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Hey,

Just wondering if there are any harnesses needed for a 1994 Chevrolet Lumina Van. I am looking at installing a CD player in one and i just wanna know if its a DIN size OEM head unit or if i'll need a kit. And if there are any harnesses involved or if its just straight forward install. Thanks

Luminas (as most GM vehicles are) are din and a half... you'll need the dash kit (any GM multikit will do), GM harness (GM02B if you go by scosche numbers, I forget the Metra number), and the GM6 antenna adapter.

Metra 70-1858, 99-4500 and 40-GM10 available at fine car audio shops nationwide

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Kevin Gerry
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Another question i'm wondering is about the harnesses. WIth the head unit...will come a harness that will plug into the head unit and have wires hanging losely off the back... where would the harness go? Would i need to solder directly into the harness??

You will need to solder the wires hanging off the harness on the back of the deck to the wires going into the metra plug, then it will plug back into the factory harness conector

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wouldn't i just be albe to cut off the factory wires from that connector instead of buying the aftermarket connector....like solder the wires off the head unit directly to the OEM wires after cutting off hte plug??

You can but I see that you are a mobile dynamics install grad, they should have taught you to avoid cutting factory wires when at all possible, if not the welcome to the real world of install. You should always use a harness when possible as it can eliminate alot of unwanted problems later on. Anyone you talk to who has said that they cut there harness off to put a deck in will say they regret it now, at least anyone who does their own work. And if you say its someone elses car than lesson two is you should treat each car as though its your own and should make recomendations based the same way. Up in Canada it costs my customers 15 bucks for a harness and I have never had a single one complain about spending that money in the 2 1/2 years I have been installing, nor in the 2 1/2 years I spent selling. Save the asprin and buy the harness.

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Well put 'Rav'. Mob, spend the money, buy the harness. It takes the guess work out of the install and saves you from the Tylenol. You won't have to have your Head unit installed and say to yourself 'Where do these wires go?'

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Harv

i hate to sound like a moldy old dinosaur ( but hey, i am ) but i started in the biz long before there was a Metra that made vehicle specific interface harnesses. In those days you hacked off the harness, grabbed a meter, figured out what was what and hard wired... I couldn't imagine going back to those days....which is why i always recommend the proper vehicle harness, for crying out loud, it's 10 bucks!!!

I can only imagine that the guys posting here asking " can't i just cut off the harness? " havent had to go through that hassle......

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Kevin Gerry
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Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

CUTTING THE HARNESS IS GAY

dont be the cheap guy who cuts another harness out there for someone else to fix. spend the 8~17 dollars and buy a metra harness. stand at your work bench, take all the like colors and crimp/solder (whatever you prefer) them. or you can sit in the vehicle for who knows how long with a DMM and a 9v battery testing for wires with the GM colors like kgerry said.

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Put the scissors down!!!! Back away from it very slowly and go to circuit city or your local stereo shop and get the proper harness. If you do something the right way, you'll only have to do it once.

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Duane...

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if your that cheap....goto walmart....they're only around $8 for the harness. hell...even the dash kit is like $10

AAHH the Smell of a burnt radio theres nothing like it

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Well if there is no chance of putting the factory radio back in the vehicle then I say go ahead and hard wire the harness. There is nothing wrong with cutting a factory harness so long as it will never be used again. But the fact that you asked the question in the first place kinda worries me. By your name I would assume that you graduated mobile dynamics, with that being said you should have known the answer to the question. You should also have known where to find the answers to the kit part as well. GM colors are pretty much the same for all models. If you click on the diagrams link at the top you can find the info you will need.

PS: Incase you weren't aware, you will also need an antenna adapter, metra part #40-GM10 as referred to earlier.

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it would be easier if i had the van here so i can look at what i would need...i dont have enough experience to know what each vehicle will need and what problems i may enounter. Isn't that what the site is for....questions?? the van is in alberta....i live in bc...its my brothers car and i'm going out there for the weekend and he is wanting me to put the cd player in while i'm there for the weekend....it will be the first head unit on a actuall car that i'll be doing. So i'm just looking for a little guidence from guys/girls who have done it all before.

well then, at the risk of beating a dead horse.... take the Metra or Scosche part #'s you already been quoted and go buy the proper items you'll need to do this install.......

remember young skywalker, there's two ways to do everything and one of them's properly.......

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

Either take the parts with you or buy them shen you are there (this way if the parts are wrong you can return them for the correct ones. According to my bible (hasn't helped me win the lottery yet though) you will need 3 parts, already posted for the Metra model #'s. Here are the scosche model #'s.

Kit - GM1503 or GM1500 series kit (GM1500, GM1508) the 1503 kit is your best bet.

Harness - GM02 (may be tagged at GM02B)

Antenna Adaptor - MDA1 (may be tagged as MDA1B)

This is a straight forward install. The GM02 wire harness is color coded to the aftermarket wire harness. Do not just twist the wires and black tape / scotch tape them together. Crimp them or solder them.

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Or if you have to go to Future Shop the parts are a BAA4B, BHA1858, BKGM4. Also most kits list on the back what vehicles they work for and that vehicle uses about the most generic parts you can find.

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