So I had a little clarion head unit but going for a newer Kenwood, and the wiring is confusing me.

I got the Kenwood as is with its harness and the clarion was just cut out just before its harness plugs into its unit.

 

Kenwood - Kdc mp5043u

http://manual.kenwood.com/files/4a56e3f34ca7c.pdf

 

Clarion - DB356MP

 

Cheers

Spencer

Edited June 19, 201115 yr by Spencer

Hard to say with out really being there. It could be easier to rewire the whole lot.

 

Usually this:

Yellow - battery/main power

Red - accessories/ignition

Black - Earth

Blue - remote amplifier

 

grey & grey/black - front right

white & white/black - front left

purple & purple/black - rear right

green & green/black - rear left

 

they are the main wires, usually anyhow.

Edited June 19, 201115 yr by GJM85

Hmm as you can see where the clarion was cut , I have

 

2 x Back/Red

2 x White

1 x Red

1 x Blue

 

:hmm:

 

How hard is it to re-wire the kenwood not using the clarion harness?

How hard is it to re-wire the kenwood not using the clarion harness?

 

It's quite simple. Using the Kenwood wires, run a wire from your battery to the yellow wire(main). Tap into the cigarette light and bridge a wire to the red(accessories). Run a wire to a solid earth and hook it up to black.

That will enable your stereo to turn on and off and retain memory without draining your battery wire.

 

From there just run new speaker wires or track down the current one and hook them up as I stated in the previous post, making sure positive and negative don't cross over between the head unit and speakers or they'll be out of phase and sound like poop.

 

It is very easy.

Ok so going to start rewiring this in a couple of minutes , wanted to know if I can run the yellow cable from the head unit to the Power lead thats coming from the battery to the amp? I'll just split it. then run the red ( accessories ) to the Ciggy Red. and black just to the earth.

 

Cheers

Basically all you need to do if find:

 

Constant power - This will have the battery voltage on it regardless of ignition switch.

Switched 12V - This source should only go active when the ignition is switched to "Accessories"

Earth - Usuallly the black wire, connect it to the chassy.

 

The colours for the power wires always vary so do not trust what you read. You NEED a multimeter to

detect voltages on wires.

 

Speaker wires should always be reffered back to the manual or in colour "pairs". ie Green & Green/Black would be one speaker.

and following that type of colour coding. More oftern than not the manual is your best tool.

So yea, didn't go to plan .

Had the yellow wired up to the battery

Black to earth

And red to accessories

 

Turned the car on nothing! so looked everything over , check the earth noticed that wasn't a good ground so wiggled it deeper into its hole and pofhttt smoke started coming out the Aux hole on the face :( . Checked the little 10 amp fuse at the the back of the unit and it was not blown. Haven't tried anything since. I think the unit is FOOOOOCKed

So yea, didn't go to plan .

Had the yellow wired up to the battery

Black to earth

And red to accessories

 

Turned the car on nothing! so looked everything over , check the earth noticed that wasn't a good ground so wiggled it deeper into its hole and pofhttt smoke started coming out the Aux hole on the face :( . Checked the little 10 amp fuse at the the back of the unit and it was not blown. Haven't tried anything since. I think the unit is FOOOOOCKed

 

It may be a little late but you should always fix your earth with a bolt or screw and always disconnect your battery when fiddling with wiring.

Yea was in 1 of them bolt holes under the plastic strip that you step over to get into the car.

Is there and way I can test the unit?

Black cable on black terminal

Yellow cable on red terminal

?

 

Cheers