i dont know if this has already been asked but how hard is to rewire a whole sound sytem. my wires are messed up, dont know what/where anything is

 

nobody...... ook

 

hey, what is it that you're trying to rewire? the head unit, the speaker wiring?I've done both, and they're really not that hard. I'm not sure what else you'd really want to rewire though...

 

i need to rewire everything. all of my wiring sucks

 

well, you can just run speaker wire from up front to the respective speakers through the molding and dash. If you could be a little more detailed with your problem maybe I could help u more...

 

my wires are in a jumble under my dash where the radio was.... my dad and grandfather said it will probably need to be rewired completely

 

so, you're trying to hook up the deck then? In that case, you should run your own constant power and "on" (can't think of the word) power along with your own ground. This was the easiest way for me to do it. (yellow wire to the cigarette light fuse, red to something that turns on only when the car is on, and black to the chassis some how.

Now you have power to the deck. Now to figure out speaker wires, its just trial and error....with a battery. Use a double A battery, and hold one wire to the negative end of it. Then go through all your other speaker wires touching the other end. You are listening for a faint pop/scratching sound coming from a speaker. You need to be patient, but it works. Using this process you can isolate all the speaker wires and then wire them up without a problem

Hope this helps

 

thanks it was a big help

 

1982-87 Chevrolet Camaro Stereo Information
Constant 12V+ Orange
Switched 12V+ Yellow
Ground Black
Illumination Gray
Dimmer Brown
Antenna Trigger Pink
Antenna Right Front
Front Speakers 4" x 6" Dash
Left Front (+) Tan
Left Front (-) Gray
Right Front (+) Light Green
Right Front (-) Dark Green
Rear Speakers 6" x 9" Side Panels
Left Rear (+) Brown
Left Rear (-) Yellow
Right Rear (+) Dark Blue
Right Rear (-)

Then you could order a factory harness from Metra and splice and solder it in, also, order an aftermarket adadpter harness and splice those to your HU wires so you can put an end to this 'hackerness' for good.

If your car really doesn't have any of those above listed wires.....do what you should do anyways...run a fused 10 awg from the battery terminal, ground the HU directly to the floor or firewall, run the ACC wire from the ignition ACC or fuse panel, use the factory yellow acc if it's still there.

At the shop I installed at, we made our own wires from black, grey,green,white and purple 18 awg or 16 awg...I can't remember but it was reasonable size, not to big not to small. We used thos colors because they were the universal aftermarket speaker channel colors. Run the twisted pairs to all four speakers, the black is the negative to make things easier. Running the wires really isn't hard, just fish them through with something and tuck them away and ziptie them so they don't come back to haunt you later. Twisted pairs typically look better and they are easier to work with when it comes to mobile electronics.

If you want to know how to make a twisted pair, just get a keyless chuck drill and go from there. have fun!!

 

thanks for all of your help guys