1995 740i AMP-Battery dead

[slimmerkitty]

Here is the problem my 1995 740i that I just bought had a after market amp hooked up to the factory amp, (all messed up) anyway I rewired back the way it was suppose to be the problem is i touched wires to the aftermarket amp to speaker wires and the factory amp statted to smell like it was burnt. Only the tweeters worked last night and now this morning the car battery is dead and wont start. What should I do?

[da_bull]

yup sounds like the factory amp is toast. Headunit power usually runs the tweeters and an amp to the mids. Unhook all the power wires to the aftermarket amp and see if the battery will take a charge. If it does, redo the aftermarket amps wires correctly. I am thinking the way it was wired, it was staying on all the time, running the battery down.

[slimmerkitty]

I unhooked the aftermarket amp and the battery is staying charged now but there is no sound coming out anywhere. I rewired the amp back to the way it was suppose to but it drained the battery and started to smell like it was burning. So I unhooked it again.And the battery is fine but the radio is on just no sound. Oh this is an aftermarket cd player that is installed,with the wire harness from the factory radio. The pixels in the factory radio are all not lighting up so they unhooked it. Anyway Can I install an aftermarket amp where the factory amp was? What should I do? How should I do it?

[da_bull]

If youve got a decent radio with a fair amount of power, I'd bypass all the factory stuff and let the headunit run all the factory speakers. You're kind of at that point. The factory amp really doesnt put out much power. A decent aftermarket radio puts out as much power and simpler to make work. Your headunit probably isnt turning on the factory amp. There is a factory white wire that needs power whenever the radio is turned on (blue/white on most radios).

[slimmerkitty]

Can you tell me how to bypass the amp? Do i unplug the factory amp at both ends and splice into the wires by color codeing?

[da_bull]

I answered your PM, but here it is for someone else might need the info:

The easiest way is to run new wires from the headunit to the factory amp and use the output (to the speaker) side wires to run into the doors, etc. Its kind of a pain, but if you are keeping the car, I'd go ahead and do it once and you wont have to do it again.

[marti5]

Try this:

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[slimmerkitty]

I am going to try it later today, I hope it works. I know my factory amp is fried I am all most certain of that. So i wanted to bypass it and take it out all together, but if I have to I will try to hook up the aftermarket amp I have. Do you know how to bypass the amp with out hooking a aftermarket amp up?

[marti5]

No, fraid not, best person to speak to would be an audio auto technician.