Need help installing.
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Ive seen so many cars wanting a radio after their factory radio harness was chopped off and have them leave happy that they finally have music in their car haha.
But just let me know if you need help
But just let me know if you need help
Ahhh. yes...... I got the stock clip off of jaimes blue s5 but honestly I don't want to connect the wires half assed and it doesn't match with the aftermarket harness adapter i bought at autozone. supposedly it is for the 90-97 model. Called robert and he said 86-91 are the same, so im going to go see if I can find the one that matches to make the work alot easier. Either way, I'll hit up robert, you or cmanns
Last edited by `iCED; Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM.
Smoke moar
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From: The yay, California
You got to match the wires up
Get some connectors for the wires (makes removal easy) crimp them on TIGHT and wrap alil piece of electrical tape, helps to flip one side of it so you can remove it months later without just yanking the connectors.
The yellow on the deck will be the switched, in the 2nd gen faq it says which wires do what.
Get a multi meter, test the voltage at every wire with the ignition off, the 1st one you find is the constant, or "memory" it always has 12v and keeps the deck's memory n such. Then turn the key and scavenge around, you'll find another with 12v, thats the switched which signals the deck to turn on when the key is at acc or higher.
Then theres a blue one with green stripe I believe, thats for the antenna, on my deck I can put that to the switched which I use for the amplifer and the atenna works, I herd aaron cake say the antenna is ground switched, I'm unsure which method my deck uses I just touched the wires and was like hey look a antenna :P
Next step is to find the speaker wires, simple method is pull off the speaker covers and look at their wires, bingo. Once again use wire connectors and if your unsure dont tape them yet and try it out.
All you need is a multimeter, some male and female wire connectors that crimp on, some electrical tape, and wire stripper; music optional.
Get some connectors for the wires (makes removal easy) crimp them on TIGHT and wrap alil piece of electrical tape, helps to flip one side of it so you can remove it months later without just yanking the connectors.
The yellow on the deck will be the switched, in the 2nd gen faq it says which wires do what.
Get a multi meter, test the voltage at every wire with the ignition off, the 1st one you find is the constant, or "memory" it always has 12v and keeps the deck's memory n such. Then turn the key and scavenge around, you'll find another with 12v, thats the switched which signals the deck to turn on when the key is at acc or higher.
Then theres a blue one with green stripe I believe, thats for the antenna, on my deck I can put that to the switched which I use for the amplifer and the atenna works, I herd aaron cake say the antenna is ground switched, I'm unsure which method my deck uses I just touched the wires and was like hey look a antenna :P
Next step is to find the speaker wires, simple method is pull off the speaker covers and look at their wires, bingo. Once again use wire connectors and if your unsure dont tape them yet and try it out.
All you need is a multimeter, some male and female wire connectors that crimp on, some electrical tape, and wire stripper; music optional.
Smoke moar
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From: The yay, California
This http://images.google.com/images?q=mu...=1&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.bikernet.com/news/images/PhotoID10941.jpg
Those are wire connectors, you wont need to wrap those ones with electrical tape.
if you have a lable maker you can take a lable, make it like 2 inch long and wrap the sticky part around the wire and make it all touch, you can label every wire.
The 2nd gen faq tells the antenna wire, strip it alittle and ground it, if it doesnt move, apply 12v should move.
You'll need a relay like this according to icemark.
Use the multi-meter to your decks "remote" wire, that one is what turns on antennas or amplifiers, I guess that would work. Mine makes my antenna go up and it's a s5, I may go take a look.
http://www.bikernet.com/news/images/PhotoID10941.jpg
Those are wire connectors, you wont need to wrap those ones with electrical tape.
if you have a lable maker you can take a lable, make it like 2 inch long and wrap the sticky part around the wire and make it all touch, you can label every wire.
The 2nd gen faq tells the antenna wire, strip it alittle and ground it, if it doesnt move, apply 12v should move.
You'll need a relay like this according to icemark.
Use the multi-meter to your decks "remote" wire, that one is what turns on antennas or amplifiers, I guess that would work. Mine makes my antenna go up and it's a s5, I may go take a look.
Last edited by cmanns; Dec 2, 2008 at 11:35 AM.
Yeah I have the relay all connected it's just that now the stock harness clip i got off jaime still won't match up properly.
Oh and plus I dont have a multi-meter, and I'm broke until tomorrow or so. I'll keep you posted when I try it out.
I have a wire that is orange and looks like it belongs with the relay. From what I see (from the old aftermarket harness it was on) two wires ran into one. Any clue what this is?
Oh and plus I dont have a multi-meter, and I'm broke until tomorrow or so. I'll keep you posted when I try it out.
I have a wire that is orange and looks like it belongs with the relay. From what I see (from the old aftermarket harness it was on) two wires ran into one. Any clue what this is?
Last edited by `iCED; Dec 2, 2008 at 03:43 PM.
Smoke moar
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From: The yay, California
You need to find the wiring guide in the 2nd gen faq or whatever.
Loose the connector, and use your own little connectors, I've had aftermarket radio things too and they never worked, my dad just ripped all the connectors out and told me do it manually. Few hours later I got the job done, remember this was years ago I couldn't find any info on it.
jamie has a s4's, we got the awesome s5's so maybe the connector is different, I suggest to just do it yourself.
Loose the connector, and use your own little connectors, I've had aftermarket radio things too and they never worked, my dad just ripped all the connectors out and told me do it manually. Few hours later I got the job done, remember this was years ago I couldn't find any info on it.
jamie has a s4's, we got the awesome s5's so maybe the connector is different, I suggest to just do it yourself.
Yeah I'm going to do it myself just with someone to show me what i wired wrong. Im just going to do the best I can for now until i bring it to roberts.
Im going to have to read the instructions of the installation doing wire matching when I have some free time.
Im going to have to read the instructions of the installation doing wire matching when I have some free time.
Smoke moar
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From: The yay, California
It's rly simple, i could do it without a wiring guide.
Smoke moar
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: The yay, California
Aslong as you dont reverse the black to the pos :P, your deck is safe.
basically get the constant and switched properly hooked up and secure, then strip all the rest of the wires besides the antenna one, connect one, pop in a cd, OR connect all, turn on music, use the fad and bal and go FL, FR, RL, RR. and mark down which were wrong and fix. Now for the pos/neg, I can never tell a difference, you can look at the speakers, with a multimeter I think you can too.
basically get the constant and switched properly hooked up and secure, then strip all the rest of the wires besides the antenna one, connect one, pop in a cd, OR connect all, turn on music, use the fad and bal and go FL, FR, RL, RR. and mark down which were wrong and fix. Now for the pos/neg, I can never tell a difference, you can look at the speakers, with a multimeter I think you can too.