Im at point of no return..i had the radio on and for some unknown reason it turned off not to come back on..i pulled it back out checked all connections and all seemed good. Tried it again and had no luck, so i took it all apart to check wires and power and i noticed that my 12v red wire is getting anything. So i checked the stock harness and the only wire that had power was going to the Yellow wire...is this normal?? should i just hook my red up to the yellow??

 

the yellow wire on a stereo is the power wire. usually red means power but on a stereo the red is the ignition wire. so the red wire wont get anything until the ignition is on

 

oh and if you did connect your red and yellow wires together. im pretty sure your stereo would never turn off

 

Yeah i figured that, and the ignition was on during the test....im kinda stuck, i think i might run a power wire up there...

 

what i would do is.

turn car on

test for power at red wire

if no power is found trace red wire

test power at beginning point of red wire

if no power is found at beginning of red wire. replace red wire. if power is found. you have something wrong inbetween the 2 ends of the red wire

 

you can tie the red and yellow wire toghter and run a switch near the seat to turn the radio off and on, but im pretty sure your settings would be erased everytime you flipped the switch

have you checked the fuse on the radio it self?

 

yes the setting would be erased everytime.

 

ok im sorry i was wrong. looks like red is not the ign power wire. the light green is

Radio Constant 12V+ Wire: Yellow
Radio Switched Ignition 12V+ Wire: Light Green
Radio Ground Wire: Chassis
Radio Illumination Dimmer Wire: Red/Blue
Radio Antenna Trigger Wire: Green/White or Red/White
Radio Amplifier Turn On Wire: N/A
Front Speaker Size: N/A
Front Speaker Location: N/A
Left Front Speaker Wire (+): White or Blue
Left Front Speaker Wire (-): Black or Black/White
Right Front Speaker Wire (+): Green or Brown
Right Front Speaker Wire (-): Red or Black/Red
Rear Speaker Size: N/A
Rear Speaker Location: N/A
Left Rear Speaker Wire (+): Brown or Light Green
Left Rear Speaker Wire (-): Yellow or Black/Yellow
Right Rear Speaker Wire (+): Blue or Orange
Right Rear Speaker Wire (-): Pink or Black/Pink

 

hmmmm interesting...i guess assuming causes problems, because i just hooked yellow to yellow, red, blue to blue, black to black, orange to orange...But i fixed my problem because i took the red wire from the head unit and ran it to my own power source.. I still dont have any radio reception besides like 2 stations and thats just barely..

Is there a by-pass mod for the ipod when playing movies? I can put a dvd in and plays just fine but i guess the ipod is different...

And yes i did check all fuses and they were all good....Actually i think the wire going into the harness was light green but came out red, and i checked all wires going into the harness and the only one with power was the yellow wire....

 

When connecting the Metra harness to the X920BT's harness, you're connecting same color to same color for all but 2-3 of them.

Don't be concerned with the colors that kennymo noted.

If the red wire doesn't have power when plugged into the stock harness, then you need to check your fuses.