One thing to note most head unit wiring harnesses also have a solid blue wire.
Blue white wire pioneer head unit.
The wire that shows less than 12v at that point is the dimmer illumination wire.
I plan on buying an amplifier for the stereo so please help me on what i should do.
Pink and off white black and green grey blue and white red and yellow red and yellow grey and red light green and black tan tan and light blue light blue and pink red and black.
Steve carter from redmond.
The blue white stripe remote turn on wire has a number of other names such as accessory wire system remote control wire etc some of the confusion about this wire may come from the different wiring methods between a factory and an aftermarket head unit.
I have a nissan pickup with a pioneer head unit put new speakers and wires from head unit to speakers now radio won t put out any sound.
The wire that still shows 12v is the accessory wire which is usually red in aftermarket wiring harnesses.
I am replacing the stock radio cd player in my 96 firebird trans am with an aftermarket pioneer radio.
Should i attach the blue white to the solid blue wire power antenna or the orange wire dash light illumination just so the amp powers on.
Most aftermarket head units usually use an orange wire or an orange wire with a white stripe for this.
Ok i am in the process of putting in a new pioneer head unit.
Although most aftermarket head units follow the above coloring scheme and it s possible to figure out what the oem wires in your car are all for without a wiring diagram installing an aftermarket head unit is much easier if you have a harness adapter.
I have blue white wiring coming from the pioneer adapter a blue wire from the metra harness a blue wire for the dvd bypass a blue wire from the antenna adapter and a blue wire for the amp.
Using a head unit harness adapter.