Pioneer Stereo in a Jeep Cherokee

I don't have a multi-meter, but I will pick one up tonight.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, I think the constant 12 v wire may not be hooked up correctly.  Would this cause the radio not to work?  I also don't seem to have a place to connect the Dimmer and Illumination wires.  Is this a problem?  Thanks.

Hey Velocity.

You have the pictures saved on your hard drive under

They wont upload in the forum.

Hey sparkyssb; the probelm is fixed, I just linked it to the actual page on the website.

do you mean the Pioneer has a dimmer/illumination wire?  I think if the Jeep doesn't have illumination leads (mine didn't) I connected them to the switched power lead, the one thats on only when the car is on, that way the illumination circuit will only be powered when the car is on.

Yeah jlowens, the Multimeter will be a friend of yours for a looooong time!  They come in handy all the time.  Lets say you TV remote batteries go dead, and you have a bunch of batteries laying around in a drawer or something, you can use the meter to see which batteries are still any good.  There are a ton of uses for it, it will be money well spent, especially for the do-it-yourself-er.  Good luck.

If you do not have the 12 volt constant hooked up porperly, the deck will not keep memory and will not power up. If you did not hook up the dimmer / illumination wire, it is not a big deal., the deck should still work regardless.

For those of you that may be interested, my stereo is now working.  It was a problem with the power.  The multimeter did the trick.  Thanks to everyone for the help.  I'm not sure I would have got it going without you!