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Old 10-05-2005, 09:23 AM
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Re: Illumination Lights not working

You don't need that fuse business with a tracker. That's for newer Cavaliers and Sunfires. Just wire the store harness color to color (red->red, black->black etc) to the stereo's harness, plug it in, and it'll work. You've probably blown the cig lighter fuse because of hooking that wire up, simply replace that, and it should all work.

A stereo has 3 power related wires. Black, Yellow, Red, which are Ground, Constant 12v, Switched 12v respectively. The reason you need that fused wire on other new Chev vehicles, is that they have no switched power on the harness, because the stereos are what they call "Databus" stereos. The car's computer tells the stereo when to turn on and off, so it's not needed. In that case, you need to run a wire to the cig lighter fuse in the fuse panel. Trackers don't need that.

Sorry for jumping on you about the harness thing, i just get so frustrated with posting "get a harness" every couple weeks when people mess up a stereo install.
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