wires on the Alpine CDE-9843

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:32 pm

on the wiring harness of the cde-9843s the remote and illumination/dimmer wires have a little connector on the end with rubber around it. what should i do about it, since im going to install it tomorrow, should i just cut of the one on the remote wire and just crimp it, or leave the connector thing and crimp it with that thing? also is twisting the wires and warpping them in electrical tape bad?

and since i have the wiring harness that i got from crutch field, it basicly has to be connected from color to color and the wires on the alpine harness that has the black stripe on it goes to the negative on the harness adapter right?

Nick Drake · Post by **Nick Drake** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:45 pm

Just cut the connectors off and crimp, that's what I did and everything works and it was easier.

P.S. You're correct on the black = neg thing.

P.S.S. Just realized that my girlfriend has that deck in her car, she loves it.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:52 pm

is it bad to jsut twist the wires together and wrap it in electrical tape, ive seen people on caraudio.com suggest it. or should i jsut get some butt connectors and crimp it that way?

lilolneon · Post by **lilolneon** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:26 am

i used a wiring harness on mine so i could have the stock conector, and i just twisted the wires and used electrical tape on them... when car-toys installed my amps for me, they went back and crimped everything...

fireantz · Post by **fireantz** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:27 am

Electrical tape will work but it's a better idea to use wing nuts or even better to crimp or even solder them.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:02 am

if your gonna twist... make sure your twisting both wires together and not just wrapping one wire on the other one.

what i do is twist, soder, and tape... never had any problems.

lilolneon · Post by **lilolneon** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:24 am

what i do is I braid the wires together like you would braid hair, then take and twist that, then i take some needle nose pliers and curve it like a C into a ball then smother it w/ electrical tape... my connections aint goin nowhere

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:57 am

it must be trying to install the deck with just a flashlight, or something. but why does the wiring harness have 2 plug things and the harness that came out the stock deck only have one? what in the world do i connect the aftermarkey harness too? im confused and kinda tired right now. so please bare with me.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:02 am

you might of got the wrong harness... my stratus coupe had two plugs. it was an 03

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:04 am

crutchfield sent me this one

so that means i got the wrong one?

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:10 am

is your stock deck out? look at the back of it... do you see one big plug or two... if two, one is directly under the other one... it might look like one

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:17 am

nope its one.

i was supposed to get this one huh
i wonder if crutchfield would send me a new one for free.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:20 am

^ yep... you can go to your local worst buy or circuit city... they should have it. hell, maybe even walmart or kmart. should be around that price... no more than $20. unless you wanna wait till you get ahold of crutchfield and they replace it for free.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:23 am

damnit....crutchfields database is incorrect on neons. but i guess ill jsut dish out $20 or so and get a harness from walmart or something, and then i would need more butt connectors too.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:36 pm

yes, crutchfield said they have one on the way for me. they said i picked something wrong when i ordered or something.

Loud-e-nuf · Post by **Loud-e-nuf** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:10 am

So you got an 02 with the 03+ stereo? I've read that there's an adapter you can get from the dealer to do this but that would mean that if you traced your harness back you would find the 2 connectors you need. I've done installs in 4 03's and 2 02's and I've found that the 03 is when they switched harnesses
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Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:06 am

woot woot....just got my harness today in the mail, all of it free of charge.

but since on the harness it has a ground wire, can i just cut off the connector on the end of the headunits ground wire. and just crimp those 2 wires together.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:24 am

yep, just match all the colors... and connect them togeter

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:23 pm

damnit...all these places in my town are teh suxor. all of them dont have gold plated o/u ring terminals. i went to 2 radio shacks, an audio alarm store[how can you be out of o/u rings?] , and kragen. this is making me mad. and i didnt feel like driving around in oakland without my license.