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Jun 22 2011 09:13pm

i bought a car that had obviously had it's aftermarket stereo stolen.
all that i can see inside is a bunch of a wires with duct tapes on the tips, the antenna, etc.
there is no vehicle wiring harness

i have another aftermarket radio i want to install. it comes with a harness that plugs into the back of the radio and ends with another harness that plugs into the vehicle harness, i suppose. but the harness isn't there. just a bunch of messy wires.
what do I do??

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Jun 22 2011 10:32pm

Probably someone before you didn't want to spend the 7 bucks for the harness lol. It's going to be a bitch to figure out whats what.

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Jun 22 2011 11:12pm

Quote (Patrick @ Jun 22 2011 10:32pm)

Probably someone before you didn't want to spend the 7 bucks for the harness lol. It's going to be a bitch to figure out whats what.

I did this with my '01 Cavilier because the harness I needed was $200.
I was too dumb at the time to see if there was a cheap harness that would just not give me the door chimes, so I learned how to hard wire the hard way.

No pun intended. But anyway, just find the corresponding wire diagram and hard wire it.

This post was edited by Cadillac on Jun 22 2011 11:12pm

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Jun 23 2011 07:23am

Quote (Cadillac @ Jun 23 2011 12:12am)

Sounds about right @ the $200 part. If you had onstar the part is GMOS01 costing about 159.95, if no onstar its a GMRC01 which costs like 129.95.

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