Forums > Help! > Re putting in stereo in Jap import Legacy

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
have you tried searching on Google?

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
yes. done searching, checked out overseas auto electrical info etc. etc... still not the correct wiring colours.. thanks for suggesting though

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
how odd.

Are you sure someone at the kenwood factory isnt just having a laugh, and has colour coded all the wires wrongly?

Can you not just go through the possible permutations of the wires, and see whih one works?
Or will it blow up if its in the wrong way?

Thats a question you will know: Does getting the correct polarity on speakers really actually matter? As they appear still to work either way the red ad black wires go....

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
if i had a heap of time to go through the wiring it would be ok.:) I'm trying to do this the lazy way. It's not the wiring on the Kenwood, its the car wiring... speakers aren't much of a prob but I need to know which is positive, negative, and the remote wire on the car. It's not red+ black- etc as usual.
Kenwood is normal wiring, car isn't
I guess I'm just going to have to take some time with a multimetre or something to figure it out. Just thought I'd try this first

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
What car you got?

It wont help me help you, im just being nosey.

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
How much of the system do you have? If you have the head unit then you'll only need to power if from a standard 12v cable (I assume).

The head unit should lead to a xover and amp that in turn lean to the speakers. This should all be standard speaker cable.

Your amp should have lables on it telling you what all the ports do.

Or are you bridging 2 amps or something? Even if you are id should be quite easy.

Can you give up more info please?

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Sym...

How do you know so much about stuff?

Its cool.

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Sym_ It's just a basic stereo, no amps or anything. Does that mean I shouls be allrite just putting in whole new wiring? And if so, where should I wire it from, the fuse box or something better? Sorry, I know a little bit but I'm not a qualified installer or anything
Unattractive Cranky Old Freud (love the name!) I have a Suby Legacy T/Turbo GT Legacy 10 yrs old though, but I like it

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
(an add on)
If you wire up the speakers wrong you don't get the bass out of them that you should, polarity is reversed, bass is reversed.... I like my music loud at times.. & yes I'm working on $$ for an amp etc

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
UCOF, I fiddle with stuff. I've blown up quite a lot of things in the past so I know how to fix them my the fact the I know how to really break them.

Anyway, I don't want to put off nite owl...

I guess you have 7 wires coming from your head unit right? Maybe 6 maybe 8 but I've only seen ones with 7.

They will be:

FL sp
FR sp
RR sp
RL sp
Power +
Power -
RF

Now, you really don't want to get the power ones on the speaker ones (I don't know what this would do actually) but they should be easy to tell apart from the others. Maybe red and black? or blue and brown? They might be thicher than the others.

as for the others, just try them out. set the fader and balance to one speaker and go for it. The RF is the only one remaining!

Good luck

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Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Can you not get some sort of adapter to plug the wires dircetly so all the difficult bits have been done for you!!?

I know AUTOLEADS do them for uk spec cars, not sure about imports though!

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 10th Mar 2005

Written by: Unattractive Cranky Old Freud

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Sym...

How do you know so much about stuff?

Its cool.

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ucof geeks know shite loads about shite loads of stuff, its a geeks job to know a little about everything

Step (el-nombrie)

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
What are you saying mech?

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Posted: 11th Mar 2005
that you are, by your own admission a geek, like myslef and other on this board
welcome to the club...

Step (el-nombrie)

Posted: 11th Mar 2005
I'm shocked!

Hehe.

So, if I'm in the club, do I get to know the hand shake? huh? please?


nite owl, do you have an update? Or have you blown the whole things up after taking my advice? I hope not. If you're really unsure, take it to someone who can talk you though it in person.

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Posted: 11th Mar 2005
no we have no hand shake, we are just shunned when we talking tech in some threads!

thats about it

Step (el-nombrie)

Posted: 11th Mar 2005
Oh, looks like I've been a member for a while then!



I wanted a handshake.

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