Date:         Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:36:45 -0500
Reply-To:     Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Question about car receivers (taking advantage of Friday)
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <50FAF1BB.80800@gmail.com>
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Seems Vanagon related to me.  Radio for a vanagon, remote useful when
camping in a vanagon.
  There have been useful and informative threads like this before with no
objection.

Larry A.


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> "My last couple of installs were different brands but had the same wire
> colors. [...] maybe there is some standardization in this industry."
>
> Further inspection revealed that while they do use the same wire colors
> for each function, they go to different pins on the back of the radio.
>
> I asked the fellow at the car stereo shop if there were harness
> adaptors. Apparently not. It's cut and solder.
>
> Nice to see they standardized the wire colors, and the size/form factor
> of the connector, but not standardizing the pinouts seems silly.
>
> Thanks, all. Friday's over and this thread contains zero (goose egg,
> zilch, nada, nuttin') Vanagon content.
>
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 01/19/2013 10:59 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>
>> My last couple of installs were different brands but had the same wire
>> colors.  They are all probably made in China by the same factory anyway,
>> or
>> maybe there is some standardization in this industry.  I've replaced old
>> Kenwood with new Kenwood with no rewiring in the past.
>>
>