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Old 03-07-2008, 10:46 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Just so people are aware, there are 2 wires that are blue with silver stripes...

One is on the radio harness that will plug into your Metra harness...the other is left dangling when you remove the factory radio.

The light blue wire w/ silver strip on the harness left dangling is the amp turn on wire. I found this out the hard way after giving 12V to the wrong wire...which ended up being a front speaker wire. Afterwards, the front channels do NOT work and I'm assuming I fried the front channels of the factory amp.

PLEASE test-everything before making connections!!! The rears sound ok though haha

I have a nice Alpine 40x4 channel amp to put in and I will re-use the crutchfield OEM amp bypass harness to install it and utilize the factory speaker wiring.
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