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How to hook up amplifier to radio

Want to know what color the speaker wires are for the left and right

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You have to get RCA jacks from radio to amp and a remote wire witch is a real little wire most of the time it is blue and u have to have a big wire going to the battery and the amp for the positive then a place for your ground u hook all that up and you should be good hope this helps

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Frank Chen

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  • Posted on Jul 06, 2008

SOURCE: replacing factory radio

I am not sure what kind OEM radio yu got? sometimes the factory radio is floating ground, you must becareful, do not touch any wireto your car body.

First check the speake wire, use a 9v battery touch the speaker wire + and -to find out which is which and then one by one connect to your OEM radio and turn on and find out if it is a correct side or front and back.

hope this can help you a little bit.

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  • Posted on Feb 11, 2009

SOURCE: Radio wiring ford xg ute

On new systems, like the one you bought to replace old one: grey and white are front, purple and green are rear. New wires should be labelled or shown on diagram on radio body. Stripes indicate negative side of speaker.

On your old loom: cut back behind plug, and strip wires at ends. Isolate power and grounds, and any that go hot EVER! Now checking just the remaining wires, use a AA or 9-volt battery, and touch pairs of wires to opposite poles of the battery. If you touch two that go to the same speaker, you will hear a slight static sound at that speaker: label these for that speaker, and so on. Once you get the pairs seperated and labelled by speaker location, the negs will be the striped ones, though you may not find they all have stripes. once you pair them, test in both polarity positions, the correct one will sound better right away. Should be able to reach max volume with little buzz or distortion. If not switch pow and neg sides. Hope this helps, TT

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  • Posted on Nov 25, 2009

SOURCE: need wiring diagram for a 2002 mustang Mach 1

2002 Ford Mustang Car Stereo Radio Wiring Diagram
Radio Constant 12V+ Wire: Purple/Light Blue
Radio Switched 12V+ Wire: Black/Pink
Radio Ground Wire: Black/Light Green, Black
Radio Illumination Dimmer Wire: Light Blue/Red
Radio Antenna Trigger Wire: Orange/Light Blue
Front Speakers Size: N/A
Front Speakers Location: N/A
Left Front Speaker Wire (+): Orange/Light Green
Left Front Speaker Wire (-): Light Blue/White
Right Front Speaker Wire (+): White/Light Green
Right Front Speaker Wire (-): Green/Orange
Rear Speakers Size: N/A
Rear Speakers Location: N/A
Left Rear Speaker Wire (+): Gray/Light Blue
Left Rear Speaker Wire (-): Tan/Yellow
Right Rear Speaker Wire (+): Orange/Red
Right Rear Speaker Wire (-): Brown/Pink

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 22, 2010

SOURCE: On a 95 Ford Taurus I don't know what color the

the wires usely have the symbols on them or have writing on them which tells you

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 16, 2011

SOURCE: need the speaker color wires

Unfortunately all the photos I have are black and white. The method I use is to look at the speakers themselves and get the colors from the speakers. This has the added advantage of giving you the ability to make sure you have them hooked up in the correct order.

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