DIN 47 002 standard for German wiring color code tells the real story.

Here's some info, in the meantime;

http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/VW-Wiring.asp

                        >1990                1990>
Right rear +    Blue/Green        Blue
Right rear -     Brown/Red        Tan/Blue
Right front +   Red/White        Red
Right front -    Brown/White    Tan/Red
Left front +     Black                 Blue/White
Left front -      Brown/Blue       Tan/White
Left rear +      Blue/Green        Red/Green
Left rear -       Brown/Red        Tan/Green

Mike B.

-----Original Message-----
From: craig cowan
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Stereo wires don't match up

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
>