So I'm sitting in my Corolla trying to install a new radio/CD player thing and the wire colours don't match up.

I've tried Google-ing for help and the colours on the charts that came up don't match either!

I was wondering if anyone could help me?..

Thanks.

 

 

Car: 1993 Toyota Corolla CSI Limited

Radio: Kenwood MOSFET 50WX4 CD player.

 

Wires From Car:

light green

light green/pink stripe

dark purple

dark purple/white stripe

yellow

yellow/white stripe

white/black stripe

dark green/red stripe

blue/yellow stripe

 

Wires from Radio:

red

black

grey

grey/black stripe

white

white/black stripe

green

green/black stripe

purple

purple/black stripe

blue/white stripe

brown

 

(P.S. The CD player came out of my friends smashed Charade so I have no manual or instructions or anything.)

Edited September 22, 201016 yr by LostPrincess

Hi Aimey, I messaged you on the other forum, now that I can see your wiring diagram I would be putting a test light on following to determine earth, ACC power and Batt power:

 

white/black stripe

dark green/red stripe

blue/yellow stripe

 

If they turn out to be power and earth then get a 9volt or just a remote battery and put them on the other wires in a matching pair (green, green) to identify which speaker is which.

just becareful what you decide is "earth"

 

something like the ilumination wire will appear to be "earth" if its not turned on, as well as other power wires that don't appear to be +12.

 

i did this in a rushed install in my mates magna, blew the dash light/ilumination fuse and it took me a while to work out what i had done!

 

so best bet, when you think you have found an "earth" turn on a bunch of stuff with your test light still connected to it, and make sure that it is actually earth.

 

or just find a bolt under your dash and attach your earth from your CD player to this.

Hope this helps.

 

 

Jeez i cropped that pretty bad, LHS toyota wiring RHS typical new wiring.

Edited September 23, 201016 yr by blzbub666

Hope this helps.

 

 

Jeez i cropped that pretty bad, LHS toyota wiring RHS typical new wiring.

 

Nah hers is completely different, I sent her this last night which I wrote up out of a AE92 wiring diagram.

 

Ground - Brown

IGNITION Power - Light blue with yellow

CONSTANT Power - Gray

FRONT LEFT 1 - Pink

FRONT LEFT 2 - Violet

FRONT RIGHT 1 - Light blue with Green

FRONT RIGHT 2 - Light blue

REAR LEFT 1 - Yellow

REAR LEFT 2 - Black

REAR RIGHT 1 - White

REAR RIGHT 2 - Red

Ahh true i just googled around for a bit, that site has helped before. Ignore me Trev is the mantis.

Ahh true i just googled around for a bit, that site has helped before. Ignore me Trev is the mantis.

 

Praying?

 

I posted that to her before she had posted what her wiring colours were and it seems that they had a few different setups.

Edited September 23, 201016 yr by Trev

Yeah I found the site I got that table off may have been american, could be different spec.

 

Volt meter and a AA battery FTW.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Toyota-stereo-WIRING-HARNESS-plug-and-loom-/360258079569?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item53e10e0b51

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Toyota-stereo-WIRING-HARNESS-plug-and-loom-/360258079569?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item53e10e0b51

 

I think she was going out today to get one.

Hey everyone, thanks for the help! My little rolla has a working CD/mp3 player now!

 

I was up all night trying to do it and following everyone's advice, and in the end, I took it to my friends Dad (who's an electrician) who said I'd done EVERYTHING correctly, except that one wire had to be spliced into the continuous power wire which connects to the one from the battery. I'm leaving all that electrical stuff to the professionals now...

 

Thanks again for all your help guys, I really appreciate it. :)