Installing aftermarket radio, can't find right connectors, HELP!

[greger]

lol well i have the stock stereoa nd it works and everyhting but i really want to upgrade. and it's jsut been such a fight and so many ups and downs with it that's its jsut pisisn me off now.

 

[Gimp]

I hear ya, man. Sometimes it's just easier to rip it all out and start from scratch.

 

[greger]

oh believe me if this wasent my every day driver and i ddint need it so badly..then that truck would be in pcs right now..but some tiems you sjtu cant do that right..and i knew it had to be possible. no car can be like that. it justdoesnt make sense..but it feels like ime on the straight away right now so hopfully it works out as planned.* cross's fingures*

 

[greger]

well i just made the appointment with circuit city for this saturday and talked with the installer and he said that they do about one of these trucks a month. takes about 1.5hrs and it involves ripping the truck apart and putting in a harness that runs from the amp to the deck and to the power attena. so they say they can do it.witch is also what best buy said but these guys seem to know it alittle better so hope for the best but i have a feelign that over a year this is finally gonna happen

 

[Magicland]

Apparently that's what somebody already did to mine. I ripped off the passenger side kick panel and found both the wires from the speakers there along with the antenna (traced both the wire bundle and the antenna back to the rear when I ran the wire up from there to the front for my Music Keg). Dunno what they were doing there, as they were long enough to reach up to where the radio mounts, but it saved me pulling off the rear quarter for the time being (until I get around to hooking up the sub).

Strangest thing, on the end of the speaker wires there was a plug which looked EXACTLY like the one that plugs into the back of my Kenwood, but it wasn't wired the same. Not taking any chances, I clipped it off and wired in the plug that came with the Kenwood. I've still got no idea what those other two plugs behind the dash are (though I'm pretty sure one is from the CD changer in the console). I just wired in the standard grey connector from the Scosche kit, and wired the speakers directly to the kenwood connector, turned it on, and it worked.

I left the RCA jacks from the Kenwood for the Sub input and Aux input hanging down where I can reach them from the glove compartment, so I can hook them up later without ripping out the radio.

 

[kelly2]

well i just made the appointment with circuit city for this saturday and talked with the installer and he said that they do about one of these trucks a month. takes about 1.5hrs and it involves ripping the truck apart and putting in a harness that runs from the amp to the deck and to the power antenna. so they say they can do it.witch is also what best buy said but these guys seem to know it a little better so hope for the best but i have a feeling that over a year this is finally gonna happen

they do this using the same harness that i posted. it will take more to make the factory sub work with the new radio. i posted a tip on the factory sub a while back, or i think there's a how to in one of the stickys

 

[greger]

well im not using the factory sub anyways..ive had a 15inch rockford wired to the stock amp for the last six months..and onc ei get a deck i plan on putitng in a diff amp for the subs.