Things You'll Need:
- Crimp set (ask Radioshack) or look further into my article.
- Wire strippers, or use your teeth (not recommended)
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Step 1
The first thing that must be done is to strip the wires so that about a quarter of an inch is showing of the wire that comes out of your CD player's wires. Every single wire which is about 12 wires or so, must be stripped in order to proceed to the next step.
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Step 2
After your wires are stripped. Take the new wire harness, the one I'm assuming you made sure is fit for your model of vehicle. You could buy these harnesses at BestBuy or your local car audio store. Take the harness and if you got a good quality harness it should be already stripped. If they're not already stripped, then strip them.
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Step 3
Now here's the tricky part that's only tricky until you read this step.
Just match up the colors from your CD player's wires, to the wire harness's wires. That's right, it's as simple as that. Twist the wire from the CD player and the wire harness together about 4-7 times until the wire is secure. -
Step 4
A crimp set includes little plastic bits that the 2 wires go into when twisted, then the wire put in the plastic bit and the plastic bit is then pushed down with force (crimped) to secure the wires from coming apart or touching other wires. A good note to remember is that if the blue wire from the CD player doesn't match a wire on the harness, then that is okay. Just crimp the blue wire by itself. The blue wire is used for aftermarket amplifiers to tell the amplifier to turn on when the radio is on.
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Step 5
To avoid any incidents, unplug the negative (black) part of the battery on your car. Now plug the end piece of the wire harness (the plastic piece), into the car's radio input (car's plastic piece). If they 2 harnesses do not fit together than you have made a mistake and purchased the wrong harness. If you have anymore questions than feel free to email me.
