Another "sub" question

ok, i have the splice done as you instructed...view pic below for verification.

now the blue/white wire from my HU is not connected to anything, there is only a solid blue wire on the Element side harness, do i connect this b/w wire with the solid blue also?

it goes like this (current connection for SUB ONLY)

Element Side /Harness connection/ HU side

Blue(solid) /------------------/ Blue (solid)
no connection /------------------/ Blue white (should I splice this with solid blue on HU side?)

the rest of the speaker wires run to a scoche harness adapter, wich in turn is connected to the elements wiring.(similar to the second diagram...) no stores in my area sell metra...i have sound, just not from the sub, and all speakers have audible static at 0 volume...make sence?
Edit**PM sent bigal

you need to disconnect the blue (headunit side) and connect the blue/white in its place. the difference is that the blue white stays on when any of the sources (CD/aux/radio) are on and the blue only comes on when the radio (am/fm) is on.

as far as the static, are you using the speaker level outputs from the radio into the harness (white, white/black, gray. gray/black, etc) or are you plugged into the rcas on the back of the radio for the front and rear speakers as well? You shouldnt have any static if there is signal going to the amplifier and you have the speaker outputs going into the harness although this is a higher level than that of that factory deck. It will however have some with the radio turned all the way down. If you have to do that and cant live with the static (should be very very low volume of it anyway) turn the radio all the way off and it will go away. Not much you can do there besideds bypass the original amp and add one for your sub or bypass just the 6 main speakers and power them off the radio and keep the sub running off the amp.

Ahhhh...I see your problem. The SC and EX have an external amp behind the kickpanel, but you have the harness for the LX which doesn't have an external amp so it doesn't have the amp turn-on lead on the harness. You will have to physically splice the BLU/WHT wire from the radio to the YEL/GRN wire of the factory harness. As far as the spliced RCA, it looks like you've got the subwoofer hooked up correctly, but as Yoda said, you are running an amplified signal to the inputs of the factory amp for all of the other speakers. This speaker-level output is too hot for the external amp to handle and it is giving you disortion and could possibly fry the inputs of the amp. This may also keep you from hearing the sub clearly because you are overpowering the highs. The proper way would be to splice in RCA's to the Scoche harness and plug them into the RCA outputs of the radio. It should look like this when you are done with RCA's coming out of the Scoche harness....