

| Subject: | Re: Question about car receivers (taking advantage of Friday) |
| From: | Larry Alofs |
| Date: | Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:36:45 -0500 |
Seems Vanagon related to me. Radio for a vanagon, remote useful when camping in a vanagon. There have been useful and informative threads like this before with no objection. Larry A. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > "My last couple of installs were different brands but had the same wire > colors. [...] maybe there is some standardization in this industry." > > Further inspection revealed that while they do use the same wire colors > for each function, they go to different pins on the back of the radio. > > I asked the fellow at the car stereo shop if there were harness > adaptors. Apparently not. It's cut and solder. > > Nice to see they standardized the wire colors, and the size/form factor > of the connector, but not standardizing the pinouts seems silly. > > Thanks, all. Friday's over and this thread contains zero (goose egg, > zilch, nada, nuttin') Vanagon content. > > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > Bend, Ore. > > On 01/19/2013 10:59 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > >> My last couple of installs were different brands but had the same wire >> colors. They are all probably made in China by the same factory anyway, >> or >> maybe there is some standardization in this industry. I've replaced old >> Kenwood with new Kenwood with no rewiring in the past. >> >
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