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Brian
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 10:47 pm: | 
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I want to swap my stock radio out for my Kenwood but the factory harness in the 2001 D2 will not fit the harness on the back of my Kenwood. I tried Circuit City and Crutchfield. Both could not help.
A thread was posted a couple of months ago about this issue. Someone mentioned that a harness "kit" that would marry the two harness together was supposed to be out on the market this spring.
Has anyone else had better luck?
Brian |
ken
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 12:35 am: |
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I dont think so but you can always hardwire it in. Either way I'm sure you will lose your steering wheel functions. And the rear headphone jacks if you got them. Somthing to think about |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 02:05 pm: |
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You will earn an excessive number of grey hairs trying to put a Stereo in a Rover.
Buy a case of Guinness and hard-wire it in. The stereo, not the Guinness.
Paul |
Neal Glessner (Nealg)
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 10:26 pm: |
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I thought a VW harness would work? I remember this topic on EE a few months ago. |
Tommy Dougherty (Skydiver)
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 11:19 pm: |
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I've owned 3 disco's - my current is a 2001 DII SD. Nobody made a wiring harness (that I know of anyway), so I just did my own.
You can either trace the wires (which I had to do on my 97 & 98 Disco's) or get ahold of the factory manual (which is what I did for my 2001 DII).
I used wiretaps and put shielded blade connectors on 1 end of them and tapped them to the factory harness wires. I put the blade receptor conenctors on the ends of the corresponding aftermarket wires. Using this method, I kept my factory harness and connectors, and all I had to do was unplug the factory deck and plug in the aftermarket deck using the blade connectors. To remove the aftermarket deck I just disconnect the blades and plug the factory deck back in.
It's really not that much more work to do it this way vs just clipping off the factory connector and splicing in aftermarket wires, and you have the benefit of being able to swap decks out in just a few minutes.
I can post a few photos if someone needs them. I'm in the process of wiring up a new deck in my DII right now.
-Tommy |
David Dryden (David914)
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 07:44 am: |
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You can use a VW harness, but you'll have to modify it to work. If you're not crazy about splicing the factory wiring, it's worth the trouble.
David |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:26 pm: |
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Tommy,
Please do post some pictures of this. Thanks for the offer. |
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