Aftermarket radio in 2001 tahoe

[vwbeaner]

Quick question
I tried to put a Pioneer cd player in my 2001 Tahoe. It turned on, but I couldn't get any sound. I wired it up correctly (pretty sure). I double checked it and still no sound out of the speakers. All I used was a regular $10 harness adapter from a local shop. Do I need another adapter. I also have the antenna adapter.
No Bose, but I do have onstar (don't use it buttons and antenna were removed)

 

[skyl3rm]

Quick question
I tried to put a Pioneer cd player in my 2001 Tahoe. It turned on, but I couldn't get any sound. I wired it up correctly (pretty sure). I double checked it and still no sound out of the speakers. All I used was a regular $10 harness adapter from a local shop. Do I need another adapter. I also have the antenna adapter.
No Bose, but I do have onstar (don't use it buttons and antenna were removed)

I just had this problem a few weeks ago.. you take the pink wire from the 2nd harness (one on bottom of stock deck) and connect it into blue/white on pioneer harness

let me know if that doesnt make sense....


There was 2 harness' plugged into the stock deck.. the bottom one has a pink wire... Just cut it and connect it up to the blue/white wire thats on the pioneer harness and it'll work.

 

[Riff Raff]

I just had this problem a few weeks ago.. you take the pink wire from the 2nd harness (one on bottom of stock deck) and connect it into blue/white on pioneer harness

let me know if that doesnt make sense....


There was 2 harness' plugged into the stock deck.. the bottom one has a pink wire... Just cut it and connect it up to the blue/white wire thats on the pioneer harness and it'll work.

^this
it should be the remote turn on wire to turn on the factory amp

 

[vwbeaner]

Cool, I'll try that. Hopefully it works.

 

[gdddup]

I just had this problem a few weeks ago.. you take the pink wire from the 2nd harness (one on bottom of stock deck) and connect it into blue/white on pioneer harness

let me know if that doesnt make sense....


There was 2 harness' plugged into the stock deck.. the bottom one has a pink wire... Just cut it and connect it up to the blue/white wire thats on the pioneer harness and it'll work.

/\ this works i had the same problem last night

 

[jeremymik84]

when u cut the pink wire where are you cutting it at? just cut it from as close to the 2nd harness as possible and connect it to the blue/white wire from aftermarket or remote turn on wire??

 

[ScottyBoy]

when u cut the pink wire where are you cutting it at? just cut it from as close to the 2nd harness as possible and connect it to the blue/white wire from aftermarket or remote turn on wire??

Yep. Leave enough on the factory plug to splice it back together if you think you might ever put the factory radio back in for some reason.

 

[Doug118]

Bumping a very old thread. My factory radio only has 1 plug and there aren't any pink wires in that 1 harness. I don't have onstar or any other fancy features. I still have no sound coking from my speakers. I'm assuming I have a factory amp that needs to be powered on but don't know which wire it is. When I compared the factory plug to the aftermarket adapter, there is a brown wire on top that has nothing and 3 or 4 wires on bottom that go to nothing in the plug. There is a blue/white wire in the factory harness but I'm not sure if that's a turn on for the factory amp?

Edit: I lied. What I thought was blue/white is actually green/white. There are 2 greens, a purple, and brown that go no where in the aftermarket harness

 

[ccapehartusarmyINF.(ret)]

on the after market harness wire up the power antenna that will align with the wire in the factory harness that turns the amp on