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p220sigman
Mar 15, 2016Explorer
I would be tempted to start from scratch and replace all of the wires. I'd look to retain the antenna wiring, power/ground wiring (if you have it and can identify it), and speaker wiring (again, if you have and can identify it).
From my younger years as a car audio installer, it was usually quicker and easier to replace a bird's nest of wires rather than trying to determine what they do and where they lead to. I've even seen where the person who did a previous install would change color from one end to the other so that a red wire at the head unit would be a green wire at the amplifier. It can make tracking down issues very difficult and time consuming.
From my younger years as a car audio installer, it was usually quicker and easier to replace a bird's nest of wires rather than trying to determine what they do and where they lead to. I've even seen where the person who did a previous install would change color from one end to the other so that a red wire at the head unit would be a green wire at the amplifier. It can make tracking down issues very difficult and time consuming.
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