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Subject:Re: Stereo wires don't match up
From:craig cowan
Date:Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:23:09 -0400

Yes indeed. .This is the process I've been working with. However, it would
be nice to have a comprehensive list of "Brown/Red goes to....."
That could easily and accurately be referenced to the diagrams included with
the stereo.
I was hoping someone knew of one. I found one on thesamba but it's wrong.

Thanks!

-Craig

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Zeitgeist <gruengeist@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems like the most important wires you want to locate, are the speaker
> wires.  You could pull each speaker and take note of what colors are used,
> as well as the polarity for each.  You can double check this back at the
> dash by briefly hooking up a little 9v battery to those same wires and see
> if you can get the speakers to crackle when touching the wires to the
> battery.  Rinse and repeat for each speaker.  You can then use a test light
> to determine the battery and keyed power sources, though it might be easier
> to just run those from the fusebox yourself.  A ground should be fairly
> obvious to determine.
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have an '87 Syncro and i'm putting a Pioneer Headunit in it. It
> > previously
> > had no stereo at all and all the wires cut. Well, I can find threads
> online
> > but the colors they list for the factory colors on the vanagon side of
> > things aren't the same colors I have. Does anyone know what the proper
> > colors of the vanagon side of things?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Craig
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Casey
>