Aftermarket CD player
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Use butt splice crimps, tape won't hold or make a good connection. Take your time, do one at a time and make sure you follow the color codes because the wire colors on the factory harness won't match the wire colors on the adapter, which won't match the wire colors on the new radio's harness. For instance, the factory wire for the +12v that is on all the time will be pink, but in the adapter it will probably be red and coming from the radio it might be red or yellow. Don't go by color, go by what it does and you should be fine.
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Look on crutchfield but don't buy your speakers amps ect. Shop around for them, I got my head unit from them cause it came with the harrnest and dash kit. There prices are very high. Thats the only reason I didn't buy my speakers from them. If i had got all my stuff from them I was just below 400. I got every thing for around 300 because I shopped around.
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Ok the wires you have picked out are only good for things like an HD radio, bluetooth ect. What you need is the harrnest from the back of the deck to the factory stuff. Unless you plan on running new wires from you speakers. In that case you only need the pig tails you don't need conecters on both ends because you will soder the new speaker wires on to the pig tails. Do you plan on running new wires?
Where are you getting the idea that that harness adapter is/are only good for HD/Bluetooth controllers? Those plugs have nothing, I repeat, NOTHING to do with extra controllers for the deck. In many cases, using that adapter that he's looking at will make life much easier when he wires everything up, considering that there is about a 95% chance that the wire colors will match with the ones on the deck.
At least it wasn't a big mistake like telling the op to hook the deck up to a drill battery to see if it works.....
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Unfortunately. A true wiring harness adapter is rare. Most connect to the car side of the harness with pigtails to be mated to the connector with pigtails that came with the radio. This requires splicing, but you don't have to butcher your stock harness in case you want to pull your HU if you sell the truck.
To get a true plug and play, it will cost a good deal more than one that you have to chop and slice on.
TO the OP: Wiring in isn't that hard, and I do suggest like the others above that you DO want to get an adapter and use it to chop on. Not because you might want to take that deck with you to your next truck, but just for the ease that it makes.
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Once again, you are wrong. You really need to start doing your homework before you post. Vaughn and Miami corrected you in a very subtle way, but I don't think you caught that.
Where are you getting the idea that that harness adapter is/are only good for HD/Bluetooth controllers? Those plugs have nothing, I repeat, NOTHING to do with extra controllers for the deck. In many cases, using that adapter that he's looking at will make life much easier when he wires everything up, considering that there is about a 95% chance that the wire colors will match with the ones on the deck.
Where are you getting the idea that that harness adapter is/are only good for HD/Bluetooth controllers? Those plugs have nothing, I repeat, NOTHING to do with extra controllers for the deck. In many cases, using that adapter that he's looking at will make life much easier when he wires everything up, considering that there is about a 95% chance that the wire colors will match with the ones on the deck.
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Alright thanks for all of the help guys, i think I'll go with the harness and what not, and I'll see what best buy has to offer me as far as installing it, if it costs an arm and a leg, its nothing a little reading of some instructions cant fix, they should be color coded for when theyere connected or something along those lines right?
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They charge $70 for a "standard speaker installation", which is one pair of speakers.
They charge $70 for an amp installation.