Proper wiring is NOT that hard...

[LearjetMinako]

, you guys and your hacked wiring stories. I remember when I did my Pioneer radio install. First words I said when I say the wiring was, "Oh f*ck". But now after I did the EATC conversion, I would have to say the radio was just the easy part since everything was labeled. Plus using an adapter made wiring simplier and cleaner. The EATC conversion, I learned the volt meter to be my best friend.

 

[linuxman2003]

Pretty much the only reason I want best buy to do the job on mine, is getting the cage out that the radio slides into on this particular car is going to be a HUGE pain in the ass for whoever does it... sooo I'll be nice and let some poor tech do it at the shop The wiring is pretty clean now, with the exception of whatever is wrong with the illumination wire (thats probably something internal in the radio anyway) so I figure if I give them a wiring diagram when I get the radio they cant screw it up "too" bad.

 

[MAKG]

Wanna take bets?

The auto tech guys at the local community college used to have horror stories about those guys using very long screws to secure the cages, driving fun stuff into wiring harnesses and so on.

If you want it done right, do it yourself....

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Pretty much the only reason I want best buy to do the job on mine, is getting the cage out that the radio slides into on this particular car is going to be a HUGE pain in the ass for whoever does it... sooo I'll be nice and let some poor tech do it at the shop The wiring is pretty clean now, with the exception of whatever is wrong with the illumination wire (thats probably something internal in the radio anyway) so I figure if I give them a wiring diagram when I get the radio they cant screw it up "too" bad.

If it is something tough and out of the ordinary I would be afraid of them hacking it out (prybar anyone?) and hacking whatever you want back in.

 

[jmzneal]

i just had to fix my buddies 91 S10...his buddy he bought it off had the radio straight wired to the ing and bypassed the chopped harness all together. I redid the whole thing and used butt conectors instead of the twist and tape thing...we put it all back together and cranked it up and blew the dash light fuse b/c the dimmer wire had worked it's way down into a hole so we never even saw it.

It takes a real morhead to just chop a perfectly good harness out and try to straight wire it b/c there's no telling what goes where unless you light test every thing first.

My harness in my ranger right now is loose. If i take a right hand corner to fast the radio will shut off??? The A/C wire in the harnes is loose. i'm going to solder it back and go ahead and do the entire thing while i'm there. That's the only thing about harnesses is if they wiggle to much they loose conection.

 

[rickrmf]

Hi,
How dod you do your EATC install. I am trying to follw one from a guy on cardomain, but his wire colors are not even close to the ones on the parts I got from the salvege yard!
If I follow a pin out diagram, instead of the colors will it come out right? I'm putting a 1999 EATC in a 2002 Ranger. It may or may not wind up with steering wheel controls.
Thanks, Rick