i have an 06 Chevy Colorado and i'm wanting to install an after market stereo. i was told by best buy that my truck needs a $130 wiring harness so that my trucks gauges and chimes won't mess up. they said eventually, if i went with a cheap harness, the stereo itself would go bad as well. do i really need a harness so expensive or can i go with some thing cheaper. i have a factory stereo that doesn't have on star or anything special.
That's the typical best buy scam crap that they tried to pull on me. You don't have to buy a Top-of-the-Line wiring harness b/c it's the same setup as the cheaper one. The only thing different is probably the wire quality and that doesn't matter here.
Save yourself the trouble and never go to best buy for car audio ever again, they have no clue to what they are talking about. I went in there just looking at in dash DVD players. They tried to make the sale, then the guy asked me what car it was going into, then told me that I would need the same harness that you were told that you needed, except that my airbags would not work without it. That is when I looked at him and said is that why my airbag light is not light and the bag is functional, without this said harness and I have an aftermarket head unit in there? The only thing that you will lose are those damn annoying chimes, that is all.
