I recently bought a pioneer avh-3300bt. I have Installed several decks before in older cars but I am having some trouble. I have everything hooked up, I bought a cheap harness and it came with a ignition wire (red 12v), I hooked it up to the deck and now I can't figure out where to put it in the car. I have done my research and I found people that shoved it in their fuse boxes under certain accessories that only come on under acc, but when I try that I can get the deck to turn on but there is no sound, the car won't turn over and my gauges are messed. If someone can help me with this ignition wire it would be greatly appreciated! Ps I drive a 2010 cobalt LT Coupe. Thanks!
Need Help Installing Double Din Pioneer
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What is the part number of the harness you bought? What fuse did you tap into?
not sure of the part number, bought it from my buddies electronics shop, and he had it out of the package, tapped into two different fuses, power windows and wipers. Don't really want to spend another 150 bucks on a harness on top of the deck...
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This harness does get rid of the factory chime feature and came with a paper that said this: the harness in this vehicle does not have a switched 12 volt wire. we have included a red wire and fuse tap to allow you to find a switched 12 volt, or accessory source at the fuse block. this wire must be routed from the fuse block to the factory radio dash opening and attached to the switched 12 volt or accessory wire of the new radio.
---------- Post added at 09:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------
This harness does get rid of the factory chime feature and came with a paper that said this: the harness in this vehicle does not have a switched 12 volt wire. we have included a red wire and fuse tap to allow you to find a switched 12 volt, or accessory source at the fuse block. this wire must be routed from the fuse block to the factory radio dash opening and attached to the switched 12 volt or accessory wire of the new radio.
emperorjj1
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are u connecting the red wire in the factory harness to the red wire ur running to the fusebox/new radio? (u need to disconnect that)
also if u have the pioneer setup u need to make sure ur getting power to the amp turn on wire
also if u have the pioneer setup u need to make sure ur getting power to the amp turn on wire
NickLuce
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thats why i kept the stock sterio also i think u might have connected the wire to a constent power so it drained the battery and wont start
NickLuce
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well thats why u have to buy a wireharness for the new deck bro because it has all ur chims and all nosies ect in it so from what i herd is harness can cost up to 130 bucks
Thinking you bought a harness for a Cavalier, the pin outs are wrong on those ones I believe. Would make sense that you have no sound then.
Might be worth finding out if the pin outs are different. Could re-pin the cavi one.
emperorjj1
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it could well be pinned wrong but the new 07+ harness is completely diff than the cavalier harness
do u or do u not have the pioneer system?
also doube check all ur fuses to make sure nothing is blown
do u or do u not have the pioneer system?
also doube check all ur fuses to make sure nothing is blown
As much as it sucks, you are probably better off just buying the harness. I had to do the same on my car, which I would have preferred to do the cheap route. But everything works still, and Chevy still holds up to the warranty because I did. If they see it was scabbed they may not cover any issues if you are still in warranty.
The thing that sucks is that there are about 3 or 4 different harnesses for the Cobalt. So just do some research before you purchase yours, otherwise you will be stuck taking the car apart, and putting back together several times like I did.
The thing that sucks is that there are about 3 or 4 different harnesses for the Cobalt. So just do some research before you purchase yours, otherwise you will be stuck taking the car apart, and putting back together several times like I did.
iLadyThick
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just go to Crutchfield: Car Stereo, Speakers, Home Theater, LCD TV, Digital Cameras and they will help u out all u have to do is input ur car and the yr and look up the stereo that u have and they will tell u the harness to get they gave me this
i think it comes wit the stereo free but im not sure u could probably look it up on amazon which is probably cheaper
i think it comes wit the stereo free but im not sure u could probably look it up on amazon which is probably cheaper
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i usual hide the extra wires on the left corner pocket