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Old Jun 5, 2015 | 01:50 PM
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cables color meaning

HI

I'm removing the previous ISO cabled mp3 1din radio with a brand new 2Din pioneer unit. In removing the old radio I found some cables I really dunno what they are for.

Could someone help me?

There is a bunch of cables for the standard ISO connector (on the left), that somehow I can figure what they are, but there are also some cables I really don't know what they're used for.

Another point. It seems that my rear speakers don't work. Are the rear speakers cables present in the image?

THANK YOU ALL!!


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Old Jun 9, 2015 | 11:30 AM
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Re: cables color meaning

Start with this:



That gray wire is probably the dimmer wire.

The pink wire is probably the power antenna wire (it would still be there even if you don't have a power antenna)

Does your cigarette lighter work? I would guess that the orange and black are for that.
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Old Jun 15, 2015 | 05:18 PM
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Re: cables color meaning

Originally Posted by AmorgetRS
Start with this:
That gray wire is probably the dimmer wire.

The pink wire is probably the power antenna wire (it would still be there even if you don't have a power antenna)

Does your cigarette lighter work? I would guess that the orange and black are for that.

Thanks for the reply

Cigarette lighter work. Dunno what they orange/gray pair is. I'll try some test tomorow.

Power antenna can be, of course, I had it although I hate it. But I'm not sure the previous stereo activated it by that pink wire.

About the dimmer, yeah, it gotta be. That explains why when I shortened it to the ground (because the tester said the ground and that wire was connected together) I burnt the interior lights fuse

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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 02:12 PM
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Re: cables color meaning

Orange is constant power, gray is the dimmer.
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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 04:43 PM
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Re: cables color meaning

Originally Posted by *84TA
Orange is constant power, gray is the dimmer.
The constant power orange, I believe, is the Orange on the left side of the picture that is spliced into the stereo harness. It probably is constant power, as you said, but it isn't for the stereo from what it looks like to me.
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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 06:49 PM
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Re: cables color meaning

Originally Posted by AmorgetRS
The constant power orange, I believe, is the Orange on the left side of the picture that is spliced into the stereo harness. It probably is constant power, as you said, but it isn't for the stereo from what it looks like to me.
Correct I meant the Orange that he had circled and labeled as WTF???
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