What's up everyone, today I want to talk about an issue that I have been dealing with my car for about a year. I haven't had a "working" stereo in what seems to be a year and I'm ready to fix it. Let me break it down:

I bought the car used, and managed to pick up some very nice sub woofers from a good friend of mine for cheap and learned about the hell of wiring within the Saab 9-3. They use Fiber optics which made it pretty difficult to install the sub woofers. So what I did was decided to run a wire from the battery all the way to the trunk to power the sub woofers. When I disconnected the battery the first time trying to connect the subs and then reconnected it, something went wrong. The radio would not turn on, so I drove without the radio for about 5 months and then I finally sent it to the dealership to see what was going on. It turns out the amp under the driver seat was bad and the dealer took it out and bypassed everything to the other amp in the car to make it work. Great! I had my radio back. Then I decided to try to hook up my subs for a second time. Here's where things start to get gray for me. I got the subs hooked up by splicing the wires from the bass speakers in my trunk and I'm using an RC converter box with a 1000 watt amp. It's hell for wiring but I managed to get it to work. The radio and subs work but there are problems. The first problem that is most noticeable and annoying is the fact that my speakers have a crackle sound to them. Turning the car on you don't hear the crackle, but when you turn up the volume to that song you want to hear or just have the radio on for around 15-20 minutes, it will start to crackle and it drives me nuts!!! The next problem is I know for a fact the subs aren't bumping as hard as they could. There are certain times, and it's very weird, where I can hear the subs bump REALLY loud and then it's almost as if they just lose all the bass it had and it goes to a low, not very strong bump. Certain songs play better than others, but over all I just want to have a stereo system that works with no crackles and with the bass that you want to hear when you have sub woofers. If anyone could help me out I would GREATLY appreciate it. I'm willing to try anything to get this to work!

If there is any other information you need to know just let me know. Sorry for the long post in advance!!

-Element1023

Why dont you just get a new deck ($100) and hook it all up the right way instead of all this shit?

Fair warning though, most Saabs need custom mounting kits, but some dont.

Use the right forum, get better results

http://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=136

Can you elaborate on what the deck is? Sorry I'm pretty ignorant with all this haha but I would love to learn!! What do I have to do??

And after doing some research I found out like you about custom mounting kits, some people actually removed their cd players I believe but I'm not certain.

A deck is an aftermarket CD Player with amp outputs on the back.

Thank you, I made a post their too and even reddit lol. I'm pretty desperate to fix this problem

Oh I see. So I guess like a head unit type deal? The only thing is I'm not sure if it will work because the Saab uses fiber optic cables, it makes everything a lot more complicated which for me is very frustrating.

i think saabs have it all built into the dash or some shit dont they? iirc someone else had a saab but wanted to use the factory radio because its a huge pain in the ass to change them out.

basically gotta rewire with normal wire and bypass that fiber optic bullshit they have.