My 680mp came this morning so i've got all the equipment now. I don't have to work this Sunday and the weather is supposed to be a lil warmer so i might get started.
I'm assuming the install is gonna be more than a 1 day job for me especially since i'm inexperienced. So my question is...what order should i do things in? Should i start by installing the head unit? Or work on running the power wire? or what?
Doesn't really matter, but I did an install for my friend two days ago and I started off by putting in the hu, then ran power wire, remote, rca to the back, and then did the amp and subs..
take out the stock radio, run all the wires you need, hook up the amps and subs, then wire the rcas and everything to the head unit, but dont "install" the head unit till everything works, same goes for the amps
^x a million and carefully check all connections before re-attaching battery. get yourself some electrical tape as well, and if you have spare time befor then wire your harness to the HU harness right now to speed things up
well i thought i would maybe try to wire the adapter harness to the HU's harness tonight like you said mat since i can do it indoors (it's still freezing outside). But i started looking at everything and got really confused .
the HU's harness has wires with lil tags that say like +battery, mute, remote...and so on. The adapter harness doesn't have these labels but it did come with like a mastersheet or w/e from crutchfield which coordinates the colors with function. But the function titles don't match the ones on the hu's harness. so i'm unsure which ones to connect.
hope that made sense, any input from anyone would be appreciated, i'ma sponge waiting to soak up knowledge. thanks.
is there some way i can verify that that is the case with mine? because they have a warning on the mastersheet saying that they don't always match just by color, i guess it depends on the car. the warning was what made me nervous in the first place.
the red is the power goes to the red wire the orange wires connect to eachother they are for lights the yellow is 12v memory goes to the other yellow. black goes to a ground. post what crutchfield gave you with your harness and then post the colors from your HU
