Yes, it sure does, if that was the actual harness and wires were still original, you would lose those channels. Now knowing its not the harness I thought it was, now I see whats actually going on.
i think here is using the rear that is where the signal is coming in from wire that to the loc, rca from loc to amp direct wire the rears from the amp to the rear speakers (which are the front ) than wire fronts to rear wire which is being used to send the signal back to the front speakers does this sound right believe me i want to do this right ive already fried one stock head unit trying to do this
since the speaker outputs from the deck are being chopped off and/or rerouted, there is no signal traveling along them that comes FROM the deck, only from the amp.
so you will need to run wire regardless. either speaker wire from the amp to the front speakers and use the rear wire as your LOC input, or if using the rear/front rerouting as this thread mentioned, from the front output at the deck to the LOC and run the RCA wire to the rear.
This second option is my recommendation because not only do you use the front channels as your signal, but if you upgrade your deck in the future, you already have RCA's run.
Hope thats clear enough to make sense, if not, just tell me where I lost you. :laugh:
if you are amping all the mids/high speakers, you should hook up a 4 channel LOC behind the radio, and then run RCA cables to the amp, you would then wire up the speakers as described in this writeup
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