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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:44 PM
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What are these wires/connectors for?

I just finished swapping over my 88 digital dash harness and noticed these last two connectors. One is on the drivers side and the other is on the passenger side. One connector has a dark and light green wire (2 wires) and the other has a grey and brown.

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drivers side: (this one is a lot shorter than the passenger side one and won't dangle out of the dash
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:47 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

The one with the dark green and green wires is for the right front speaker.

Not sure about the other one, I can't really tell where it is located.
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:52 PM
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Thanks for the reply! How does it connect in to the speaker with the plastic clip? shouldn't the there be no clip and just two bar wires that wrap around the prongs on the speaker? and the other clip is basically in line with the driver speaker but not long enough to make it out that far, it's behind the dash
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:52 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

Originally Posted by Firechicken86
I just finished swapping over my 88 digital dash harness and noticed these last two connectors. One is on the drivers side and the other is on the passenger side. One connector has a dark and light green wire (2 wires) and the other has a grey and brown.

Passenger side:


drivers side: (this one is a lot shorter than the passenger side one and won't dangle out of the dash
The other is the same thing: front speaker. I have a 90 camaro, but my wiring diagram shows dk green/green and tan/grey for front LH and RH speakers. Should be the same for you. The connectors look the same and the colors are specific enough that I don't see it being anything else.
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:54 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

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Thanks for the reply! How does it connect in to the speaker with the plastic clip? shouldn't the there be no clip and just two bar wires that wrap around the prongs on the speaker? and the other clip is basically in line with the driver speaker but not long enough to make it out that far, it's behind the dash
The stock speakers have connectors specific to those male connectors. If you want to put new speakers in, you'll have to get stock speaker replacements, cut and splice in your own, or if there's an adapter you can install that. I've never seen one, but I haven't looked either.
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:02 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

Here's the diagram so you can see. It should be the same or very similar to yours. Just in case...
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:06 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

Ah okay thanks! there's one other strange thing I noticed now that I know I'm looking at the audio wiring. I can't find the rear speaker wires anywhere, I know there's supposed to be a long blue and light blue wire going to the rear and a long yellow and brown going to the rear as well but even looking at the power connector that plugs into the stereo harness there's no rear speaker wires, only the front left and right (light green/dark green , brown/grey) here's a picture of what I mean
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:13 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

How far can you trace those wires from the connector itself? I'm guessing not very far. I don't know how those are run through the car. When I bought my camaro, it had the Delco Bose Sub in the back, and instead of wiring that in to a different head unit, the previous owner cannibalized the sail panel speaker wires and put 6x6's where the sub is . My only guess is that they were run behind the driver side of the dash, down the side, under the door sill panel, and into the back that way; but the driver side rear speaker wiring could be run that way, and the passenger side speaker run in the same manner on the other side. Try looking under the dash on the far left side in front of the door (rocker panel?).
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:20 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

I still couldn't find them, this is a picture from my 89 analog harness of the power stereo connector and you can see the blue/light blue, brown and yellow wires going into it but not my digital harness


Edit: just by comparing the two it looks like all I need for the digital harness is that blue clip as it looks like it separates from the rest of the plug

Edit 2: I was right! it comes off and can just be transferred onto the digital dash harness. I'm relieved and feel slightly stupid for not noticing that earlier

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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:38 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

Originally Posted by Firechicken86
Ah okay thanks! there's one other strange thing I noticed now that I know I'm looking at the audio wiring. I can't find the rear speaker wires anywhere, I know there's supposed to be a long blue and light blue wire going to the rear and a long yellow and brown going to the rear as well but even looking at the power connector that plugs into the stereo harness there's no rear speaker wires, only the front left and right (light green/dark green , brown/grey) here's a picture of what I mean
I can see the 4 wires to the right match closely with the 4 total front speaker wires, with everything else accounted for. Try tracing those front speaker wires from that radio connector to the individual speaker connectors; maybe the rear wires are spliced into them (extremely doubtful but I don't know what else to look for). Unless there was a separate connector for the rear speakers, or you can see where the wires SHOULD be in the radio connector? You've probably done this already, but did you check where the speakers normally would be? I'm at a loss here, unless someone has a your specific wiring diagram. If you still have the radio, check the back of it.
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:41 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

haha, awesome dude. I'm glad you got it figured out. That would have driven me crazy...
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

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haha, awesome dude. I'm glad you got it figured out. That would have driven me crazy...
I was to the point of losing sleep over it, I was SO confused haha. Thanks again for your help
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:50 PM
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Re: What are these wires/connectors for?

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I was to the point of losing sleep over it, I was SO confused haha. Thanks again for your help
Hey man, no worries. I'm glad I could help. Good luck with that digital dash harness.
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