i am about to install my head unit in my dx and i am gunna have extra wires from the head unit that werent anything obviously on the stock. so can i just cap these or do i really have to figure out where these go. this is the first time i have installed a hu so im not completley sure what to do. i have tried a search but they arent helping and i mean dont i just need to look at what wires are for what on each head unit and match them up occordinly right? any help would help its a sony HU in a dx, with a stock casset player.

 

Go to Best Buy and get a wire harness...... then connect color to color............. Easy way


oh you didn't KNooooooooooooooW

 

lol..... fine i guess i will do that. i just didn't want to have to if it could be done without one. yes im lazy and cheap

 

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You get much more respect towards your car if you do things the right way... plus if someone buys your car later down the road and wants to change the HU it makes it easier on them.... i had somebody cut my wires on my HU and it was a pain in the *** to change it

 

yea i know. i got one last nite and installed it. only problem now is i talked a guy at sony and he said i wouldn't need anything to mount it , it would just sit in the same place as the stock one, yet it doesn't so its just kinda siting there for now. i guess i gotta go to best buy tomarrow and see what i need.

 

You have to use the can "metal sleeve" that came with the head unit and put that in first, bend the metal tabs so that it stays in place, then you can slide that head into the can and the head will lock into the can. Make sure that when you wire your head units harness to the harness that you get from best buy ( should be a metra 70-1720) solder all your connetions and use heat shrink tubing as well. Then after all connets are made use zip ties to keep the harness clean and neat. Make sure that any wires not used on both the head units harness and the adpting harness are protected with heat shrink.
hope this helps