Open speaker circuit

[16journey]

I have a 2016 journey with the 4.3" radio screen. I decided to upgrade the speakers by cutting the speaker wires behind the radio and useing a lc7i processor to feed my amps. The radio powers up and seems to work fine however does not send audio signal. My wiring was fine and checked by a store. There is no factory amp and according to the dealership the car is showing "open speaker circuit". Any ideas what's going on and what the fix could be?

[bramfrank]

The fix is simple enough; wire 5 watt 8 ohm resistors across the speaker lines (which is a common value though I believe the factory speakers may be even lower impedance) and the radio will think it has speakers connected.

Edited January 20, 2017 by bramfrank

[16journey]

I knew it was going to be something stupid lol. Is this only across the positive side or do I need to do both positive and negative?

[yyz]

You would need to wire the resistors  across the positive and negative leads to simulate a speaker load.Not sure how warm they might get though if the volume was up loud

 

I took a quick look at a  lc7i processor   if it accepts speaker line level inputs you would think it should simulate a load to the factory system but the specs I saw said input imedance was 20k ohms

Edited January 21, 2017 by yyz