i have a accord 2000 lx, and i took the stock headunit out, and cut the wires to the harness and the wire colors are different from my new headunit. i looked at 20 different schematic's for the old headunit harness, but they still dont show the same colors. i bought a new harness to replace the old headunit harness, but that to does not have the same colors, so i cant match them up. I bought the harness from installer.com and it shows it has the blue connector on the site but its white and the wire colors are the newer colors. if anyone can help me, ill go and get all the wire colors from the old headunit and maybe you will no which go where. otherwise im pretty much screwed eh.

 

NOOOO you don't cut the wires. You go to crutchfield.com or bestbuy or somewhere like that get a harness and solder it to the wiring from your aftermarket HU and it plugs into the stock wiring. If you cut them you can usually wire solder the wires from the HU to the stock wires but I don't know if you can on a 2000 or if other stuff is integrated. I would try soldering the stock harness back on and getting one of the adapters that plugs into it.

 

what do you mean solder?

 

is there any websites or places that sell the old hu's harness, with the blue connector. i need that and the little meddle pins that the wires connect to that go into the blue connector. got any idea?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by casmello &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what do you mean solder?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Solder: “the joining of metals by a fusion of alloys which have relatively low melting points.” But when pronounced, the “l” is silent.

Of course soldering is the ideal method, but I’ve always used the red butt connectors on my radios. If you do this, make sure that you have a decent pair of crimpers. Don’t try to use pliers or some other tool, use crimpers designed for the job.

You do have the harness that you cut off, right? What hometheaterman and I are saying is to connect the harness back to the car, then buy an aftermarket harness to snap into that, then connect those wires to your radios wires. At this point you don’t need to know what the wires are, the aftermarket harness you bought will give you a wiring diagram, and your aftermarket radio has a wiring diagram. Just connect the appropriate wires.