Car Stereos: Installing an Elantra stereo in a Sonata, stereo wiring harness, elantra


Question
Hi,

The stereo in our 2002 died and I want to replace it with the am/fm CD player that I pulled out of our 2005 Elantra.  The stereo wiring harness from the Sonata plugs into the old Elantra stereo fine and it powers up and seems to function properly EXCEPT that I get no sound!  Is there a wiring harness to make this work right?

Thanks,
Daryl

Answer
Hi Daryl,

To the best of my knowledge, the wiring between the two are identical, so there should be no differences.

Only theory I have is that perhaps one of them has a factory amplifier somewhere that's being used instead of powering the speakers directly, but that's a long shot as I've never heard of such a thing in either of those models before.

Also, you say the stereo in your 2002 died -- perhaps the issue that caused it to die is outside of the deck, and you're just experiencing the same issue in the 2005 deck aswell?

Justin