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Installing after market stereo

Back of factory stereo has two harnesses adapter harness only come with one no sound from new stereo. guessing second harness goes to factory amp. how do i wire the new stereo. need wiring diagram to identify second harness with four wires

  • Anonymous Mar 24, 2014

    I cant find my factory stereo wiring harness that goes from the car to the stereo in my vehicle

  • Anonymous Mar 26, 2014

    on multiple double din stereos, and a wiring harness that specifies to fit a 2006 pontiac torrent (what I have) no power will go through to the stereos, yet when I put back in the factory double din 6 disc changer, works just fine. Any ideas? and how to fix?

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Dave,

You will need to go buy a wiring harness adapter from your local Walmart (usually cheapest there) or Local Electronics place (ie Best Buy). The wire harness that goes out from the radio goes into the Adapter and the adapter plugs into the car harnesses. Also these Adapters come with the wiring diagrams for your vehicle. They typically run 10 - 15 bucks depending on where you get them. Thanks for using FixYa!

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JC

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