WANTED: someone in chch to wire up head unit.

[Guest iceboychch]

having some issues installing double din pioneer head unit in christchurch...

anyone handy with a soldering iron and wires?

[funkytown]

 iceboychch said:

having some issues installing double din pioneer head unit in christchurch...

anyone handy with a soldering iron and wires?

what bits are you wiring up etc? If you go to repco - you can get almost all style harness'es for stereo's for under $20. No wiring required - or soldering.

Just say what car you have and what stereo and they have them (usually).

[Guest iceboychch]

yeah tried that.

i have the harness they were selling.

unfortunately the muppet who previously owned it cut all the wires...

iv tried connecting them up to match colors but still nothing and iv tried 2 other head units with no success

[funkytown]

 iceboychch said:

yeah tried that.

i have the harness they were selling.

unfortunately the muppet who previously owned it cut all the wires...

iv tried connecting them up to match colors but still nothing and iv tried 2 other head units with no success

I'm guessing from your post that you mean that they have cut the wires in the back of your dash on the car side of the harness. It is going to be tough figuring out which is which. Perhaps a wiring diagram is what your after, RS legacy right?

[Guest iceboychch]

yeah 89 gt.

i mite just take it to a car audio shop if i dont get anyone to help..

miss the doof doof.

[zarnah]

hey bro im up in chch on saturday so ill have a go at it for ya, havnt met a car that can beat me in that department yet....

[Guest iceboychch]

cool cheers ryan, i think its not getting power.. tried running wire from battery but no luck.

grrr.. damn muppets and their cutting wire techniques!!

[Swindog]

Get a multi meter. Find your power and earth plug your headunit in then focus your headunit to a speaker. Should have a slight power up on that wire hence sending signal to that speaker. Go till its working. Thats how i do it if it all been cut off. Dunno if thats so easy to understand reading it back though

[spark_38]

Colours are - and function:

Thick black - Ground

Thick Yellow/Red strip - Acc

white/yellow strip - illumination

thin black - illumination gnd

Blue/red stripe - +12V constant

White - auto antenna

Speakers:

Front (L): (+)brown/white, (-)green

Front ®: (+)red/yellow, (-)white/black

Rear ®: (+)blue/green, (-)red/white

Rear (L): (+)white/red, (-)red/black

NB: colour coding is known to change slightly even in the similar year models, the above is a general indication from a Ver 2 wrx loom i have sitting around...i've found the speaker wires to be generally consistent so that's a starting point.

[zarnah]

 

general indication from a Ver 2 wrx loom i have sitting around...

you have a loom siting around? wanna sell it? pretty please???..............

[spark_38]

ahhh just remembered... i worked on a mates 1990 gt legacy...

subaru changed to a single plug loom 1993 onwards, so prior to that 1989-1992 they used the two plug system with the power and speakers separated... i think the colour coding was very different too!

Post up ur wire colours... personally i would standardize the colour coding

i.e.

Black for ground

Yellow for +12V

Red for Acc

Blue for Antenna

Blue/white for Amp remote wire

Orange/white for dimmer

White for front left speaker

Grey for front right speaker

Green for rear left speaker

Purple for rear right speaker

Thats' what i did to my mates car anyway which had the plug chopped... i just soldered the above cables on used heatshrink and terminated with bullet terminals - it makes changing headunits a breeze too!

[zarnah]

If ya loom is the same as facelift i'll hava look at mine in the morning man and ya might be able to have it beat b4 the weekend anyhow!

[Guest iceboychch]

still have no sounds.... anyone?? PLEASE!!! lol

[Guest]

After the pain that was wiring an Alpine into a 07' Forester with Steering Wheel Controls, this should be a walk in the park.

When do you want it done?

[Guest iceboychch]

soon as possible. msg me on msn to arrange a time?

[Guest]

Good as done

[Guest iceboychch]

Cheers to hopai for fixing my sounds...

that multi meter came in handy!

now to attack the parcel tray and stop the vibrating speakers!

[RAYDEO]

sorry, cant be bothered reading through the whole thread... did you get your head unit sorted dude?

[Guest iceboychch]

yeah sort of.. no memory.? its goin tho so thats the main thing.

[Guest]

 iceboychch said:

yeah sort of.. no memory.? its goin tho so thats the main thing.

I can fix that sometime if you want, just need to run a constant feed line from the fuse box because some previous twat butchered your wiring!

But yeah, 8:30pm in the cold is no place for running new cabling.

[RAYDEO]

yeah easy to sort... let me know if ur still stuck ill be up there soon