Blue White Wire Pioneer Head Unit

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.

Blue white wire pioneer head unit.

The wire that shows less than 12v at that point is the dimmer illumination wire. 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. 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. Using a head unit harness adapter.

If only one wire ever had power in this step it is the. I am replacing the stock radio cd player in my 96 firebird trans am with an aftermarket pioneer radio. Most aftermarket head units usually use an orange wire or an orange wire with a white stripe for this. 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.

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. The wire that still shows 12v is the accessory wire which is usually red in aftermarket wiring harnesses. I bought a harness for my new pioneer stereo but the harness does not have a blue white wire while the stereo does. Steve carter from redmond.

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. The instructions from the pioneer manual instruct me to attach the blue white wire the system remote control wire from the head unit to the control terminal of the amplifier.