Stereo install question

[Valkyrie90AE92]

I am in the midst of installing my cd player, but one thing caught my eye. Do the basic model 1990 Corollas have no rear speakers? I thought they were on the rear shelf, but when I looked thru the trunk, there was nothing there but empty space. I mean, they could have been removed, but there isnt any indication that there were any there before...

My Corolla is a 1990 plain version, with no power anything.

Oh, another quick question: has anyone had any problems installing their CD players in this year Corolla? I had to re install the wiring harness since the precvious owner cut it up, but I cant match two wires---both are green.

Thanks

[Liter]

My 89 was basic and didnt have rear speakers BUT they do run the wire bac htere for ya so installing a set is a snap. When i installed my deck it was all trial and error dude just make sure you use a volt meter so you hook the power wires up correctly.

[albertmdh]

yeah, my 88 had no rear speakers, i put a sub in the trunk, and two reference speaker boxes on the back deck, sounds pretty good. making the front sound good is the hard part.

[Valkyrie90AE92]

Oh, I see. I thought I was going crazy there for a second. This is my first stereo install, so I was having a bit of a hard time. I'll go take a whack at it later. I guess I will need to plan for some rear speakers, then. I am not looking for anything too fancy. I mean, I like the sound of the engine humming, but a person needs his tunes, too

I will be looking for the rear speaker wires in a little bit. Are they going to be on a harness? Sorry for the newbie questions, but this is my first Toyota (my previous was a Nissan 300ZX)....

[albertmdh]

well damn, I would have had an easier day back in march if i had known there were pre-wires... where are they?

[Liter]

I found then attached to a white clip wrapped in green tape. I found by looking in the back trunk under teh brake light area on the left hand side.

[kilo_tech]

i have a 91 corolla and when you get all your wires firgured out, make sure to hook up the antenna wire also. it is a secondary ground that u need hooked up for your cd player to work right. that is what i had to do. dont know if you`ll have to do that. but just thought u might want to know

[Valkyrie90AE92]

what exactly do you mean "work right"? Wil it work at all, or will it just be full of static, bad reception, etc?

[Carlito]

my old tape deck in my 89 had a ground for each speaker: therefore there was 1 wire going to each speaker (the rear ones were added by the guy before me) and the negative branched to the metal of the car...the rear of the radio had a battery ground, and SP ground(speaker ground). what i suggest, is wat i did, i re-wired the rear myself...i got myself jvc 6x9's and stuck em in boxes cause i couldent stick holes in the rear metal panel right away. i wired them through the side of the rear seats, under the carpet all the way to the front where i pulled them up to my new mp3 cd head unit nd btw the corolla ground for the stock radio is Brown, not black

[kilo_tech]

when i installed my cd player (pioneer premier 360) i had it all hooked up besides the antenna wire and the cd player would turn on but it would keep turning on and off in 5 second intervols untill i plugged in the antenna wire and it stayed on and had no problems since then. so i am not positive if you will have the same problem but just wanted to give you a heads up. i too rewired my rear speakers which made things easier when hooking up speakers for the rear. i rewired the fronts too, but i put aftermarket speakers up front though.

[aaron7]

A negative ground speaker system? That is definately not factory! They stopped that in the early 80's!