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Anonymous Posted on Oct 30, 2010

Still installing that car stereo and I'm having trouble matching the wires. I can make out the speaker and antenna wires, but the old diagram has a few wires labeled things I don't recognize. One says ACC, another says ILLUMI CONT. and a third says BACKUP. Then there are two which are only represented by symbols: one looks like a lit lamp and the other looks like 3 lines shaped like this: / with a line at the top connecting them. My new stereo only has RED (ACC 12 volt), BLACK (GROUND) and YELLOW (CONSTANT 12 volts) to match these to.

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I can help you with 1 wire. The one with the 3 lines connected at the top is the ground.

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