Originally Posted by rjb123
Hello - doing my install Weds and have been studying the wiring diagrams and am a little stumped. I purchased the VW01B connector so I should be good to go, but....
where I am confused is the match up between the VW01B and the factory harness. The VW01B has 15 wires and the factory harness 9. The ones that match are. yellow,black, orange, red, white, white with stripe, grey, grey with stripe. There is one wire on the factory plug that matches up to a blank spot on the VW01B.
I can tie these wires from the Alpine to the VW01B, but there is no connecting wire on the factory plug. green, green with stripe, purple, purple with stripe, blue with stripe, and two pink wires. So I dont what good that would do?
I read a great article about install and just matching up the colors and that is very straight forward, but it seems like I am hooking up wires to nothing.
am I missing something real simple here?any thoughts would be appreciated. THANKS
not sure if this will be of any help, but i wondered the same thing when if irst hooked up my new radio.. but...
once you get the new radio and your new harness, it'll be 100% straightforward. just match the wires up.. no joke.. the PINK wire goes to the BLUE wire (amp turn on) though, this is the most important wire..this turns on the radio and lets sound come out!! if this wire isn't connected then no sound will come out EVEN IF all the other wires are connected!