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GoofyCamry · 10-13-2002, 10:20 PM

Do I have to do anything else besides just buying the head unit and installing it? Thnx for the help

PLRBEAR · 10-13-2002, 11:38 PM

Aftermarket headunit? Then you need the wiring harness to mate the unit's harness to the Toyota harness. Go to an audio installer to get them. They're usually made by a company called Metra and cost around $10 or so. Buy some butt connectors and a crimping tool, and make sure the negative batt cable is disconnected before you start the install. That should be it.

EasyE · 10-14-2002, 10:19 AM

couldnt have said it better myself... oh and make sure you know how to get the parts of the dash that you need to take off so you dont break em... hehe

PLRBEAR · 10-14-2002, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by EasyE

couldnt have said it better myself... oh and make sure you know how to get the parts of the dash that you need to take off so you dont break em... hehe

Thanks for reminding me. I shouldn't have assumed he/she knew how to do that. Anyways, here are the instructions for:

87-91 Camry:http://carstereohelp.com/stereoremovalToyCamry2StrR.htm

92-96 Camry:http://carstereohelp.com/stereoremovalToyCamry.htm

97-01 Camry:http://carstereohelp.com/stereoremovalToyCamry1StrR.htm

I may have gotten the years wrong, so just pick you interior layout. Hope this helps!

rayray · 10-15-2002, 04:51 AM

from my Gen3...

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?show_all=1&start=1&id=429231 5221

-rayray

oibone781 · 10-15-2002, 07:52 AM

Was sup guys, i have an orange wire on my stereo for illumination, but there was no where on my harness for me to connect it, so know i can't see the display on my cd player, were does this wire go, i know it is need?

***Phi*** · 10-15-2002, 06:19 PM

you need to tap that wire into something that provides 12V when you turn on your parking lights. Sorry, I don't know what colour wire would accomplish this. Maybe one of the other guys can tell ya.

rayray · 10-15-2002, 08:55 PM

i believe the orange wire is for the dimmer, which there was none for my head unit. i didn't connect it to anything at all. my display works fine.

maybe your HU has a dimmer wire and you need to connect the orange wire to?

-rayray

Zeek321 · 10-15-2002, 10:32 PM

just the harness , good luck !!!

***Phi*** · 10-15-2002, 11:48 PM

I had the same problem installing my HU. I tapped into every wire using a harness and still had the orange "illumination" one left over. My display wasn't lighting up at night either. I ended up splicing it into some wire. If you're handy with a multimeteer or reading wire diagrams you should be able to figure it out. Otherwise, somebody here is gonna have to help you out. Come on guys, which colour wire gives you a signal when the parking lights are on? according to the colour chart it should be green :-?

GoofyCamry · 10-16-2002, 10:52 PM

Thnx for the replies guys! Anyways, i'm not really good at this stuff, would i be better off getting someone else to install it?