QuestionI have a 1995 Saturn Wagon. I'm installing a cd player. I need to connect the wires, but I don't know which wire is which. What color wire is what? Thanks
AnswerWell you qualify for the std, reply.
This the test I run when working on a car where a previous owner has ripped the connectors out of a used car and the new owner is in the same boat as you. so armed with your 12v probe or test meter, some paper masking tape and a felt tip pen, here ya go!
Speaker wires. (non-amplified) these are tested with a AA battery across a pair of wires and you will here a 'pop' from the speaker,
These are normally twisted together in pairs (if you are lucky) and usually in a loom of their own before going of to the four corners of the car and are the same colour for each pair but one with a colour trace on, i.e. blue and blue/white, green and green/white.
Label it (e.g. left rear), continue until all four pairs are identified and labelled.
Earth one side of your meter or tester to a metal part of the car, probe each wire until you have a wire that is live all the time with the ignition OFF, label this ‘+30’.
Switch on ignition and redo test until you find another previously dead wire now live, this is ‘+15’.
Switch off ignition and switch on the side / park lights, repeat test until you find a third live, label this ‘lights’. Switch off the lights
You should now have two or three left. One will be earth, (usually black or brown); one could be to an amp and or electric ariel (usually blue or blue white) and one for phone mute if fitted. Clip tester to +30 and probe one of the remaining wires, if you have an electric ariel it will go up. Connect your DIN plug to the correct wires and jobs a good un’.
DIN connections are.
Speakers
Right rear -, right front -, left front -, left rear-,
Right rear +, Right front +, left front +, left rear +
Power block viewed from cable side
Phone mute (white),/ n/c, / ariel & amp (blue), /ignition (red)
N/c, / 12vlive, (yellow or orange), / lights, (various colours),/ negative (black)
