Hello all, I am putting in a new radio and not sure how to uninstall the old one. The picture below is how the wires are connected to head unit. My question is: do I cut all the wires to disconnect or am I missing something that will pop them out? Thanks!
Looks like you need to cut them and just hard wire them into the new deck, sometimes the speaker wires are same colors but sometimes not. Red is always constant power, blue turns deck on off when u turn the key on off, black is negative, rest of the wires will be speakers. Sometimes you will get a wire on the deck that will be for putting the antenna up and down, obviously you do not need that on a yj so clip it and put electrical tape on it.
The deck will usually label which speaker is which so run through the speakers on your yj that you want to hook up for left/front left/back so on so forth
My radio the red is from Acc (turn of the key) yellow (constant batt power to keep radio and clock current) black (ground) blue (antenna) and the rest are speakers like stated
You sure there isn't a plug somewhere down the wires. I've never seen a radio that was hard wired, they almost always have a plug. I kept my factory plug and wired it to the new radio.
There should be a connection back in the dash some where. I currently have mine out, when I go home for lunch I can take a picture of the connector for you if you'd like.
8 hours later, half the dash removed and a birds nest of unused wires...it's all in. The only issue is that no matter how I wire it I can't get the head unit to hold memory.
I'm pretty sure I did. I'm going to go back and double check. The PO cut a bunch of wires and there were a couple dead wires. The only live ones I had were a blue/white, purple/white and the black grounding wire.
Also just checked and the wet stop isn't there on the trans tunnel and there's a new wet spot on the passenger side. So I'll probably try and fix that next week maybe
Ah ok. Well I turned on the radio this morning and it was doing awesome....except for the memory issue....then I turned on my headlights and my radio turned off. Any suggestions!
Sounds like you tapped into wrong wires, could be ground issue, I would test all wires going to radio with test light or multi meter to make sure you have right wires. I think your memory wire (yellow) maybe connected to wrong source.
Switched the wiring around and the radio works even with the lights on. Still having an issue with the memory not holding. The fuse isn't blown on the yellow wire so I'm not sure what is going on. The grounding wire from the jeep isn't in the best shape. Could that be the issue?
If the yellow wire is getting battery power with key off then it can be radio issue, there is only 3 wires that turn radio on, red - ignition, yellow - battery constant and black - ground.
I personally don't think so cause if it was a grounding issue then to me it would have issues just working. But it would hurt to run a new ground real quick. Does it work in the ACC key position?
The radio doesn't work when the key is in off position but it does work in Acc. Gonna run a wire from battery trough firewall to yellow wire. That is the only way I can get it to hold memory. I'll just have to manually turn it off every-time.
You shouldn't have to do that in order for it to work, you might have a blown fuse on your constant lead or a break in the circuit somewhere, but if your going to keep the wire from the battery make sure you put a fuse within 12" of the battery connection.
There's gotta be a break in the circuit because the constant fuse is not blown.
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