How do you install a stereo into a 1990 Chevy Silverado?

Answer 1

The easiest way for a do-it-yourselfer is to go to www.Crutchfield.com (or is it www.Crutchfield's.com?) . They sell car stereos and electronics online and by catalog.

First, write down what Year, Make, and Model of car or truck you own.

Go to Crutchfield's or call them by phone. Enter or describe your car or truck's data. What happens is they will supply you with a list of stereos, amps, changers, speakers that will fit your vehicle.

The nice thing about Crutchfield's is that they have the right kind of wiring harnesses, mounts, and dashboard adapters for your specific vehicle! Try getting all that on your own! Some units they sell will include all the hardware.

Side notes: You don't really need to get an amp or new speakers, or a CD changer. If you can afford it, buy a car stereo that will let you hook up your iPod......so then who needs a CD player or CD changer? LOLOL.

First off, if you want to do it yourself here is a list of what you have to have:

* CD Player

* You need the plastic piece that replaces the vents and small cubby hole in the center of your dash, this will be the new loaction of your CD player, it will have an opening in the where the cubby hole used to be that the CD player will fit in. (can be found at any electronics store)

* Wiring Connector (can be bought at Walmart or any car audio store)

* You will also need an antenna adapter (it should come with the wiring connector, but it might not.

• There is a piece that fills the hole of the old stereo that is highly recommended but not required just depends if you care if there is a large gapping hole in your dash

  To Install it: 1st reach under the dash and look for a silver (looks almost like an amp) box with a wired plug coming out of the bottom. These are all of the wires that go to your factory stereo. after unplugging it you can easily remove the factory stereo.

  Remove the silver box, there is only 1 screw holding it in and it is directly on the bottom. After you remove it, there will be a connector on the top of it which will plug into your Wiring Connector that you should have bought earlier. The antenna wire also plugs into the top of this silver box. After all this the factory stereo should be completely un-installed (no cutting of any wires should have been required)

  Next you should take off the piece of plastic that contains the center vents and cubby hole. It is easy to pry with the glove box door open. There are 2 bottom clips that are to be pryed out and the top 2 slide out the bottom. Now you can reroute the set of wires and the antenna wire to the new location of the stereo, this may be kind of tough. Take the Wiring connector you bought and the wiring connector that came with the stereo and crimp all the appropriate wires together using splice connectors and a crimping tool...they should be the same color, but check the instructions that came with the CD player and wiring connector to be sure. After that the connections should slide togethor and the CD player should turn on with the key on. The rest you should be able to figure out since it is only mounting the CD player in the new plastic piece which is very straight forward.

  You will have a hole where the factory stereo used to be, stores like crutchfield and other audio shops have a piece that fits in there as a cubby hole.

  All of the things needed for this project can be bought at crutchfield.com, you might be able to get all of it from stores like best buy, or walmart. A friend and I just did this last night and we bought everything from walmart, however they didnt have the piece where the old stereo used to be.