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Aftermarket Car Radio Installation Guides and Disclaimer
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See your vehicle manufacturer at left for link to radio removal and installation help.

There is no standard for aftermarket car radio installation.
If there was a standard, there would only be one make and model of car, one make and model of aftermarket car radio, one kit, and one wire harness available for purchase. There would be no professional aftermarket installation shops, everyone would be an installer for car radios and there would be no need for this website. Our factory car radio removal pages will specify install help when available with "Installation", "Install", "Tech Tips" or "Tech Help", these are only guides for help with the car radio install process. Our posted car radio removal instructions help with many aftermarket adaptor install projects, iPod, XM, Sirius, Parrot, Bluetooth, video and audio when your stereo needs to be removed for adaptor installation.

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There are always modifications when it comes to aftermarket car radio installation. Filling edges of kits, radio trim panels, dash trim panels and a variety of other modifications for proper fit and operation.


  • Car Radios - There are over ten different manufacturers for aftermarket car radios, speakers and amplifiers. Each manufacturer can have over ten different models within their product line of car radios. Car radio models change according to features and specifications. Most common email received, "I have no audio after installing and aftermarket car stereo". In most cases, you have a factory amplifier. Hooking up the blue wire from your aftermarket stereo to the aftermarket wire harness will power the amplifier on. You may not be happy with the sound quality and have to bypass the factory amplifier. Bypassing the factory amplifier may cause the loss of some speakers.
     

  • Car Radio Installation Kits - Our car radio installation guides specify Metra Kit numbers when needed. There are several manufacturers for installation kits. Install kits are specific to vehicle. Use radio installation kits that are available to you locally or on the internet. All manufacturers kits for car radio installation and mounting are basically the same.
     

  • Car Radio Wire Harnesses - Our car radio installation guides specify Metra Wire Harness numbers when installing aftermarket car radios. These wire harnesses also have several manufacturers. We suggest the aftermarket wire harness, it saves time and headaches. Wire harnesses lessen the chance of mistakes for blown fuses, shorted wires and several other radio related installation problems. Using the aftermarket harness will also allow you to reinstall the factory car radio. You may not be happy with your aftermarket radio purchase, you may want to upgrade to a better model and you can use the aftermarket wire harness again. We have seen cut wire harnesses with many aftermarket car radio installations. There is no going back to the factory car radio unless you have the original car radio wire harness. All car radio installation shops sell the wire harness that mates to the factory wire harness. They do not sell the harness that mates to the factory car radio. There is a section of this website that may help if you feel the need to cut the factory car radio harness, Factory Car Radio Wire Diagrams and Pin Configuration.

  • Aftermarket Speaker Installation - There are also modifications when installing aftermarket speakers when it comes to having them fit properly. Most common problem is a loss of bass. Turning the balance left to right will bring bass back to that speaker, but mid balance position will have the loss of bass. This happens when speakers are out of phase, causing bass notes to cancel. See Aftermarket Speaker Installation, "Phasing".

 

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Aftermarket Speaker Installation, "Phasing"
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