To make a long story short, I didn't receive a harness with a recent purchase of a Pioneer Premier FH-800 BT... I ordered a Metra harness from a local retailer which fit the headunit perfectly. The OEM harness is in the mail from the vendor, but I'm impatient...

I'm installing this into a 2003 Chevy S10 with a completely hacked to shreads stock harness (Thank you previous owner)...

So what I want to do is this... I'd like to make sure the headunit at least powers up before I start wiring all the speaker wires, etc... I just need someone to confirm what I'm thinking... I need Constant 12V, Switched 12V (Accessory) and ground correct? (I'm assuming I can use the ground within the trucks harness and not run a chassis ground)

 

You can take the two power wires together(should be a red and a yellow) and put them to positive on battery, and negative the same, you can do this under the hood for ease if u just wanna power it up verify it works. Just make sure you power wire is fused.

 

Also a good trick to finding each pair of speaker leads is to use a 9v battery and one by one attatch wires til you hear sound from speaker. Cant seem to find a wiring chart for your truck but your welcome to check here to see if you can find something. http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/vehicles.html

 

car side should be
black-ground
orange-constant +12 volts
yellow or pink- ignition switched ??? dont rememeber its been a while
brown - dimmer + test by turning lights off and on and also dimming


speakers
driver side front tan(+) and gray(-)
driver side rear brown(+) and yellow(-)
passenger front light green(+) and dark green(-)
passenger rear dark blue(+) and light blue(-)


hope that helps... always measure your power wires and speaker wires with a DVM before making connections there are multiples of certain colors in the car side of the harness and definately dont want to be connecting the brown dimmer wire to a speaker output from the deck

 

but you need to be carefull not to pop wires in cars that have factory amplifiers

 

Thanks guys! I've got the wiring schematics for the truck luckily...

Orange is 12v constant, green is 12v switched (weird I know), and black is well... ground, lol.

I tried today and got nada, not a thing from the head unit at all. I'll give it a shot directly off the battery tomorrow...

 

Most of em are destined to be paper weights anyways lol, specially bose!
Think they had tested those with 110 sheets with a wind speed of 82.5 mph, amp weighs 1.2 lbs, i think they may have over rated lol

 

Red wire "why are you so sad"

Black wire "I've been grounded"

 

sdime... my favorite... if your still having issues man let me know iv wired a ton of these for buddies and as well even gone through the process of putting 01-03 dashes into a 95..... <<<< not easy at all

 

Looks like this head unit is DOA. I tested the leads out from the harness and had everything hooked up correctly. Head unit won't power up, no display, no noise, no nothing..

What a pain in the *** this has become.