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new headunit/stereo install - 5/3/2008 6:17:12 PM

1996 stang

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i recently bought a kenwood head unit to put in my 96, and im having trouble because the wire colors do not match up. i bought a manual for my car that has a wiriing harness diagram in it, but the colors still dont match and i dont know which wires to cut and which ones to keep.
any help or advice.
if not, im going to pay to have someone do it, but id like to get the experience of doing it myself.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/3/2008 6:43:52 PM

RyansQuick6

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Then buy an adapter harness and stop hacking up your factory wires. Some task you shouldn't jump into without having someone experienced to help you. This is one of them. Adapters are $10-15. They plug in to your factory harness so you can go stock again, and they plain work better.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/3/2008 7:28:57 PM

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Dont EVER EVER cut the stock wiring harness. Biggest mistake you could ever do when you can spend $3 at Walmart and get the adapter to hook right into the stock harness. That is the biggest pain in the ass move that anyone can do.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/3/2008 7:39:24 PM

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agreed

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/4/2008 11:11:31 AM

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Does anyone have a 96 stock harness I could buy? The person that had it before me cut the speaker harness because they did not but the right wiring harness, they bought the one for the stock system not the mach 460. SO they cut the stock speaker harness off. Does anyone have one I could buy. I can't find any on ebay or in my junk yards.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/4/2008 11:24:34 AM

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your screweddd

unless you can find another stock harness

try looking on the internet for the color codes, it should be somewhere out there

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/4/2008 11:25:26 AM

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Take it to a shop and let them do it, it'll be worth it, espescially if someone already started hacking it up prior to you getting it.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/4/2008 5:20:46 PM

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Just dont take it to Best Buy. Every system I have seen come out of there is crap in my opinion.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/6/2008 2:53:02 AM

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thanks alot for help everyone. rest assured, i did not cut the wires. was afraid to do anything. i found a harness online that will work, but because i live in japan i have to wait until june when i go back to get it. thanks again.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/6/2008 7:07:17 AM

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I took my car to Circuit City to have the stereo installed, they did a good job. Took em like 20 minutes and cost $40 plus the cost of the wiring harness addapters. If they screw things up, they have to fix it. If you screw something up, you pay for it. I know how to install stereos and I still took it to them because it can be pain in the a$$.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/6/2008 9:06:31 AM

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They have a wiring harness for like 20 bucks that you just pay 20 bucks plug that to where the stock wiring harness then to your radio. takes two seconds.

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/6/2008 11:21:09 AM

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Already established that...

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RE: new headunit/stereo install - 5/9/2008 5:30:34 PM

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can anyone tell me a good online shop to buy a wiring harness for it then?

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