You can manually wire the Alpine IVA-W205 mobile multimedia station to work with the systems in your vehicle. Typically you would plug the wiring harness from the IVA-W205 into an adapter that will interface with your vehicle, but if no adapter is available, you can solder the connections yourself. Soldered connections are more secure and last longer in the vehicular environment, which can be exposed to extreme heat and cold due to weather.
Instructions
1. Disconnect the negative battery cable from the vehicle.
2. Locate the vehicle audio wiring. Find the wiring colors in your owner's manual. Cut off the old connector from the audio system wiring harness. Strip the last half-inch of insulation from the wires. Do the same for the wires on the IVA-W205 wiring harness.
3. Slide a 2-inch section of heat-shrink tubing over each of the wires on the Alpine wiring harness.
4. Match the white wire from the Alpine harness to the left-front positive speaker wire for your vehicle. Twist the wires together. Touch the bare metal with the soldering iron until it's hot and then touch it with the solder so that a drop or two melts off and coats the wires. Use the process to make all of the harness connections.
5. Connect the white-black wire to the left-front negative speaker. Solder the green wire to the left-rear positive and the green-black to the left-rear negative wire. Attach the violet to the right-rear positive and the violet-black to the right-rear negative. Solder the gray wire to the right-front positive and the gray-black to the right-rear negative.
6. Connect the black wire to the electrical ground. Attach the yellow wire to the battery or constant power and the red wire to the ignition or switched power. Attach the yellow-black wire to the foot-brake indicator and the yellow-blue wire to the parking-brake indicator. Pink-black connects to the mute wire so phone calls can interrupt the audio. Blue goes to the power antenna control, if you have that on your vehicle and blue-white connects to the amplifier. Note that if you don't have some of these features on your vehicle, tape over the exposed wire and leave it unconnected.
7. Connect the vehicle antenna to the port on the top-right of the Alpine unit. Connect any optional inputs and outputs such as the iPod adapter or the video input and output cable.
8. Reattach the negative battery cable.
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