There is orange wire which is hot all the time and is protected by a 25 amp fuse. There is also a yellow wire which is hot on accy or run and is protected by a 10 amp fuse. Be carful which yellow wire you use there may be two of them one is a power and one goes to the left rear speaker.
Hot wires in home are normally colored black. And ground wires in computers are normally colored black as well.
The ground wires should not be terminated on the neutral bus. They should be terminated on to the ground bus which should be located on the back wall of the distribution panel. The wires don't have to be pigtailed when inserted into the ground bus. More that one wire can go under the terminal screws if you are running out of room. Shut the panel off and remove any ground wires that are now under the neutral bus terminals and move them to the ground bus. Some panels use a lug for a ground bus. All ground wires into the lug and tighten. In a ground fault condition it is the ground wires that are connected to the ground potential that trip the breaker, not ground wires connected to neutrals. Be safe.
There are many ground wires on this vehicle. The main one being the negative, (Black) battery cable.
No, ground wires should not be terminated on the neutral bus. They should be terminated on to the ground bus which should be located on the back wall of the distribution panel. More that one wire can go under the terminal screws if you are running out of room. Shut the panel off and remove any ground wires that are now under the neutral bus terminals and move them to the ground bus. Some panels use a lug for a ground bus. All ground wires into the lug and tighten. In a ground fault condition it is the ground wires that are connected to the ground potential that trip the breaker, not ground wires connected to neutrals. Be safe.
You use a known ground and check them for voltage. You can use an extension cord to reach from a ground to the wires you are testing. You are not putting it in an outlet, just to connect you to a ground.
hi the ground wires are white the live depends on if its been wired by another but usually black or brown
if you go to your local car stereo shop and ask for a wiring harness for a 94 mercury topaz. the colors on there are the same as with the cables on your topaz. blue, blue and black, green, green and black, purple, purple and black, gray, gray and black. those are the colors of the cables, i don't remember what color goes to what speaker though. the color with the black line going through it is the ground. the battery wires are red, the ground wires are black, the memory wire for a stereo will be yellow.
The black wire is the ground wire. The red wire is the positive wire. The green and yellow wires are the speaker wires. The white wire is the auxiliary wire.
Yes, I am told that is how you know where to connect the wires.
The ground wire is black. The power wire is red. The speaker wires are green and yellow. The auxiliary wire is white.
when i hooked up my stereo it took me a while to figure out what those extra wires were lol but i ended up hooking the amp wires up to a ground coming from the stereo that worked.
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.
I'm not sure if this is the same but the ground wire going to the stereo is not really ground! Try running the hot wires for your new stereo right to the fuse box or straight to the bat and see if that cures it. I had a problem that was very similar but it wasn't a Tacoma.
look up www.streetdreams.com/wires, this could help . They have color chart for the wires and what they mean.
It may be related to the colors of the wires for color coordination when installing the Clarion deck.
buy a wire harrnes install kit they will have collored wires that will match the line up of your aftermarket car stereo. and then you don't have to cut any of the factury wires. if you go to sell the car you can put the facutery stereo back in
I have a Lincoln VII LSC installing a Jensen stereo, have one harness with amplifie. I need the diagram on the color codes for the wires to the stereo and the harness #CK-WHFD2