This video is how to wire your aftermarket radio without buying a wiring harness in a Chevy impala. And use the factory amplifier. Will not have the door chimes though.
Just a FYI I did this to my car this evening. I used a harness to put a speaker for chimes under the dash and this white wire he splices into in the trunk is the same as the white wire leaving the radio harness. You can clip it behind the radio and splice in there, saving you the work of running wire to the trunk.
alan king I didn't find it behind there. But then again, I wasn't looking for that wire exactly. I stumbled upon this wire while testing in the trunk. But thank you very much for the tip. I no longer own the car or I'd do an update video and give you a shout out.
Dude will this work if i have monsoon? I can just get a harness for my car cut the amp wire from the factory harness and connect it to the amp wire on the stereo harness??? Why does it have to get cut if you are connecting it again anyway?
@@user-zy1ky5qg1k I hope you didn't strain yourself to much coming up with that explanation of your useless comment. You wasted both of our (my) valuable time. Thank you and good day sir.
@@dvsaproducts sorry Guy didn't mean any disrespect... A doctor has a testescope hope I spelled it right... A carpenter has his hammer.... Don't know how to put it but you read me wrong.... I had a good friend when he needed to work on something major he lit a cigarette that's when I knew he was going to do a great job ... So
Hey. Thx so much! I've been all over the net and your vid so far was the best on helpin me out. I just have the base model 04 Impala and just needed a $5 plug and your help and done.
Aye man I have an 06 Buick lacrosse it has the same connectors and stuff but I don’t have no white wire and I don’t wanna just go clipping wires and stuff because I’m also having the same problem
You do realize you didn't actually bypass the factory amp. All you did was hack into the factory harness instead of buying a new one that would have just plugged in. Then you just took the amp turn on lead or power antenna wire and hooked it directly to the factory amp. Without powering the factory amp you get no sound. Therefore you did not bypass anything. I have an 02 Yukon and installed an aftermarket radio. With the wiring harness adapter you can easily hook it up without cutting wires. You do have to connect the amp turn on lead from the radio to the new harness usually blue wire to blue wire or else the radio will come on but you won't get any sound.
Yes we all know that. Im glad your radio is working great. But this is for those who can not find and/or want to dish out an extra $40 to Install a radio in a "hooptie" work car.
Daniel Barrett, I have a 2012 Chevy Traverse with Bose speakers in the doors. I bought a Dual touchscreen radio and the interface. My husband wired everything. The radio comes on, however there is NO sound coming from my speakers. Could he of wired something wrong or am I missing something?
@@joycewilgus3689 you need to buy the $50 harness or do the hack i did here except the white wire is behind the radio. Eliminating the need to go in the trunk.
I Personally think it was a great hack. Especially since the harnesses and steering wheel control for my car (04 Bonneville ) cost over $125 and took a week to come in on order. A interface is definitely the better way to go, keeps all original chimes/warnings works with factory amp even onstar works. But you’re absolutely correct he didn’t bypass the app he found the amp turn on.
I recommend going to PAC audio They have plug-and-play interfaces with or making model vehicles. I’ve been installing car stereos for a long time some of the interfaces don’t actually work with factory amplifiers. GM vehicles especially I’d recommend going to pack audio and just purchasing the interface they’re a little pricey but for me time I money.
Nice video thanks for posting. Since I also have an alarm/remote start unit I tapped into the secondary ignition wire to trigger an external relay so the relay can supply power from the orange 12 volt constant from the factory harness to the red 12 volt switched/ignition wire on the aftermarket radio harness. I then relocated the factory RDS radio to the trunk and connected the necessary power and data/bus wires to the unit so I can retain the ability to reset the (change engine oil, low tire pressure) and other features that the RDS factory unit is needed to change. I have a 01 Monte Carlo SS the 2 wires for the Onstar audio have also been connected to a hi/lo converter and feed to the left front channel of my 4 channel amp using an RCA Y adaptor to have a kick ass Madison Square Garden like system and still retain all the functionality of the cars original setup, one day I will take the time post a video explaining all of this as you have ...again nice video great info thanks for sharing. The like and subscribe button have been pressed.
I cant get any sound and ive cut my wire harness completely should I connect my in and out together amd also tap into the white wire to get sound you think.?? Thanks in advance
the white wire is the "remote" wire for the factory amp. wire the radio as normal, and connect the white wire to the remote wire on the radio. everything shoud be behind the radio instead of running the wire to the trunk as i did here.
Nice job. These vehicles have a cambus system and are extremely challenging to wire without the aftermarket kit. I also own a GM Vehicle with this Canbus system and I found everything you said to be true. No accessory power turn on, no amp turn and no sound. In the end I had to purchase a GM Can-Bus interface and steering wheel control module and I’m an auto technician. After all that hard work I’m only wondering why you didn’t find a different accessory power source like a cigarette lighter or a fuse tap. Either way nice work and thanks for the video.
I’m late but I jus bought an 05 impala and Someone cut the wiring harness so I have to wire them straight but don’t know which colors go to which colors
no onstar. but im pretty sure it should be exactly the same. i know others have commented and said the wire adapter was pretty cheap if ordered online. hope this helps.
So I'm getting sound with out hooking up the stock remote wire but the sound is very low and when I turn the aftermarket radio all the way up it gets staticky is that because my connections aren't good
where does the white wire originate from? Id rather intercept it somewhere in the cabin, behind the dash etc... any idea where it ends up on the other end?
Some Help ! Own a Mazda 6 bose sistem...amp is dead..i dont want to buy another amp which is 200-400£..i radher buy an aftermarket double din stereo with amp incorporated ! So i have to disconect the bose amp located under passenger seat and the original stereo.. lets asume that i have instaled the afternarket ddin with all wires& power speakers..but whats happening with that conectors which i have disconected from the dead bose amp? do i need to conect betwen them somehow!? I think ,if they arent connected in to the bose amp there's a dead end or ?
So I would take “blue remote” wire from HU... splice it into the white wire from stock harness and I’d have sound? Aftermarket HU is hooked up. Just no sound
You can't come off of your factory amp to another amp that's the problem I'm having right now with my Tahoe it's being double fed making my amps go in to protection mode. I'll try that shitt though and see what happens it can't get any worse than what it already is
@@dvsaproducts I was watching another video and a guy figured out that it was a plug on the alternator sending too much power to the amps I haven't tried it yet I'm going to be really pissed off if that's all I had to do is unplug a wire on my alternator and I cut all the wires to the factory amp lol
No. I don't believe I did. If I remember correctly. It all connected to the bigger gray block. And I was told the white wire is behind the radio also. So you don't need to run wire to the trunk. I hope you find this helpful.
josh f . for a new amp, you would just add it as normal. Just split your remote wire from your head unit. 1 wire for factory amp as done here and 2nd wire would go to your new amp.
I have a 03 Cadillac escalade and was trying to avoid that bs aftermarket wire harness kit to retain the chimes and onstar. I did buy the radio harness kit for $13 from autozone since I wasnt exactly sure about splicing to the factory harness. So the radio does power up but nothing coming thru the speakers. Everyone keeps telling me I need that damn kit, but I dont wanna drop $140 on it. I've watched your video a few times and others but I still get no sound. I've been at it for 3 days and today I really got stumped cuz after taking out the whole center console to get to the amp...I followed all the wiring and it lead me to a secondary amp behind the glove box!!! I'm fucken lost man...any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Don’t do this just pay 7$ for the aftermarket harness that just plugs in… this will just lead to issues and a headache when you can get the female plug and make your life 10000x easier
Man I bought the harness and did my stuff completely right I always do on every car I’ve owned and this is the only one I’ve ever had any trouble out of I don’t have any sound coming to my speakers at all and I need to figure out which wire from the factory harness is to the amp so I can connect to it and have sound I have the same connectors as him but no white wire at all
So you post this comment why? You could have clicked to a different video. With that said, thats not the point of what im doing here. Besides, now id never have to buy a wiring harnesses again.
What is the purpose of this comment? if you know how to do it the "right way", why are you watching my video? cant be wrong if it works. and still works.
This car doesn't have a switched turn on wire. That's why harnesses for most gms come with a separate wire. U run it to the ignition or run it to the fuse box. I run mine to the fuse box
I'm truthfully confused af. Why cant you completely ditch the factory amplifier? Like unplug all that bs in the trunk (morph the blue harness to the grey harness) and bridge it color to color? Will that not work? Does the car not turn on if the amp is unused? I was wanting to slap a system in my impala but not after watching all this...
Im one of the people that has to repair this kind of hack job when somebody else buys it and slowly their vehicle starts going haywire and shit. Please leave grandmas extension cords intact and leave wiring to the pros.
If you were a "pro" you would know what i did here. But you're not. Fyi, that's speaker wire. No extension cords were harmed in this video. Why did you comment? Cause you're a miserable person? I been doing this shit since i was 10 yrs old. Why don't you learn something. I can do what you do. Its easy to read instructions.
roderick luckett, just do exactly what I do here. The white wire is the remote wire on the factory amp. And yes the remote wire off of the after market radio.
dvsaproducts I have a 2002 gmc envoy with Bose and on star. Connected a new stereo but no sound. Can’t seem to find a wiring diagram for this. Please help me. 951-385-7405. Thank you in advance
You shouldn't comment useless information on someone else's channel. Just because you aren't smart enough, to figure something like this out, it does only mean just that. Rather than learn you criticize. Worthless. Move on with your petty nonsense.
Show us again how you did not bypass your factory amp lol.. you wired it exactly the same as you would normally bud. Your radio wires are connected directly to the vehicles radio harness which means your radio is still playing off your factory amp. You just made a pointless video and wasted your time cutting your turn on lead from your amp lmao. Also you didn't find ACC 12v because GM does not have that ACC wire in there harnesses unless you buy the aftermarket wire harness for amplified systems with door chimes and onstar if so equipped. Normally you can just run a ACC wire to the audio or amp fuse in the fuse box..or even ACC fuse .. Bypassing your factory amp means you would have had to unplug the amp and splice all the speaker wires An run direct to speakers or made a harness to connect input and output amp wires together.. sorry to say but if you disconnect your factory amp... you not gonna have any sound bud...that means the amp is still powering the speakers.. it's ppl like you that make ppl waste money on burning shit up on there cars. You have not the slightest idea as to wtf your talking about here... why make a video? To everyone watching this b.s... don't follow these directions because it's 100 percent wrong.
Your extremely ignorant. Correct, i didn't exactly bypass the amp. And correct the wire is in the back of the factory radio. However, there is no possible way to burn anything up. The video helped quite a few people. The point of the video was to not buy the bs aftermarket part. Not much i can say to idiots like you. Hope you have a better day.
And you obviously don't have any idea of what you're talking about. Since it worked perfectly fine. I didn't even pop a fuse. Since you dont know anything about electronics and would probably fry something. Best you leave it to the pros in your situation.
