Head Unit ?'s---I need some Feedback!
#13
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If your door chimes come through your drivers front speaker(which most 03 and newer trucks do) you need to buy the harness that relocates the stereo in the vehicle. We have it at bestbuy for $60 something, you need a kit $18.50 and an GM antenna adapter $11.50.
#14
Basically the expensive harness retains the factory door chime and has a built in switch wire so you do not have to find one. You however DO NOT have to buy this expensive harness. The only part numbers i know are Metra.. but the Metra 802003 is the cheap harness but you wont have door chime and will have to find a switched wire... the expensive harness is Metra GMRC01.. Good luck on your search. Oh yea no need to relocate the stereo any where exept the trash can...
#15
so there's no way for me to get rid of my fact. head unit completely??
For some reason my front door speakers have never worked anyway, i guess that's why there isnt a door chime either
For some reason my front door speakers have never worked anyway, i guess that's why there isnt a door chime either
#16
Originally Posted by 95LS1TA
. We have it at bestbuy for $60 something, you need a kit $18.50 and an GM antenna adapter $11.50.
Best Buy sold me a generic GM 1998+ harness along with the anntena adapter and dash kit. Can you give me a specific part # so i could exchange it? i dont think those guys know what they are talking about.
#19
you CAN ditch the factory HU, the metra harness I had in my truck before my alpine died was basically a box with a speaker (for the chime) and it created the switched source for the HU as well, there was NO need for the factory HU. its available at circuit city around here. And I'm not bashing you 95, but the best buy around here (I'm assuming you work at a B.B.) is useless, they tried telling me that a HU install in my truck required extensive modification of the dash itself, and that if I didn't have them install it, my airbags would deploy as soon as I used the new radio, and that it was useless to buy a new deck and not replace the factory speakers as the new deck is so powerful it will distroy the factory speakers! I called his bluff on all the install stuff and walked out.



