cant a find a stereo wire harness for my car!, I have some wierd factory plugs! Options

[3sgteLuke]

hey everyone,

I'm new to this site and i hope you can help me out. I tried to replace the stock stereo in my 1999 gt liftback and found out that my best buy wire harness does not fit the plugs coming out of the dash. Bestbuy packaging said that the harness will work for any toyota 1987 and up but that doesnt sound very likely. anyway, I found a different harness at crutchfield but that one has rca plugs for an amplifier. the plug in my dash looks like this: http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/sub...os/100_1269.jpg

the bestbuy harness i have looks like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/87-Toyota-C...sspagenameZWDVW

apparently my car is supposed to have two plugs... anyone know whats going on? do I have some special edition audio system? or even better, does anyone know where i can find a harness???

[itssteve]

well the only reason it wouldnt work is if you have a amplified system and in that case you could use the rca adapters, but you will have to have the radio that will work with that meaning it needs a front and rear speaker out put, but all toyota harnesses are the same just diff in the amplified systems

i would say that if you can not find a harness a simple hard wire would be easy, but i cant tell you exactally as i can not see what car and everything but if you take a pic i could prob help a lot more

[itssteve]

post up a link to the crutchfeild harness and ill see what i can come up with

[stetsonaw]

LINK
you know crutchfield has a search feature, right? search for "toyota harness" turned up this.

EDIT: sorry, was in a bitter mood when i posted this.

This post has been edited by stetsonaw: Dec 17, 2007 - 8:46 AM

[njccmd2002]

Luke, you have an amplified system. I do have the info on the harness, not at the moment. Ill post it in the afternoon.

actually the plucs you are looking for are hidden. If you follow this wire to the amp, then another wire goes out to the plugs you want. Therefore bypassing the amp, which will now become useless. do you get it. If not when i have a change ill post some pics

[azian_advanced]

you need this:

Metra 70-8112 Premium Amplifier Integration Harness



which attaches on to:




in order to keep using your factory amplifier system. Cheapest place to buy it is at AudioOutfitter.com. That's where I got mine from and took about 5 days for international delivery.

This post has been edited by azian_advanced: Dec 17, 2007 - 8:01 AM

[3sgteLuke]

first off i want to thank all of you, this has been really fustrating and other forums really didnt care about my probem.

okay, so amp is in the dash. got it. just to be clear the Metra 70-8112 Premium Amplifier Integration Harness is what i need to keep my factory amplifier right? heres a modified pick that should clarify my questions:

[azian_advanced]

yes, yes, and yes.

double check to see if you new head unit has two sets of RCA pre-outs in the back, a set for front (L & R) and a set for rear (L & R). if you have only one, then you need to get 2 sets of RCA Jack Y-Cable splitters so that you have 4 RCA preouts all together.

here is another pic of the harness:

[3sgteLuke]

you guys are awesome. I went a bought the harness i only have one last question. its about the blue wires.

the harness has two blue wires:

1. solid dark blue
2. white striped dark blue

my head unit has 3 blue wires:

1. solid dark blue "ANT REM MAX 0.1A"
2. white stripped dark blue that says "amp rem max 0.3A"
3. solid light blue that says "ATT"

what goes with what? do i just ignore the light blue one? and what does .1A & .3A mean?

[kerosene]

solid on harness is for aftmkt amp...
stipe is for power antenna

[3sgteLuke]

thats still kind of vague. because the paper that came with my harness says the white stripped one turns on the amp 0.o

its the light blue one thats throwing me off...

[jason]

1A is one amp

.3A is .3 amps
.1A is .1 amps

its the current rating

also... the colors seem to be a bit off... it souldn't be light and dark blue, should be solid blue and the same shade of blue just with a white stripe, if the manual says that the white stripped is an amp wire then use that... the others must be for the power antenna

i cant remember what color exactly an amp remote wire is... but i do know that you can put a switch to it on any 12v low current source (cig lighter) and essentially have your bass switch on or off... nice when you dont want alot of bas in a hurry

This post has been edited by jason: Dec 17, 2007 - 3:58 PM

[azian_advanced]

you guys are awesome. I went a bought the harness i only have one last question. its about the blue wires.

the harness has two blue wires:

1. solid dark blue
2. white striped dark blue

my head unit has 3 blue wires:

1. solid dark blue "ANT REM MAX 0.1A"
2. white stripped dark blue that says "amp rem max 0.3A"
3. solid light blue that says "ATT"

what goes with what? do i just ignore the light blue one? and what does .1A & .3A mean?

solid dark blue on the harness is for the "1. solid dark blue "ANT REM MAX 0.1A" on the headunit

and the blue wire with the white stripe on the harness is for the "2. white stripped dark blue that says "amp rem max 0.3A" on the head unit

don't bother with the 3. solid light blue that says "ATT" wire, just tape it up and don't use it.

[3sgteLuke]

hey i got it all to work thanks everyone, especially azian. turns out the light blue wire is to be used in a non-power antenna application. im going to post a picture of the unit later on. thanks again.