our harness is easy to find, it should be at any stereo shop who is worth a damn. cutting the harness is just a stupid way to do it because harnesses are so easy to find, it just makes it look like your too broke to afford a 10dollar connector so you just rigged it.

 

twisting and electrical tape is NOT wrong, its just not the best way. TONS of people do it this way and have no problems at all.. i actually did mine like that back in the day, and still have NO problems.

theres nothing wrong with cutting the harness if thats what you want to do. theres nothing ghetto about it. works the same way. thats the whole point of this install, to get the new radio to work in your car.

cutting the harness is the easiest and most foolproof way to do this install.

and optimo, it doesn't make you look like your too broke if you just cut the harness and directly splice. kinda like how i did my own body work and saved a ton of money, but now it looks like im broke cuz my car has primer in it, right? laugh.gif

 

^^ tons of people do it, but it does not stand the test of time. the electrical tape adhesive melts over time and gets in between the wire strands and may cause insulation between the strands of wires instead of conduction. Use heat shrink instead of electrical tape.

Electrical tape is good for bundling wires, increasing insulation, temporary fixes, and anything you do on the outside of a wire's shielding. It becomes gooey when hot and that is not good for strands of wires.

The simplest, easiest, most proper, least tools required method I've found is to use diagonal cutters, heat shrink and a lighter. You can cut the wires with the di-c's, then use the lighter to melt the shielding, pull it off with your finger nails, slip a pre-cut heat shrink over one strand of wire, twist them together, wrap the twisted wire around the joint, then slide the heat shrink over the twisted wire joint and shrink it with the lighter.

Now there is some electrical tape called high voltage tape, AKA: "tape that only sticks to itself", which can be used. It won't stick to anything but itself. It's expensive. It's not very multipurpose. But it could be used for this if you wrap it really really tightly so that it dosn't slide on the wire. I think some engineers were sitting around getting high when they came up with the stuff like "dude, you know what would be sweet? Tape.... but it only sticks to itself, nothing else."

 

You guys are all wrong.

Best thing, and easiest to do, is to go to Circuit City, and get 2 harnesses.

You need the following harnesses (for example, I have an alpine.)

1. Alpine to universal
2. Universal to RD Hyundai tiburon.

The 2 harnesses just snap together.

Done.

Takes 5 minutes, and that's if you are retarded and have one hand.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Metra-Radio...roductDetail.do

That's an example of what they look like. If they don't have the one you need, they will special order it for you, and you'll get it in a few days.

Yes, they aren't $5 like the others on ebay, but the nice part is, when you swap stereos, you just get the new UNIVERSAL to (New Stereo), and snap it in place.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/Search.do?c....x=0&go.y=0
^^^
That's a link to all of the ones they have instock, but they can order others.

BTW, the nicest part is you don't have to worry about loose connections, or losing some of your functions on your stereo.

 

^^ that would not fit behind my Jensen VM9021TS. I've got 19 separate RCAs, 18 separate wires, A separate J-Link connection, and a proprietary connection to a separate 1/2 din DVD decoder/break-out box all in that little space.... Not to mention the antenna wire.



That is the easy way of doing it, but not the most pracitical in alot of cases. Besides, it costs money.



Most people just swap stereos one time.

 

ya but he also wasnt putting in a jensen dvd player and navigation ro whatever. it was just a head unit and all of that would fit. this is just a stupid argument. everyone does it different and until someone says, "holy sh!t, my car started on fire becasue i hooked my head unit up wrong" there shouldnt be criticism. ive done it many of the listed ways without any problems ever. and ive put in close to 100 head units probably

 

REDZ thats exactly what i was talking about. why even mess with doing something if your not going to do it right and socks to tell you the truth i think you do good work but if you dont have the money/time to do the whole project then you should just wait till you can do it correctly all at once. maybe thats not how you feel but thats just my opinion.


if you care about your car you will just do everything the correct way which is using the harnesses in this case because they make them and its a good secure connect that stands the test of time.

 

Sorry, but I don't see how not using the harnesses is not caring for your car. It's just a bunch of wires you need to connect, it's not fiber optics or something.. Sure it's cleaner to use the harnesses, but it's more trouble to get them and you pay more.. I paid about 100$ for my stereo (with which I am happy), there's no way in hell I would pay 20$+ to avoid connecting a bunch of wires. I'm not saying don't get the harnesses, I'm just saying it's ok not to, as long as you're not ghetto about connecting those wires.
Also, half of the fun is in the work, gotta love crimping those connectors or shrinking that heat wrap smile.gif

 

Sorry, but with cutting the harness and then soldering on the harness that came with the after market radio, u get a good quality connection, with a rare possibility of a bad connection. Doing it the dodgy way of using a harness adapter u get potential problems. Just make sure that u don't cut off too much, so it makes it easier to return to stock.

 

The only things I criticise are needlessly spending extra money when you can do something yourself, obvious blunders, and the electrical tape mistake. I self admittedly do not use the best method. I use the method that works best for me.

Alot of people don't realize that electrical tape is not meant to cover bare wire, over time it melts in between the strands and can cause a bad connection which may not be a big issue in a power wire, but in a signal wire it will cause distortion.