Ghetto Rigded car audo? Need help asap

Cspaintballer · Sep 10, 2010

I recently picked up a 91 talon for 600 bucks looking to restore it. Im almost finished with the interior except the previous owner had the deck all ghetto rigged. He had the red and yellow wires from the deck together with a long red wire with a fuse in the middle of it going straight to the fuse box where the deck fuse is supposed to be.

I took the deck out one day trying to put my own deck in because the original was a piece. My deck would never turn on. I redid all the wiring just how he had it and still wont work. I am a engine guy not a car audio guy so i have no idea what wiring i can hookthe red and yellow wires to so i can get power. i searched through all the wiring and there is no red or yellow wiring.

What are my possibilitys so i can have some sound in my car!

I will try to take pictures so i can help you understand what im dealing with when im off work.

LiquidX · Sep 10, 2010

Pictures will help along with your wiring schematic for the head unit you have.

krackit · Sep 10, 2010

i dont have my talon manual on me at the moment for colour codes but you can find them online. one is for constant power from battery and one is a switched power from the key. make sure your harness is wired properly to the deck and look for a wiring chart online that will tell u what all the wires on the car end mean.

Dr Funkenstein · Sep 10, 2010

I just put an Alpine deck in my '91 Eclipse a few weekends ago. In mine the yellow wire was fused and was the battery wire. The red wire was the ignition wire. You should try to track down a stock wiring harness that comes out of the car, so you can buy a wiring harness for your deck and connect them together. That way you won't have to ghetto rig it.

jdodds · Sep 10, 2010

Yellow - +12v constant power
Red - ignition
Black - Ground

Try that. Solder all connections and use shrink tubing. None of that crimp on/twist a bunch of wires together and tape them crap. If you hook it up wrong, its likely you will start a fire and burn your car to the ground.

ktgurl87 · Sep 10, 2010

this site right here is AWESOME when it comes to wiring like, anything (stereo, video, etc.)

http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/vehiclewiring/1/yeard/Eagle.html

i've already got the eagle page pulled up for you

but it should tell you what all the wires are on your vehicle. hope this helps

Pitbull2o08 · Sep 10, 2010

isn't there a harness for your specific year dsm?

Black Widow97 · Sep 12, 2010

Does your car still have the connector that plugged into the original radio? If so you should be able to get a harness adapter form best buy or any car audio store and just plug it into that. Then all of the wires will be color coded for you. Your installation manual that came with your new deck should say what each wire is for. My Pioneer deck had tags on the wires that tells what each wire is for.

After you get the adapter, here is a run down of what the wire colors are for:
Grey and grey/black, white and white/black, purple and purple/black, and green, green/black= Speaker wires

Blue/white= Remote on wire. (for amplifier if you are running one)

Yellow= Battery (constant 12v, this is used to store your radio presets and time and such in the deck's memory. this wire comes fused out of the box, so there is no need to run it to your fuse box.)

Red= Ignition (so the deck comes on when you turn your car to acc or on and turns off when you turn the key to off. this wire should also be fused out of the box.)

Black= Ground

There will also be an orange/white wire for a dimmer switch and a yellow/black wire for mute. Neither of these are used in our cars. Tape them off

and1chewy · Sep 13, 2010

Black Widow97 said:
Does your car still have the connector that plugged into the original radio? If so you should be able to get a harness adapter form best buy or any car audio store and just plug it into that. Then all of the wires will be color coded for you. Your installation manual that came with your new deck should say what each wire is for. My Pioneer deck had tags on the wires that tells what each wire is for.

After you get the adapter, here is a run down of what the wire colors are for:
Grey and grey/black, white and white/black, purple and purple/black, and green, green/black= Speaker wires

Blue/white= Remote on wire. (for amplifier if you are running one)

Yellow= Battery (constant 12v, this is used to store your radio presets and time and suck in the deck's memory. this wire comes fused out of the box, so there is no need to run it to your fuse box.)

Red= Ignition (so the deck comes on when you turn your car to acc or on and turns off when you turn the key to off. this wire should also be fused out of the box.)

Black= Ground

There will also be an orange/white wire for a dimmer switch and a yellow/black wire for mute. Neither of these are used in our cars. Tape them off

exactly get urself a cheap wire tester from walmart and probe some wires for exactly was he just described u want a power all the time (key on or off) hooked to the yellow a power wire that turns on only when the key is on (red) and of coarse the black ground the speaker wires if your confused u can take a "AA" batt and solder a piece of wire to each end and prob to pos and neg of said speaker i.e. front driver side if the speaker flexs out u have the connections right if it flexs in your connections are backwords and u need to swith them.........all this is if you factory harness has been hacked to pieces.... good luck

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