Audio Wiring Harness Color Codes?

[olddirtyrake]

Well I have installed 10+ cd players just by hacking both ends and hard wiring them together. I know most of you recommend getting a clip instead of cutting factory harness. The vehicle didnt have the stock radio when I got it so Im not worried about keeping old harness. I was just wondering if anyone knows color codes for a 95 pathfinder I have been checking all over online and cant seem to find this one usually there all over the net. Would be a great help if some one could post. Thanks

[GrimGreg]

Found this on wiki answers, though I think the 95 Pathfinder uses the old plug style, the colors are right IIRC:

 

1995 And Newer

 

Typical Nissan

 

Pin What It Is In Dash Wire Color

 

A Right Rear Speaker (+) Gray

 

B Amplifier Turn On Wire

 

C Right Rear Speaker (-) Gray w/ Red Stripe

 

D Left Rear Speaker (+) Orange

 

E Left Rear Speaker (-) Black w/ Pink Stripe

 

 

F Amp Ground Wire (connect this wire to the radios ground wire)

 

G +12 Volt Ignition Wire Blue

 

H Do Not Use

 

I Right Front Speaker (+) Brown

 

J Left Front Speaker (+) Purple

 

K Ground Wire (if available) metal brackets on radio

 

L Do Not Use

 

M +12 Volt Battery Wire Pink

 

N Power Antenna Wire

 

O Right Front Speaker (-) Brown w/ White Stripe

 

P Left Front Speaker (-) Green w/ Yellow Stripe

 

AS VIEWED FROM MATING END OF CONNECTOR

 

a b g h i j

 

c d e f k l m n o p

 

 

edit to say I think the left rear colors might be different.

Edited December 28, 2009 by GrimGreg

[edicer2]

I always just get the cheap harness. I just think its easier to get the 8$ wallmart hardness and match the colors up on that hard and the cd player one. That way ifu get a new pathfinder its just up clip and reclip again.

 

 

Best way to hard wire it is to just test the wires by using a test light and seeing where the 12v constant is, then turn the key and find which additional wire lights up for the acc then make your own ground. As far as the rest take a 9v battery and then take a wire and hold it on one of the terminals on the battery and then start touching the other wires to the other terminal on it until you hear find a speaker crackling then those two wires go to that speaker and do so for the rest of the speakers. If you get real into it you can find the power antenna(if you have one) also. For amp turn on just use the one on the cd player if you are even using a another amp somewhere(factory amps gets their remote turn on somewhere else so dont worry about powering them). But try the color code above if that doesnt work try what i said it has never let me down or wrecked anything.

 

Sorry if that doesnt help

Edited December 28, 2009 by edicer2

[GrimGreg]

Yeah, even if you never want to put a factory unit back in it, it is much easier to get a harness adapter for a couple bucks, they have the wires preset/marked for what matches what. Then if you decide to change it later, unclip it and cut it off that radio and attach it to the new one. I just did that with my wife's, I had put a Sony unit in her car with the harness adapter when we bought it, she just upgraded to a new stereo with USB so I pulled out the Sony, clipped the adapter off it and attached it to the new one. Plug and play is so much easier than trying to play with loose wires in a dash.

[edicer2]

yup exactly plus uget more room to connect the wires and can do a better job so you know they wont pop apart and short out in there. i bet its less time wiring that up then it is to try and do it with out the new wire harness. It only took me 20 mins to rip my factory one out, wireup the 2 new hardness, then clip into the radio and the dash clip, put the new radio in and reassemble the whole thing. It only took 10 mins to do it to my new pathfinder when i junked the old one because i had it all wired already all i had to do was unclip and reclip it and good to go.

Edited December 28, 2009 by edicer2

[GrimGreg]

yup exactly plus uget more room to connect the wires and can do a better job so you know they wont pop apart and short out in there. i bet its less time wiring that up then it is to try and do it with out the new wire harness. It only took me 20 mins to rip my factory one out, wireup the 2 new hardness, then clip into the radio and the dash clip, put the new radio in and reassemble the whole thing. It only took 10 mins to do it to my new pathfinder when i junked the old one because i had it all wired already all i had to do was unclip and reclip it and good to go.

 

I usually pull out a tray table and solder/heat shrink everything while watching TV.

[edicer2]

ha yeah i would do that too but i know ill never get back to it again lol

[olddirtyrake]

Thanks everyone for the helpful information.

I went to best buy and the gave me a clip that didn't fit, so I figured I would try and do it myself. This ones a little more complicated than the average cd install. I look at the harness and there's like 17 wires and 4 of them are same color pink. I think I have the model with the 8 speaker system and possibly 2 factory amps? Anyways I will just be buying the clip from wall mart instead and wire it to the player.

[adamzan]

Ask for one for a 94 pathfinder. I had the same problem apparently the 95+ nissan/infinity style plugs were not in the 95 wd21, they are like 94 and prior.