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Originally Posted by ChrisRC84
Ok here is the deal about aftermarket cd players and a 2003 Chevy Silverado with a Bose system. I had this same problem. There is no power running to your radio with the Bose system, it runs off the amp from the factory. You need to go somewhere like BestBuy or a car audio store and get a wiring harness. It costs about 120.00 and has a box that goes with it. I don't know why they did this but they did. I paid more for the wiring harness than I did for my aftermarket radio. The harness you will buy has two separate pieces and one plugs into both ends of box that comes with it. I think one is 16 wires and the other is 24. Been a while since I put mine in.
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I went to the audio place to get the wire "correct" wire harness for this system, the one they special ordered in that was supposed to be right, they had asked I have my factory stereo out so they could look at the truck harness. the one they got me was exactly the same as what I had except it had a smaller harness with it as well. my truck only had one harness in the dash to the stereo, but there is another plug on the back of it for a smaller one. the guy said the one he got me wouldn't work do to the fact I didn't have the smaller harness in the dash to plug into.
He printed me off a wiring diagram for the bose system, and told me since everything else was working except for the sound, to just plug the harness in I have and instead of matching up the aftermarket speaker wires to the plug, following the truck side speaker wires through both plugs and hook them up that way, I don't care about the wire colors, but I would really rather have this all clean looking and hooked up right instead of hacked together.