vinny R

I am removing the center console to try to find my convertible top relay, I heard it is under the console. I took the radio out and as you can see someone spliced the new radio into the old harness. What are those 3 wires that are cut and not attached? 2 orange and a blue. Did those go to the old radio and not needed now? Thamks for any info on this.

Drew

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That sure looks like an aftermarket adapter. The stock radio didn't have a female plug, the harness just clipped into the back of the radio directly.

Usually those adapters have the wire's purpose printed right on the wire.

OrangeBird

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Drew is correct , if you look closely you can see that the car's original radio plugs are plugged into that aftermarket adapter harness , and so as to the three extra wires it's likely that adapter covers other models with some option or other that isn't being used in your setup .

You are darned lucky that nobody did cut anything , the cutting usually involves someone who won't buy the adapter harness and instead cuts the original radio plugs from the dashboard harness , and your original plugs are still present and uncut .

A car's original wiring harness is kinda like it's virginity , once defiled there is no "revirgining" anymore than there is any "unhacking" to make the original harness factory again ....

vinny R

Thanks guys, I see what you mean now. I thought the big white connector was the factory one.

Here are a couple of connectors I found unplugged above the HAVC control. Any ideas on these? Maybe for other optioned cars?

Abubaca

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Ha!!!!!!!! Don't I know THAT!!!!!! ....in my case though, I was the young kid doing the de-virgining. I was doing the hacking. I REGULARLY have to go in a de-hack what I've done. Thankfully, I typically KNOW what I've done, so fixes are pretty easy, and I DID keep the pigtails that I'd previously cut. Did some of that this weekend in fact.

John in RI

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The larger plug looks like a rear defroster plug,... the smaller one is Full time power ( Orange ) and Accessory power (Pink) for other additional options; might be power windows, power antenna or something like that.

vinny R

Thanks John. I need an aux power that I was going to tap into the fuse panel for and I will just use that pink wire.

I took care of the virgin part already. I had that plastic plug that connects to the HVAC control burn up and melt the plastic. I had to butt splice a good one from a wrecked car.

That is some funny schitt OrangeBird!