On each side of the OEM stereo, you'll see two holes.. one at the top and one at the bottom on each side... there's a tool you insert in those to unlatch and remove the stereo head unit which comes with the vehicle when it's new.. if your Columbia was a fleet truck, those are often taken by fleet mechanics so they can have them when they have to replace the head unit.. if you have some straight picks, you can use those, and manipulate them. Once you've got it released, you pull the head unit out. The mounting plate will have to be removed, as well.. the OEM ones usually aren't compatible with aftermarket stereos.
Then, you put in the new mounting bracket... the wiring harness which comes with the aftermarket head unit.. you usually only need the half which runs from the head unit to the connector for the other half of the unit.. it's all plug and play from that point on. Install the new head unit, and you're ready to go.
on factory wire harnes, there are 5 speaker wires. 4 are (+). on speakers, but only one (-). when i hook up aftermarket head unit do i hook up all negative speaker wires together
you have your wires routed wrong
You can purchase a plug at Circuit city or Best Buy that will plug into the original plug and it will come with a wiring diagram to hook up your After market stereo Cockerknot
Security is in the deck. You will be replacing it with a new deck so the security features in the old deck will not be a problem.
buy the wiring harness adapter for 14.99
buy a wiring kit and a mounting kit. wire and mount done
if you go yo a store that sells car radios they should have adaptor harnese for your chevy for oem hookup
go buy a aftermarket wiring harness from any car stereo store and snap it in and follow the wiring colors and you are done..
To hook up stereo speakers in a truck, attach the stereo wiring to the stereo and run it to the speakers. Clip the stereo speakers into the wires and place them in the panel spaces in the truck.
most head units have a wire on there plug for power antennas, so as long as you hook the plug up right you should be alright! Good luck!
The wiring diagram has four wires. Brown wire for parking lights, green and yellow wire for for stop light and white wire for common ground.
if you have aftermarket stereo it is very easy pull the stereo out of the dash and take your rca wires and plug them in to the back of the stereo and then take your blue wire which is remote wire and conect it to the remote wire on the back of the stereo, from there you rum the wires to your amp. ground the amp and hook up the sub to the amp and you are good to go. hope this helps.