Find remote wire connection for sony cdx ca400

their should be a blue white wire on the back of the radio. this wire is called the amp turn on wire connecting to this wire will provided 12 volts when the xplod cdx gt520 is turned on but if you press the off button on the radio the 12 volts will drop to 0 volts but when the radio is turned on the 12 volts will come back.

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You need a radio removal kit which has the two tools to press the buttons on each side which are in the tiny slots and will allow you to slide the radio out.

The signal wire from the receiver is usually blue and connects to the signal line of the amp.

if there is no i pod input on the unit you need to buy a fm modulator to do it

Does your car have a premium sound system? Assuming that your cd deck is fine, try connecting your remote turn on wire from the sony to the corresponding wire on the car(if you bought a wiring harness, just match colors). Also some chryslers used a ground to turn on the amps.. a black wire with a female connector as well as a heavy ground ribbon cable... connect those 2 AND the ground to your stereo to enable the amplifiers.

sounds like you connected the amp turn on lead to the power antenna wire coming from the deck, so the amp turns on when you have the radio on, but turns off when playing cds. you need to connect the amp turn on lead to the amp remote wire.

You should check with Car Toys or Best Buy but you will probably need an adaptor and a wiring harness. If your doing it yourself your going to need to know how to get the stock radio out and the wiring diagram for the Aveo. Sometimes you can find the wiring diagram on Google by searching for it but usually finding diagrams for 2008 vehicles takes a year or two before it becomes available.

If your CD player has a tuner in it already you shouldn't need one. If it doesn't have one, that presents some other options.

Just connect together the solid blue wire on the main harness to the radio with the blue/striped wire. The blue wire is for the power antenna and the blue striped is for the remote amp. but if not connected together only the fm/am has outputs to the line output RCA jacks. I learned this through Sony's tech line and it works perfectly now.

I have the same radio, the radio's harrness has a red wire ignition 12 volt,yellow battery 12 volt, black ground, and a blue Iam not positive it can be the amp, or illumination.