I have a Dual XDM260 radio, and for some reason the power antenna wire (blue) came with a shrink tube pre-shrunk onto the end of it. While the rest of the wires are normal and are pre-stripped. My question is, the wiring harness that I got for my vehicle 1995 Toyota Camry, (Metro wiring harness) has the blue wire available to connect to the wiring harness that came with the radio. Do I still connect both cables? Or leave the one that's covered alone? My car does have a power antenna.
The cover is just there because many, if not most, installations don't use the blue wire. The wire is there because some installations do. Strip off the cover and connect the Dual's blue wire to the blue wire in the adapter harness to make your power antenna work properly.
Hello It is the electric aerial trigger and shrunk wrapped because so few cars have electric aerials these days. As you have an electric aerial it will need to be stripped back and connected along with the others or the electric aerial will not work. Most cars if you remove the old unit and follow the wires will come to a ISO connection (2 X 8 wire connector blocks) Easiest way is to remove the old unit along with the top part of the ISO and cut the block with 5 or 6 wires off with enough wire to either 1/ Solder joints and shrink cover the join 2/ Crimp connect with straight connectors The one with 8 thinner wires is for the speakers Andy C
I've hooked up radios in all my cars, but I haven't had any cars with pop up antennas, I know that aftermarket radios have a blue wire that leads to an amplifier for subs, that's the amplifiers auxiliary cord that tells the amp when to use power from the battery so It's only on when the radio is. Now I would assume you could use this cord for your antenna, usually when you get a new aftermarket radio the blue wire has paper on it saying control wire, so with that being said, hook them up, all else fails YouTube it lol
