Electrical Problem I hooked the harness up to the cars power and into my Car CD player, and i have confirmed power going all the way to the CD player but my CD player will not turn on even after trying to reset it and checking the wiring. What should be done?

bestbuy sells a harness that directly plugs into your truck. Or ebay search smart harness then go to car electronics and they are there, prewired.

you may need the ilumination, pleas google your car model year and brand and the words "stereo wiring diagrams" and you'll may find the correct wire distribution of your car

It depends on if you have an after market wiring harness that adapts the factory harness to the new cd player, or trying to hard wire into the factory wires in the car. First off, if you don't have a aftermarket harness, i would strongly suggest picking one up from Wal-Mart or automotive store, they are around $20 and save a lot of time. If hooking up this way, you just have to match the color wires to the same color of wires on the cd player. Red to Red, which is power, Yellow to Yellow which is Constant power, Black to Black which is Ground, Blue is only used when you have a power antenna that goes up when the car is turned on or if you have a amplifier, you can hook up the remote power to it, otherwise, leave it off. Then you will have your speaker wires which the fronts are White and White/Black, and Grey and Grey/Black. The rears are Green and Green/Black and Purple and Purple/Black. The ones with the Black striped go with the other matching colors with the black stripe. Then you would just plug in the factory harness to the aftermarket, and aftermarket to the cd player. If you are trying to hard wire into the factory wires, you will have to cut of the harness, find a Haynes or Chilton book at an automotive store and find what wires are what and use the color codes from above to hook back up, factory wires are always different colors. Once again, I strongly advise not to do it this way though. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Are you hooking the aftermarket player direct to the battery? Basically you should have it connected to the factory harness which is configured to do what you would like. It cuts the power when the ignition is off.

Any easily accessible key on power on key off power off circuit such as cigarette lighter harness or go directly to fuse panel and install a lead there on the ignition on side 10 to 15 circuit is fine..

power wire should be a red wire

well if your trying to actively wire it up with the car battery still connected that is why you are blowing fuses. just a heads up too if you have a live connection while hooking up the cd player you could short out other electrical devices and you could be in alot more trouble thatn just blowing fuses. the black wire is what is blowing fuses its because you have it hooked up wrong to a wire that is sending voltage not recieving voltage. ground the black wire to the actual chassis instead of hooking it to the ground wire from the harness or whatever color its grounded to which shouldnt be anything but black if you have the black wire hooked up to ANYTHING that isnt black that is why you are popping fuses. so hook up the red yellow and make your own ground you shouldnt have any problems after that.

Your best bet on that one is to go to a place that sells car audio systems or even some autoparts retailers have them,and get the proper adapter harness already made up. A few more dollars but, a whole lot less headaches.

you can use this manual , it should have the same wire color code http://inform3.kenwoodusa.com/manuals/KDC4023.pdf

you can buy the proper harness for any vehicle at most stereo shops or even some at WalMart, but you have to hook it to the one that plugs into the radio. The colors on each harness will be identical- just match them up.