Heys guys, trying to wire up an Alpine stereo to my Z but the wires from the deck are completely different colours to the harness and not sure which colour goes with what. Anyone came across the same issues?? Cheers:zlove:
Service manual has the wiring colours in it. If you are too lazy to look at that have a search here, all should be revealed.
Or just wire up new speaker wires, find the 12V power, 12V ignition using a multimeter, earth the earth wire to the chassis and that's it. Just don't arc out any 12volt wires in the process so have a few spare fuses laying around for the fuse box
I use a popper. It is an AA battery that you can put across the speaker wires to see which wires go to which speaker. you can also tell which is the positive and negative by looking at which way the speaker moves. If the speaker cone moves outward the positive wire of the speaker is on the positive end of the battery. For the power wires just use a multimeter and have a look.
If you have the factory plugs on the loom you can just get the sockets to plug in from any car stereo place for approx $15-$20. they have all the correct colours, so you can just join them up.. nice & neat also
The following are the wires and their corresponding wires to wire up a new stereo head unit. Ground - black Accessories - red Permanent battery - yellow Rear right positive - brown Rear right negative - black/red (2 of these!) Rear left positive - blue Rear left negative - black and white Front right positive - orange Front right negative - black and purple Front left positive - green Front left negative - black and yellow Antenna - black and red (test these out because there are 2 black/red wires) - lugga lugga Match these with the alpine wires - should be on a sticker on the top of the unit...
