My Rainy Day Project
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My Rainy Day Project
Its been crappy and raining off and on all day here at the house, so I decided to fix some wiring issues with my head unit today. Thought I'd share....
At the last meet at Toby's, I was has having an issue with the headunit cutting out at high volume. Thought it might be a bad connection at the headunit since I had butt connected them up when I put it in, and then had to shove 8ft of wire in a .5cuft hole, lol.
Little background info, 1995 Cadillac Eldorado, radio receiver in trunk, bought the factory plug wire, made my own harness to run to the front of the car. I know I could have run my wires for power, ground and speakers, but I wanted it to be easily returned to factory if desired.
Head unit is a Kenwood KVT-M700 indash and seperate DVD player in the glovebox.
I went to RadioShack and picked up some pin connectors and a pin removal tool. Went with a single 12 pin connector, but they had all different size ones for any project.
Pulled the unit and wiring, removed the excess wire that I didnt need. About 4ft worth.
Started to pin up the wires on the radio brain side.
Finished product. The pigtail is the power, ground and parking brake wire (wired to ground) that runs up to the screen.
Now, the mess that was in my dash. I think this is where my problem was.
After wiring the plug.
And connected together. Much cleaner and better connections with the ability to easily disconnect and remove if needed. These pigtails are for the power and ground of the DVD player.
At the last meet at Toby's, I was has having an issue with the headunit cutting out at high volume. Thought it might be a bad connection at the headunit since I had butt connected them up when I put it in, and then had to shove 8ft of wire in a .5cuft hole, lol.
Little background info, 1995 Cadillac Eldorado, radio receiver in trunk, bought the factory plug wire, made my own harness to run to the front of the car. I know I could have run my wires for power, ground and speakers, but I wanted it to be easily returned to factory if desired.
Head unit is a Kenwood KVT-M700 indash and seperate DVD player in the glovebox.
I went to RadioShack and picked up some pin connectors and a pin removal tool. Went with a single 12 pin connector, but they had all different size ones for any project.
Pulled the unit and wiring, removed the excess wire that I didnt need. About 4ft worth.
Started to pin up the wires on the radio brain side.
Finished product. The pigtail is the power, ground and parking brake wire (wired to ground) that runs up to the screen.
Now, the mess that was in my dash. I think this is where my problem was.
After wiring the plug.
And connected together. Much cleaner and better connections with the ability to easily disconnect and remove if needed. These pigtails are for the power and ground of the DVD player.
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Looks fun lol. If you need any help with your Eldo let me know I've torn mine apart many times lol.
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So far no problems at high volume, but I havent put the subs back in. I definitly think it was a bad connection at one of the butt connectors I removed.
It is much more organized and fits in the vehicle better. I have the brain directly under the screen behind the ashtray. It only about six inches below the screen, didnt need 8ft of wire, lol.
Everything is back in but the subs, I'll take some installed pics tomorrow.
It is much more organized and fits in the vehicle better. I have the brain directly under the screen behind the ashtray. It only about six inches below the screen, didnt need 8ft of wire, lol.
Everything is back in but the subs, I'll take some installed pics tomorrow.
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