car sterio wires...

[Blackdog455]

Is this in the right section? well sorry if its not.

ok well im in the process of putting speakers and all that stuff in my ranger and im almost done except for these 2 wires i couldnt find where they go.

Sorry i have no pictures but ill give the best description i can. The instructions that came with my cd player in dash radio said that the yellow wire is for battery and the red is for ignition. I have no clue where to connect these 2 wires. I was thinking for the ignition to tap into the real ignition wire and see how that works, but im not going to even chance it until i know if its ok.

Supposedly the instructions say that i need to go though the fuse box or something. Sorry if these descriptions arent good but, its the best i can give. any help will be extremely appreciated.

 

[Tiollib]

The battery wire is your hot wire, and the ignition is your remote wire,or something like that. It turns your radio on when you turn the ignition of your truck on. Make sure your battery is disconnected when you do this.

 

[Blackdog455]

ya my battery is disconnected. So where do i attach these wires?

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Get out a test light and check the factory harness. One will have constant power, and one will only have power when the key is on. Those are the wires you are looking for.

 

[Tiollib]

The plugs on the stereo usually have the color combination on a sticker on the plug. Thats where mine were. Just connect the right color wires to ignition and battery wire

 

[Tiollib]

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37293 Heres a link with some reference.

 

[Blackdog455]

hmm...no my sterio doesnt have color combination...I guess ill just test the wires.

 

[Blackdog455]

thanks for the link. I havent even touched the factory wiring harness...i really hope i havent screwed this u p.

 

[Tiollib]

You have one of the kits that plugs into the factory harness? If so, they should be labeled in some way.

 

[Blackdog455]

no...It doesnt plug into the factory harness. I was actually thinking about leaving it in there by bypassing it and just plugging my new sterio into everything while not using the factory harness. Like i said, i only have the battery wire and the ignition wire left of which i have no idea where to plug them in...or attach them to a wire.

 

[Snowboarder7710]

go to a stereo shop and buy the harness that plugs into yours. they make them. i see way too many people try to install their own radios and end up destroying the factory wiring and melting things. not saying that you will, but if youre stuck at this point, id recommend just getting the harness..then you can match those wires with the new stereo's wires color to color and youre done. if not, then go to www.the12volt.com and look up your truck's wiring

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

So you didn't use the factory wiring for anything? You ran your own wires to the speakers and everything then?

 

[Blackdog455]

yes, i ran my own wires to the speakers. Cause when i got this truck either everything was stolen out of it or the guy took everything out when he got rid of the truck. So it doesnt have stock from ford speaker wires.

 

[BlackBII]

I bet the Ford speaker wires are still around..no thief would bother with the speaker wires...

Get out a test light and start probing wires. With the key off, you'll be able to find one wire with power to it. Hook your Yellow wire up to this one. When you turn the key on, there will be a wire that now has power to it, where before it didn't. Hook your red wire up to this one.

 

[Blackdog455]

well than, thank you for that simple answer i waited almost a day for! haha. Ill see what i can do, but ya thanks.