ChevyLuva3

Hey I bought a Pioneer P4400, a mounting kit, and a car adapter. Mounting kit is fine, system is fine, however the car adapter does not adapt what so ever. I bought the GM 1988-2002 adapter. Theres no way this fits. The system is for my Oldsmobile. The prongs are just too big for the adapter. Do I have the wrong adapter?? Is there no such adapter for my car?? Any of yas run into this problem?? Thanks a lot! -Tom

92 z28

if you are reffering to the wire harness, just go to circuit city. they had the one for my car. it was fairly easy to find.

mrbboy

Skip the adapter. Just get a voltmeter and connect the appropriate wires together. It's really easy.

NEEDAZ

DO NOT “Skip the adapter.” You didn’t say what year your car was but ether 88 or 89 was a crossover year, so you may need the harness for a year not listed on the harness you need. Now that you know what the harness in the car looks like just go look at the GM harnesses for different years and get the one that looks right, they all look vary different and you should be able to spot the right one.

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

I agree, don't skip the adapter. Chopping up your stock wiring sucks. You're burried inside the dash where it's hard to make good connections, and every time you need to remove/replace your radio, you've got a major hassle. Every time those wires get shorter, reqiring gets more difficult. Then there's always the issue of putting the stock radio back in someday when you sell the car.

For a lousy $10, you can use the proper harness. I would guess that you got the wrong one. The correct one will plug right in. You didn't say what year your Olds is, but like NEEDAZ said, 88-89 was a crossover area where some models had the old style (like the Camaro), where some had the new style (Like the GTA).

Don't forget that you'll probably need an antenna adapter too.

ChevyLuva3

Aight guys thanks for the help. I went to Circuit City, they got the right adapter and all, even the antenna adapter I need. They even have this adapted where you dont need to wire anything, just click, click, done ( pull lol ). Thanks for all the responces. Everything will be done tomorrow. -Tom

SpeedJunkie

Yeah that same thing happened to me. they Gave me the wrong adapter but the adapter from my truck in the sig worked. I told them and they of copurse didn't belive me but for some reason they were the same.

dejavue

I am having this problem right now,
Went to a audio shop they said a gm 88-02 adapter would work and I get home and the stereo has 3 hook ups instead of one and the wiring harness I got has one really funky one that hooks up no way what so ever. 90 or 92 iroc is what I have I dunno yethaven't looked up the vin and still restoring where previous owner screwed up up and trashed it (still a nice car just needs alot of tlc)

92 z28

go to circuit city. they have it. look at your wire harness in the car, sorda try to memorize is and go to a store and look for one made for a thirdgen and try to match it up.

White Ninja

i was just at circuit city yesterday. Just ask for a stero harness adapter for a YOUR YEAR Chevrolet Camaro...they have a computer network and it'll tell them the exact part number for your car... these 87 or whatever to 02' are just universal things.. basically they're just selling you colored wires. the adapter ran me 16 bucks yesterday, and they will try to sell you an adapter for the harness adapter you're buying. See, Circuit City trys to make it easy for 32 bucks.. they sell you a harness adapter, and on that adapter is a clear white piece with however many holes.. then they sell a female connector that connects to that white piece and then has exact fittings for your particular radio. I just bought the harness adapter and cut the male piece off and soldered the wires that came with my radio to it.

White Ninja

this is the wiring harness i bought for my 91 Z....

White Ninja

this is what Crutchfield sent me, this is an 87 camaro adapter(s)... my radio wiring was cut to sh*t... so i didn't need these

89transam

Ay! I guess Im too late. Dont buy those thigns at circuit city....they have the same ones at wal-mart for 1/2 the price.

ChevyLuva3

Yeah i got it at Circuit City they rule, Best buy sucks. Damn guess I coulda went to Walmart. They made me buy antenna adapter too, didnt need it, but I'm not drivin down there again. But the 4400 rocks! HIGHLY RECOMMENED the SFEQ rules, quality bass out of these old speakers. Remote rules.

Ctech

who needs an adapter just cut the wire just a tester hook it all up and done bam i did it havent had any fires yet

88GTAinRI

Let me tell you my cluster f**k radio install. I bought kit and harness adapter from ebay. I bought a PAG interface, so I could us my steering wheel controls with aftermarket radio, from crutchfield. Well the install kit fit into location but the stock radio wasn't as big so the radio didn't fit all the way in the hole with kit. Had to buy a different kit that stuck out of the hole more. Harness kit was wrong. I have an 88 which the package said was right one, not. cut the wires and soldered and shrink wrapped each connection. Luckily the harnees unplugged from Sony deck so soldering was alot easier.

Installed the SWI(steering wheel interface). It sees signal from steering wheel button then duplicates the signal to radio just as the wireless remote would. After installing and running wires all neat I tried to program the SWI. The light worked when I pushed steering wheel button, but not button on remote. I called PAG. The SWI doesn't worked with my particular model radio, theirs a f**king surprise. Murphy's law, once again. I'm going to change my last name to Murphy. S**t I should change my first name to Murphy too.

So then I call crutchfield to see if I can return this useless, $70.00 piece of s**t, which no longer has a package and has all unneeded wires cut, and longer wires soldered to it, plus a nice piece of velcro to its back. Not returnable, "you should have called to see if it will fit your application" just like it says in small, tiny, microscopic, print on the bottom of the page for the PAG SWI.

I wasn't going to change the radio becasue I think the steering wheel controls are cool. Then I saw the SWI and was happy I could get that POS delco system out of there. What a cluster F**K.

CAMp3RO

best option for least problems and work is getting the adapter. if you feel like going overboard and going nuts (which i will do one day, but not soon....) dont even use stock wiring. patch cables, new power/gnd/acc, all done