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Car audio, deck installation
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so right now i have a pioneer 6800 deck in my car and i'm looking to buy a new alpine 303, but i dont wanna pay for it to get installed, because im sure its pretty easy to just pop out the old deck and plug a new one in but im not familiar with car audio shit at all, and was wondering if anyone knows how i could go about putting this new deck in myself?
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its really not that tough to do usually. the old deck may just pop out, but you may have to take the dash apart to get to all the hardware for the deck. Id say google how to take a deck out of your car and see how to do it, but in terms of actually doing it, its really not that hard to do.
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Its not hard at all. It should take 30 minutes tops. All you'll need is a specific harness for your car which you should be able to purchase at a place that installs car stereos should run around $15 bucks. Then you'll need to electrical tape and wire splicers. Then you just plug the new harness onto the one in the dash then connect the wires on the harness to the wires on the deck. There are a bunch of youtube videos also.
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buy through crutchfield and the deck will come with the harness, the mounting kit, and instructions specific to your car.
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..he only needs one harness, so the one he has in his car currently will do just fine
hopefully for your own ease you have an imported car, preferably japanese -
i have a honda, it took me 10 minutes to install a new deck over my oem stuff
my friend has a chevy malibu, it took him about an hour to install, and he also broke part of his console because it was so fragile
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this. If you're really cheap you can cut out the old harness and find out which color wire does what for your car (its different than standard deck colors), but I would not recommend that for numerous reasons.
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haha speaking of this. I tried this method and later realized my car had too many wires on the original harness for the new deck. It was a pain in the ass to tape them back together since I was an idiot and cut the wires close to the harness. Please do not cheap out and just buy a harness haha
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Yea buy it from crutchfield and you'll get all the instructions. I put in my subs and amp from them by myself.
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Usually two or three are useless to anything but the stock deck. You just leave em hang.
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i got so confused when all my shit came in from crutchfield...they sent me so many things that i did not need but in the end i figured everything out and it worked perfect
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