I bought a wiring harnesss for my neon only 2 find the original one that went from the car to the stereo had been cut off, so i bought one to replace it but the colors from the replacement one dont match the wire colors coming from the car. Can anyone tell me what each of the wire colors stand for (such as which one is the battery)? below is a list of all the wire colors coming from the car.

Orange
Pink
Blue with white stripe
Black ith yellow stripe
Red with white stripe
Green
Purple
Brown with yellow stripe
Brown with red stripe
Brown with blue strioe
Blue with red stripe
Blue with orange stripe

 

well all the ones with the stripes are the four speakers which idont really know but is that the only colors that are in the car or on the wiring harness??

 

It appears that this color code is the same for both 1st and 2nd generation Neons at least up to 2003.
Apparently the Black with yellow stripe = light switch is not used on all years.
Note: fuse #'s shown are for 1st gen Neons.

Orange = interior lights
Pink = power hot at all times fuse # 13 (power dist center) (may be Pink/Light Blue on some2nd gen)
Black with yellow stripe = light switch
Red with white stripe = power from acc. fuse # 16 (fuse block)(may be yellow/red on some 2nd gen)
Black = Ground

Dark Green = + LF speaker
Brown with red stripe = - LF speaker

Violet = + RF speaker
Dark Blue with red stripe = - RF speaker

Brown with yellow stripe = + LR speaker
Brown with light blue stripe = - LR speaker

Dark Blue with orange stripe = - RR speaker
Dark Blue with white stripe = + RR speaker

 

there is no ground wire at all in the car...what can i do?

 

get a wire and hook it up the harness where the black wire is and then ground it somewhere. Pretty mucgh anywhere where it touches metal that is part of the frame or metal that touches the frame.

 

ok, so if i have the ground wire connected, and the power wires connected then the cd deck should at least light up right? before i hook up the speakers i wanna make sure the deck works like lighting up so what has to be connected to check the power of the deck?

 

You need to hook up all your wires the harness and then plug in the antenna cord and then the power on the cd should come on.

 

including the speaker wires? cuz i dont have any of the speakers in besides the right front one. I jus got the car and all of them are out besides that one, the guy i got it from was changing all the speakers but never had time to get them back in

 

No you will not need the speaker wires hooked to see if the stereo works, but you will need the other wires:

orange
pink
black with yellow stripe
red with white stripe
your ground wire

all those hooked up should at least get the stereo to turn on