I own a 1998 chevy cavalier, I am installing an amp. Will How will I connect the remote and Rca wires?

Question

I need help connecting the rca and remote wires. I dont know what they will look like and Ive heard some cars dont have a remote wire so will I run into that problem? what will this look like?

Answer 1

Are you changing the radio?Need more info

Answer 2

I have never seen a car amp that did not have a remote wire.  The remote wire tells the amp when to turn on and start sucking power from your battery.  You dont want the amp on when your radio is off.  For the RCA wires to work, your radio has to have RCA output jacks in the back, otherwise you have to splice into your currently connected speakers, which will not make as near as good of connection.  You will want to attach the remote wire to something that turns on when your car turns on.  For instance, there is a "remote" wire that is connected to your radio that tells it when the car is on.  You could connect your amp remote wire to that, so you would have 3 wires all connected together.  With your amp, you will also have a power cable that will connect to the red cable on your car battery.  And a ground wire that needs to be connected to your car's frame.  Look for a s***w, loosen it, slide the ground in, and retighten.  If you havent bought one already, I would recommend buying an amplifier connection kit at a place like Wal-Mart.

Answer 3

If your keeping the factory radio as you are you there is no place to plug in the RCA Jacks so you have two choices without buying a radio. A. high level inputs (if your amp has it) you will see a little plug that came with the amp that you will splice into your rear speakers to get the signal or B if your amp only has RCA inputs they make a high / low level converter box that you plug the RCA's into and the other side of the box has wires that get hooked up to your rear right and left speakers.

The remote wire tells the amp when to turn on and off and doesn't have to come from the radio, you can tap into anything in the car that turns off with the key switch. It uses very little voltage so you dont have to worry about taking too much power from anything.  

The RCA's look like two decent size wires with plugs on the ends like what you would plug into your tv to hook up a dvd player or something like that