Hey guys,

Alright, I'm hoping this is a relatively simple question. I have already added an aftermarket Sony CD deck to my '95. I am planning on sometime, in the near future, swapping in a new Alpine CD deck to replace my Sony.

Now, my question comes with wiring the new Alpine (I had a store put my Sony in, but I want to do the Alpine myself). I know the Alpine with come with a "harness" that connects to the back of the Alpine deck on one end, and then does the other end "splice" into the factory stereo wiring harness? Do you pretty much just match up wire to wire by looking at the wiring diagram in the Alpine instructions?

Is there anything that can simply plug into the factory stereo harness and then plug into the back of the Alpine deck (meaning there is a plug on each end)? I am just looking for the easiest wiring solution possible.

Thanks for all the help guys-

Cody

Hopefully this all makes sense....:pat:

 

nobody makes an "alpine, to toyota" plug, but there are many companies tham make wiring harnesses. basicly what they do is plug into the factory wiring harness where your old stereo was (not the sony the factory) and has a set of colored wires. These wires you connect to the alpine's wires. These wires are universally coded, so it takes a real genious to screw them up (hook yellow up with yellow, black with black, green w/ white stripe, with green w/ white stripe)

since you had a shop do the sony, they probably already used this harness. you were probably charged $15 for a wiring harness, and $20 for a pocket right?

 

Ya, there was a harness charge when I got my Sony. Well, you answered my question about the "Toyota to Alpine" plug.

My friend just got a new Alpine deck, and it came with harness in the box. The harness plugs into the back of the Alpine deck, and then you have to splice/connect the other ends of the wires into the factory harness...am I understanding that right?

It will probably be a lot more self explanatory when I have the dash apart, but I was just curious now, so I decided to post the question. Thanks Eric-

 

The toyota has 2 plastic connectors, a 5 pin and a larger 12 or something where the factory stereo plugged in. The harness Eric is talking about plugs into these connectors and has regular old wires coming out. Like this:



You connect this piece to the Alpine harness with wire connectors, so now you have an Alpine plug on one end and a Toyota plug on the other. You could just cut the sony harness off and reuse the piece that plugs into the Toyota.

 

They have made it even easier these days. There are two adapters you can buy now. One has a toyota plug at one end, and a universal plug at the other end. Then another adapter has a universal plug at one end and a plug for whatever brand of stereo you have, such as sony or alpine etc. You just plug everything together in like 30 seconds and youre done. When I installed my sony deck, i was ready to do just get the toyota adapter and use it to wire to the sony one that came with the deck like i did with some other ones but wehn i went to get the adapter I saw that they have the two that makes it that much faster and easier.

edit: heres some links for ya

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.js...4303&oid=40945

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.js...4303&oid=41015

 

its a simple tabletop installation i did my first install w/ a cva-1004 in my ride.as far as the colors, the back of the harness adapter package should say what each color is (power,ground,power antenna..etc)so just open up the alpine manual and match it up to the alpine harness.the only wire u won't match up is an illumination.all in all pretty much color to color

 

Thanks for the help guys.

Henryv - that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton for those links!

 

I like the second method better (like Henryv mentioned) but when I did mine I used suv's method.

 

good lord people are lazy. how hard is it to put the yellow cable in the end of the butt connector and sqweeze? ˟˟˟˟ that is retarded

And I bet circut city charges go like this
Wire harness car side$14.99
Wire harness radio side $5.00
Dash kit $14.99-79.99
Labor $50
total $85

not this is the labor, click click click, 15 minutes done:pat: