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#1 ·
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!



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#2 ·
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
 
#6 ·
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.
 
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Dis (see photo)

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
 

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#26 ·
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?
 
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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?
 
#29 ·
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.
 
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