL. So, now I will be tapping the twisties to get my Dart slappin'. Here I thought all cars came with rear shelfies. Not the Dart haha.
@@chipsfries3041 love my dart. Thank you. Ive own 94 and 04 mustang gts and rx8 and this car is a great car. Fun to drive and pretty quick. I was very surprised. This model is worth owning. Some people compared it to the neon and i can say its not a neon. Interior looks nothing like one nor the exterior. And the motor is a European motor so i dont know what to tell these people.
Ok, best information I've seen so far. Thanks a lot for making this. I've got a white '13 rallye 1.4 with the manual. Fun car, but like you said, definitely pros and cons lol. Do you have the Alpine system upgrade? I know you mentioned the 500w amp, but I didn't see the alpine badges on the A pillar. So I'm just not clear on that. I do, so it makes a difference in comparing our installs. I'm having a hell of a time with it. Hardest one I've ever done for sure. Just adding an amp and a sub. It shouldn't be such a big deal haha. The first way I tried it was to splice into the factory sub in the trunk and use that high level signal as my source. It worked, but it didn't. That's just not how it's supposed to sound. One second it was like it wasn't even on, and the next it was pounding full blast. No amount of tweaking made a difference. I thought maybe because the signal had already been through a LP crossover inside the alpine amp??? , then into another amp, it was messing up somehow. So I tried splicing off the rear deck speakers instead, which I assume would get a full range signal. Basically the same problem though. But why should it matter? Regular decks have amps already built in for basic installs. I could use the high levels off of that and it would work fine. Who cares if it's an external amp instead? Maybe there's some kind of signal processing going on that's just not meshing well. That's all I can think of. Is this why you used the fronts perhaps? Do I NEED a LOC maybe? If the amp (my aftermarket one, that is) has high and low inputs, why should it even matter? My next idea was going to be to intercept the signal from the head unit (the 8.4) before it hits the amp. But I'm getting the idea that the head unit doesn't actually process anything and that it all happens in the amp. In which case there would be no wire to splice into, whatever color they might be. I'm sure glad I didn't hastily pull the dash apart haha. If I can't figure this out I'm tempted to mount a totally separate deck somewhere and completely bypass the factory equipment. It was so much easier in the old days when you just took out the factory deck, put in the new one and ran off the rca's. If you have any thoughts or anything on all this I'd love to hear them. There's not nearly enough info on this car online. They never even published a repair manual. But I can't complain. I'm the one who bought it 😁 Thanks, Aaron
It is amplified and sounds pretty good but Im used to more bass so needed to upgrade. Crazy thing is when having it inspected, it came up as a sxt. But it is a rallye model...has all the bells and whistles. Its honestly a snappy car for being such a small motor. Ive owned fast cars too. Kept up with my friends 2012 wrx. he was suprised and so was I.
Bro when you run a low imput converter setup for the sub you want to attact rear speakers. That way you can adjust for bass and balance. Set up the way you have it will muddy up your mids and highs because you cant balance bass to rear speakers. Other that that everything else looks good. Gotta do a job on a buddies and like you said not much on darts and spl stuff
This will probably get buried, but I gave an amp and sub, along with RCA Converter. Now; do I need to remove dash/screen or just go straight from the doors. If so, how do I go about that.
I'm working on a 2014 dodge dart sxt. I ran my power and remote wire from the battery and fuse box just as you did. My question is will I need to connect the ground, power and remote wires that comes off the LOC to the existing ones currently connected to the amp? Or do I not have to use them just the speaker connections?
I know this video is old but I'm tackling this bear right now. When I pull apart the kick panel on the drivers side I have a twisted par of wires gray/yellow and grey/purple. It's in the loom furthest forward. Are these the correct wires or should I be tapping into the loom furthest to the front of the vehicle behind the loom I'm looking in?
@@upstatetyler2380 thanks for replying. Just weird that the colors are slightly different than yours, but they're the only twisted pair in there. Might be different years?
In the video you say white and violet is positive on the drivers side but in the comments you say grey and white is positive on the drivers side. Could you tell me for sure what wire is positive on each front door speaker. Ty
My father and I got an 8" speaker and an amp, ran the power cord and the RCA cables to the front, took the glove box out and found the CPU on the 2014 Dodge Dart 2.4L Multiair, and we need to splice the RCA adapter into the radio harness to finish the job. The cords are a wild mess, the green and yellow that feeds from the rear speakers changes color after it leaves the door, as we found out from prying the thing loose to see the wires, and we can't figure out if the black harness is the radio or the white one on the bottom left of the OEM. It's confusing as hell, we just want to splice the adapter in, turn the damn thing on and have it work. Any words of advice?
We think that the red wire is the power coming from the harness. We already spliced the amp power wire into the red power wire in the harness itself. Now we need to figure out which two wires power the back two speakers so we can splice in our adapter wires, and then plug the RCA cables into the adapter.
Ill say this. On each side of the floor pillars. There is a thick wad of wires in a loom and a small loom of wires. Its the small one on each side. And each side has a twisted set. Grey and purple and another similar color to match. Passenger is the same. There very twisty. Thats the easiest way. Trust me
Grey and white is positive grey and violet negative for driver side. Dark green and yellow positive and dark green and violet negative for passenger. This is for front speakers to connect to the line out converter
Came with the car. But passenger was a add on when car was purchased. Seat pulls up and is stow away. Great little storage space or stash spot. Pulls up up like in the fast and furious movie when vin turns on his nos in the rx7. Love it!
If you look from under the hood you'll see a area where wires run through. Same for inside driver side. Look up from driver floor into the firewall. You see wires going into fire wall through rubber gromet. I poked a clean hole through with a long flat head. Twisted it as i sent it through. The power wire fit snug and no water or air can get through. Take your time. The wire may be tuff to push through but it will go through. Once you get it into the engine bay take your time. Not much space to fit your hand through so use long needle nose to grab it
Look under driver side by the firewall. Theres wires going through. Large rubber gromet. Use a long Phillips and twist it through. Wire will be a pain but it will pass through. Will need long needle nose because theres very little space to grab it
Tapped into the speaker wires in front floor pillars. Ran them to the back where the spare tire goes to the line out converter so it looked neat, then from the amp I ran the rca jacks to the converter
Just bought a skar audio sub and amp. Where did you wire your remote wire? did you use a piggy back/ fuse tap ? Lastly, did you run your speaker signal and power wires on separate sides of the car?
Does the stock radios have RCA outputs? I have a 2016 and it seems too difficult to install an aftermarket radio, so im trying to get by using the stock radio.
Appreciate this video, tremendously. Bought my Dart two years ago, to save some mileage on my truck. Wife got me woofers for our anniversary. I finally start running cables to the trunk, with intent to tap rear shelf speakers for the LOC. Come to find that I did not have shelf speakers in the rear LOL. So, now I will be tapping the twisties to get my Dart slappin'. Here I thought all cars came with rear shelfies. Not the Dart haha.
That color is super nice. It looks refreshing.
It is. People love it. Practically glows in the dark
@@upstatetyler2380 What is the name of the color?
Citrus peel
@@upstatetyler2380 That's you have the best looking dart and color on the road. Now I must invest in a dodge dart.
@@chipsfries3041 love my dart. Thank you. Ive own 94 and 04 mustang gts and rx8 and this car is a great car. Fun to drive and pretty quick. I was very surprised. This model is worth owning. Some people compared it to the neon and i can say its not a neon. Interior looks nothing like one nor the exterior. And the motor is a European motor so i dont know what to tell these people.
Ok, best information I've seen so far. Thanks a lot for making this. I've got a white '13 rallye 1.4 with the manual. Fun car, but like you said, definitely pros and cons lol.
Do you have the Alpine system upgrade? I know you mentioned the 500w amp, but I didn't see the alpine badges on the A pillar. So I'm just not clear on that. I do, so it makes a difference in comparing our installs.
I'm having a hell of a time with it. Hardest one I've ever done for sure. Just adding an amp and a sub. It shouldn't be such a big deal haha.
The first way I tried it was to splice into the factory sub in the trunk and use that high level signal as my source. It worked, but it didn't. That's just not how it's supposed to sound. One second it was like it wasn't even on, and the next it was pounding full blast. No amount of tweaking made a difference.
I thought maybe because the signal had already been through a LP crossover inside the alpine amp??? , then into another amp, it was messing up somehow. So I tried splicing off the rear deck speakers instead, which I assume would get a full range signal. Basically the same problem though.
But why should it matter? Regular decks have amps already built in for basic installs. I could use the high levels off of that and it would work fine. Who cares if it's an external amp instead? Maybe there's some kind of signal processing going on that's just not meshing well. That's all I can think of.
Is this why you used the fronts perhaps? Do I NEED a LOC maybe? If the amp (my aftermarket one, that is) has high and low inputs, why should it even matter?
My next idea was going to be to intercept the signal from the head unit (the 8.4) before it hits the amp. But I'm getting the idea that the head unit doesn't actually process anything and that it all happens in the amp. In which case there would be no wire to splice into, whatever color they might be. I'm sure glad I didn't hastily pull the dash apart haha.
If I can't figure this out I'm tempted to mount a totally separate deck somewhere and completely bypass the factory equipment. It was so much easier in the old days when you just took out the factory deck, put in the new one and ran off the rca's.
If you have any thoughts or anything on all this I'd love to hear them. There's not nearly enough info on this car online. They never even published a repair manual. But I can't complain. I'm the one who bought it 😁
Thanks, Aaron
It is amplified and sounds pretty good but Im used to more bass so needed to upgrade. Crazy thing is when having it inspected, it came up as a sxt. But it is a rallye model...has all the bells and whistles. Its honestly a snappy car for being such a small motor. Ive owned fast cars too. Kept up with my friends 2012 wrx. he was suprised and so was I.
So are the wires under the door panel driver side to connect the line out converter
Yo bro where did you run your power wire through the fire wall
have you figured this out ?
you are an angel sir thank you
Did you have to buy any wires for the radio?
What colors are positive and negative from left and right side
I Have A Blue And Green, Green and White Twisted Together & A Grey and Purple and Grey and Yellow Twisted Together? Which Is Which?
Branyon Slayed you figure this out?
I’m doing it right now
Mr. snakes I Haven't.
Bro when you run a low imput converter setup for the sub you want to attact rear speakers. That way you can adjust for bass and balance. Set up the way you have it will muddy up your mids and highs because you cant balance bass to rear speakers. Other that that everything else looks good. Gotta do a job on a buddies and like you said not much on darts and spl stuff
So front passenger door the green and yellow strip is positive?
Bc google says for the front passenger door speaker positive is dark green/violet and negative is dark green/yellow
This will probably get buried, but I gave an amp and sub, along with RCA Converter. Now; do I need to remove dash/screen or just go straight from the doors. If so, how do I go about that.
Could you use the back speakers
No. I wired it like a normal amp except for using a line out converter
ok thanks your video helped me out aton
@@TAYLORMADE-it7je thats why i made this video to help out dart owners. Glad you got something out of this video.
I'm working on a 2014 dodge dart sxt. I ran my power and remote wire from the battery and fuse box just as you did. My question is will I need to connect the ground, power and remote wires that comes off the LOC to the existing ones currently connected to the amp? Or do I not have to use them just the speaker connections?
No, after the converter is installed it will connect just as you would regularly. Power to amp. Ground to body, remote to acc fuse
thanks bro well done
So tap into the front speaker wires and run them back to the line out converter and then rca cables from the LOC to the amp
Yes
The wires are twisty and have yellow and purple lines on them. Both sides look identical
Can't you run the line out converter of the factory sub?
So for the line output converter did you run a wire from your from 2 door speaker to the trunk where the converter is?
Yes. I ran the wires from each door speaker in the front then placed it in the spare tire area
Tyler Rogers what color were the door speaker wires that you attached them too
Grey and purple grey and yellow. They are twisty. Both sides
For the rims, you need to get them custom drilled. Gotta go get 5x100 then get them custom drilled by local shop or dealer themselves
No you dont. They sell adapters. Some with hub centric rings and some not. You dont wanna go drilling into your rims..
I bought adapters for 70 without the rings. The ones with rings go for 275-300. I have them on my car
There inch and a half too
Fitment Industries
With the line out converter does it play just the bass
Your line output converter wil decide what sounds go to the amp
I know this video is old but I'm tackling this bear right now. When I pull apart the kick panel on the drivers side I have a twisted par of wires gray/yellow and grey/purple. It's in the loom furthest forward. Are these the correct wires or should I be tapping into the loom furthest to the front of the vehicle behind the loom I'm looking in?
Yes. Those are the correct ones. Both sides look very similar. Easy to identify
@@upstatetyler2380 thanks for replying. Just weird that the colors are slightly different than yours, but they're the only twisted pair in there. Might be different years?
Yeah they twist up together like twizzlers. You know when you see them. There very obvious. The others are normal and are separated
@@upstatetyler2380 aww
I have a 2013 Dodge Dart limited and I’m trying to hook up a amp and subs but I don’t know we’re to connect the wires to the radio
Along the front side pillars there is twisted wires with very distinct colors. There the only ones twisted together on both sides
Could you show the rca adapter for the amp so I could get the right one please because on the back of the radio doesn’t have rca hook ups
Go on amazon and type line out convertor. It will have 4 wires, 2 for each side and the other side of the box will have female rca input for amp.
How do you connect the line converter?? Reslly need your help thanks
Pull the front floor pillars off. You'll see wires that are twisty. There is straight wires and there are twisty. One set on each side
Which fuse did you hook remote wire to? I’m trying this on a 2014 so I believe the layout is a bit different
Id have to check but in the fuse box in the front of the panel. The one all the way to the left
Tyler Rogers is that with the car pointed at you or you seating in the driver seat
So which wire on the drivers side is positive?
Grey and white are positive and purple and grey negative
In the video you say white and violet is positive on the drivers side but in the comments you say grey and white is positive on the drivers side. Could you tell me for sure what wire is positive on each front door speaker. Ty
What color are the wires needed?
Did u find out?
My father and I got an 8" speaker and an amp, ran the power cord and the RCA cables to the front, took the glove box out and found the CPU on the 2014 Dodge Dart 2.4L Multiair, and we need to splice the RCA adapter into the radio harness to finish the job. The cords are a wild mess, the green and yellow that feeds from the rear speakers changes color after it leaves the door, as we found out from prying the thing loose to see the wires, and we can't figure out if the black harness is the radio or the white one on the bottom left of the OEM. It's confusing as hell, we just want to splice the adapter in, turn the damn thing on and have it work. Any words of advice?
We think that the red wire is the power coming from the harness. We already spliced the amp power wire into the red power wire in the harness itself. Now we need to figure out which two wires power the back two speakers so we can splice in our adapter wires, and then plug the RCA cables into the adapter.
Went ahead and spliced the two rear cables into two cables feeding into one of the adapters before the harness that plugs directly into the OEM.
Ill say this. On each side of the floor pillars. There is a thick wad of wires in a loom and a small loom of wires. Its the small one on each side. And each side has a twisted set. Grey and purple and another similar color to match. Passenger is the same. There very twisty. Thats the easiest way. Trust me
Grey and white is positive grey and violet negative for driver side. Dark green and yellow positive and dark green and violet negative for passenger. This is for front speakers to connect to the line out converter
Dont mess with anything behind the deck or radio. Its all black wires. Your gonna waste your time like i did. Any other questions ask.
Did you buy the seats or Did they come with the car?
Came with the car. But passenger was a add on when car was purchased. Seat pulls up and is stow away. Great little storage space or stash spot. Pulls up up like in the fast and furious movie when vin turns on his nos in the rx7. Love it!
I have a headache ! I would like to know where to run the power cable through the cabin to the battery! it is not complicated help please thanks
If you look from under the hood you'll see a area where wires run through. Same for inside driver side. Look up from driver floor into the firewall. You see wires going into fire wall through rubber gromet. I poked a clean hole through with a long flat head. Twisted it as i sent it through. The power wire fit snug and no water or air can get through. Take your time. The wire may be tuff to push through but it will go through. Once you get it into the engine bay take your time. Not much space to fit your hand through so use long needle nose to grab it
Look under driver side by the firewall. Theres wires going through. Large rubber gromet. Use a long Phillips and twist it through. Wire will be a pain but it will pass through. Will need long needle nose because theres very little space to grab it
Dont try to put it through with other wires, make a new hole through. It will seal perfect
What wire do I splice to run the signal wire to the amp?
Front fuse box
One of the front fuses. Any will give you power when you turn your key to on position
Bro you literally do not show how to hook up a line converter. I hate this video but kinda love it. How tf did you hook up the line out converter
Tapped into the speaker wires in front floor pillars. Ran them to the back where the spare tire goes to the line out converter so it looked neat, then from the amp I ran the rca jacks to the converter
Just bought a skar audio sub and amp. Where did you wire your remote wire? did you use a piggy back/ fuse tap ? Lastly, did you run your speaker signal and power wires on separate sides of the car?
Speaker wires were ran down each side pillars. I tapped off the fuse in the box for auxiliary. 3rd or 2nd one in the front.
Power wire always gets run down driver side
Do I need a line converter ? If so which is good Lc6 or Lc7
Ya know, any line out converter will work. Never checked. Just went to walmart and bought one.
Tyler Rogers how many channels for the line out converter will I need ?
Just 2.
Do you have a video on removing the rear deck ?
@@kaamiljahmezjaanfoster5795 i do not. It was very easy tho.
did you need a circuit breaker?
No. Just a line out converter
Does the stock radios have RCA outputs? I have a 2016 and it seems too difficult to install an aftermarket radio, so im trying to get by using the stock radio.
Get a converter and connect it to the wires as I describe in the video. Theres no rca outputs
My driver side door speakers won’t work after splicing the wires
Shouldn't have any effect. If you resplice them back together it should work. No reason they shouldn't work unless they disconnected
@@upstatetyler2380 I think the speaker didn’t work before I cut the wires
@@krmafades7647 ok then the connection for line out converter should work. If not use a splitter from converter to the amp
Can you please reply back, i need help connecting my amp and speakers
What would you like to know?
Bruh I've tried every fuse for the remote wire, they all stay on when the key is off
Find a connection tht only turns on wen the car turns on like door connection
Good suggestion at least, closed the door or turn off, the car. It´s hard to hear you well
I used my back speakers and have a lc2i and can’t get it to work
The front work better. Colors change in rear door panel. What's not working? Amp not turning on or no sound?
I have it at. A shop now cause I couldn’t get it to work
I had it working then it stopped and now I don’t know how to use the lc2i adapter
The amp wasn’t getting power I think
Enough power I should say
its not hard.. ur better off tapping into rear left to loc
Can I have a contact number or a place I could message ya about my 2016 dodge dart I’m Tring to put amp and sub install
So sorry, didn't see this. How did you make out?