factory stereo

[91Shonewbie]

If you guys recall last year I was going to try and put the factory stereo harness back in the dash and buy the correct harness patch wire. To update: I could not get the factory harnesses anywhere and th his why; every harness has its own special wiring on the pins in the plus, example: looking at the plug as as if you would plug it into your nose, hot wire in the#1 position on the next factory plug it would be in the #3 position.

Now to fix this you have to carefully pull or push each wire and connector out of the plug and reposition it to match any of the factory radios. And to find the harness to correctly match the schematic you just designed will be a hard fought battle you may still not win.

So I just to the schematic I had received from this forum "thank you gents for that info it worked perfectly", and just wired the new stereo back in now I still can't use the factory amp cause I don't have the correct harness once again so it is still a project in the works.

The new stereo does sound awesome with out the factory amp, cause the new stereo had a built in amp sounds great. And that makes me happy

 

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I'll never understand why people hack factory harnesses when many places sell adapters for each piece of the system (head unit, speakers, etc).

 

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If you guys recall last year I was going to try and put the factory stereo harness back in the dash and buy the correct harness patch wire. To update: I could not get the factory harnesses anywhere and th his why; every harness has its own special wiring on the pins in the plus, example: looking at the plug as as if you would plug it into your nose, hot wire in the#1 position on the next factory plug it would be in the #3 position.

Now to fix this you have to carefully pull or push each wire and connector out of the plug and reposition it to match any of the factory radios. And to find the harness to correctly match the schematic you just designed will be a hard fought battle you may still not win.

So I just to the schematic I had received from this forum "thank you gents for that info it worked perfectly", and just wired the new stereo back in now I still can't use the factory amp cause I don't have the correct harness once again so it is still a project in the works.

The new stereo does sound awesome with out the factory amp, cause the new stereo had a built in amp sounds great. And that makes me happy

I don't really understand how these would have pins in different locations. The radio has a fixed pinout, the pins would have to match up with those and it should be the same across all similar models. If they weren't, wiring harnesses would be no good either since they obviously depend on pins being in the correct locations. As long as the wiring harness is from the same year as your car I don't see why you should have an issue

You're probably better off without the factory amp anyways, except maybe for the loss of the subwoofer. I would start with something like this. That will connect the RCA to your factory wiring going to the amp input. You might still have to figure out which wire is which is if isn't on the diagram but that's not terribly hard.