What he said...

but there could be another reason why nothing is matching up, when you took your stock radio out (if it was stock when you got it) was there a black and gray plastic harness pluged into the back of the radio? If it was aftermarket already and you pulled it out was there any plastic peices as all besides the harness to the back of the a/m deck?

Some people are morans and cut the factory harness off, and you are left with small non matching color wires with no labels... this could be your problem. If this is the case you need a REVERSE factory harness they have them at Best Buy also... this will give you your factory harness back so you can plug in your aftermarket harness into it.... if that makes since..

There should be these wires you need to hook up..


Power wires from aftermarket harness to a/m deck.
*Red - Power
*Yellow - Mem
*Black - Ground
Orange + or - (DoNOT hook this up)
Blue - Rem Wire/ Power Antanna (used for amps somtimes)


Speaker Wires from aftermarket harness to back of aftermarket deck.
*White +/-
*Gray +/-
*Green +/-
*Purple +/-

Those are the only wires you should see, the only ones you need to hook up have a * next to them.

 

Why don't you plug in the orange one? I ALWAYS hear that...

What does it do? Or does it not do?

 

Need some help from the smart folks regarding radio installation. Have a 97 Dakota with a Pioneer radio/CD deck installed. Display is very faint in the daylight. Have the display on the high side setting already. Display does not change with the headlights on or off. Installer said that Dodges have that as a common problem with aftermarket radios. Am I being BS'd and is there a simple fix since the installer is long gone. Thanx in advance.

 

Its mostly used for illumination, you know that little **** that turns down your interior lights and guages? Well that wire tapes into that wire so the deck dims when you do it, if you ever hook it up, most of the time it creates more of a hassel then it does work, your headlights blow, blinkers stop working, dash lights wont work, ect.. it happens all th time when we get people coming into best buy saying they installed there deck and nothing working as in light in the car/truck..

one time we actually fixed a guys harness that was crimped together, he crimped the - orange to the postive orange on the same harness... he blew all fuses in the deck and none of his lights worked... it was funny.

some cars are actually made to use it though, thats why they have it on there, but useally its better to leave it undone. Cuz most new decks have an option to be dimmed or not.



perfect example. If you want your deck to dim to your headlights and guages.. then you have to hook up the illumination wire (orange wire) its either postive or negative somtimes both, it does more trouble then good.

If you cant see your deck durning the day it useally becuase of the face of the deck i have a kenwood that you cant even see if the sun shines on it, i have the setting memorized though so i really dont need to see it.

Or if the gfx is faint, you could have a bad ground, and your deck could be messed up.. also make sure your dimmer setting is turned OFF.

 

thanks to everyone, but jonnymagnum is the winner with the factory amp wire.

thanks again

 

ya factory amps dont have standard wiring. You have to do an amp bypass and run speaker wire to all the speakers, unless you can buy an amp bypass harness, they make them i think there like 30-40 bucks. Not sure,