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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:58 pm 
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I'm not having a go at you, just my reasons for why i think these wiring adaptors are a good idea. Personally I don't like crimping anything I find the connections unreliable.


yeah fair enough, but i personally like to crimp proper terminals, and slot them into a Q plug.
are you using the proper crimpers, i have 3 different types of crimpers that i paid $80 each for, and my crimps never fail.

What are those stereo plugs worth anyway?

 

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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:21 pm 
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{USERNAME} wrote:
I'm not having a go at you, just my reasons for why i think these wiring adaptors are a good idea. Personally I don't like crimping anything I find the connections unreliable.


yeah fair enough, but i personally like to crimp proper terminals, and slot them into a Q plug.
are you using the proper crimpers, i have 3 different types of crimpers that i paid $80 each for, and my crimps never fail.

What are those stereo plugs worth anyway?


Around $18-$20. This is the first time I've used them. I've put a new DVD Mp3 HU in my car, old one into wifes car so she can use the stacker. In both installations I used these wiring adaptors, makes it real simple as you make up a loom on your bench then just plug in the HU and it all works.

 

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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:49 pm 
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i went to a stereo place and they had some pre-made up brackets there, so i just got a pair of those, they just like the normal ones with diff holes in em and flattened out.

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:56 pm 
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Just a quick question, when you get a new after-market stereo, does the back of it have plugs like the back of the ford one? or does it have wires leading out which then can be connected to the wiring harness...
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:24 pm 
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you'll have bare wires with a plug on one end that plugs into the stereo. you'll have to connect the wires to the car's wiring harness, or buy a plug like the one discussed here.

 

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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:00 pm 
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hey i just bought one of these for my new EF fairmont, the pioneer i have was connected to a fairlane where the plastic connector was different. the wires on the new EF one are different for 4 wires and i dont no which i should connect to ? any help please
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what wires are different?

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:08 am 
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the wires from my pioneer head unit to the old fairlane connector, which connects to the head unit are different from the EF / EL connector

i think there is no black for ground just a orange one spare and the only wire to match the blue there is a blue/white.

this has been done by just matching colors from the pioneer cables to the EF connector i bought is it correct by doing it like that ?
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:25 am 
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look how old this thread is :P

daniel000 ground is usually black or brown IIRC.

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:38 am 
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lol yeah i no i was desperate to get some asnswers so ive been looking everywhere.


i no ground is usually those colours but on this dam plug the only colours left are orange yellow blue and red. and on the head unit plugs there are red yellow black and blue/white
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I now use esco strip screw terminals as it takes 5 mins and no soldering. You can swap head units in 5 mins if you upgrade again. I used to spend like an hour getting it all soldered and and sleeved etc.
You can get a damaged screw out with a big pair of wire cutters to grip the outside of the torx. then buy a set of torx keys.

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:34 pm 
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but on this dam plug the only colours left are orange yellow blue and red. and on the head unit plugs there are red yellow black and blue/white
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:27 pm 
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dw found out how to do it.

the orange colour is useless because with the cd stacker, the ground black has a seperate plug.

all figured out and system is pumpin

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