Olds stereo wiring

Hi rolo1. Do yourself a favour and buy a wiring harness that fits in whatever car you want to put the stereo into. The harness has a connector for your car on one end and a dozen cut wires on the other. The colour of the wires are pretty standard, so just hook up the harness wires to the right coloured wires coming from your stereo.

If you don't get a harness, you're going to have to cut up all the wires in your car what goes to the old stereo and attach them to your new one. It can be a messy job. Also, be careful, sometimes manufacturers use the wrong colour and you'll end up frying your stereo.

Red - it turns your stereo on when your put the ignition key in.
Black - that's always the ground wire.
Blue - Don't connect the blue wire from your car and stereo together. The blue wire from your stereo is supposed to go to an amplifier, otherwise leave it alone.
Yellow - This is the wire that supplies a constant (+) power.
Orange - This is for the stereo's illumination, some stereo's don't have the wire because they illuminate themselves.

For speaker wires, there should be eight of them for four speakers. The solid ones are (+) and the black striped ones are (-). If you don't see any striped speaker wires coming from your stereo, you will have to connected your car speaker wires to the black ground wire.
PURPLE / Violet - Right Rear
Gray - Right Front
Green - Left Rear
White - Left Front

I'll say this again: Be careful, you can wreck your stereo.

Cheers

just buy the appropriate radio side connector available from Metra 71-2001, plug it in and test away

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979