I have a 1998 Ford Explorer. I tried to hook up a new radio. The power came on but no sound. Whats wrong?

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System for Car?

Sounds stupid, but make sure all your speaker wiring is correct. Usually, the red, black, and yellow wires are your power, which seems to be correct. Make sure your speaker wires (different colors) are properly matched and securely attached.

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check for the anti theft feature first you may have activaTED IT, IF SO NOTHING WILL WORK UNTIL YOU OVERRIDE THE DEFAULT, FOUND IN THE FACTORY LITERATURE THAT CAME WITH THE UNITS ORIGINAL PACKAGING, after that make sure that you have the correct adapter plug in the unit not all of the newer aftermarket units use the same internal wiring and make sure that the main plug is pushed in all the way, the same for the antennas

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Assuming that the new radio is working fine, check the speaker connections and fader/balance setting on the new radio. Make sure the fader is set at 0 and balance at centre position for testing purposes.

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take the radio back out, and carefully look at all the wires.make sure that motorola style antenna plug, is all the way into the back of the radio..slowly go through the instruction manual, and look at the recomended speaker wireing recomendations.

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some times, different recomended wireing patterns differ from vehicle to vehicle.

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If in your mind, the wireing pattern is correct, and still no sound, turn on the radio, and turn the volum all of the way up.

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If you do not hear any speaker hiss, it's either a defictive radio, or improper wireing.
just because it lights up, doesn't mean the circutry is working

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make sure when youre speakers were installed that none of your wires are touching bare metal thay will ground out and you must re route the wires

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Check out www.installdr.com for your vehicles exact wiring diagram.

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