March 18th, 2014
Our radios come with the correct harness you need for free. When you add the radio to our cart, we ask you for the make,model and year of the truck so we can prewire the correct harness. No kit is neccessasry for that truck. It is standard DIN size and using the sleeve that comes with the new radio is all you
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March 15th, 2014
You can tap off the rear speakers if you use the proper rated preamp adaptor. This adaptor will change the speaker output level to RCA outputs. Hooking it will not have a factor on the origional speaker sound.
This would be the correect way although some amps will accept speaker line output as the source feed. We there is a amp driving the speakers it is better to preamp the output. Most all amp manufactures have filters built in to reduce noise on the RCA inputs.
Changing the speakers out can go either way. Trying to install speakers that require a larger baffel to work in the specific opening would hurt bass quality. The mids and highs would not
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March 5th, 2014
The radio has 2 small holes on each side of the face. There you insert a set of removal keys to release the radio. Push the keys into the holes until you feel tension and then push about 1/4 in deeper to release clips, pull the radio out. Here is a link for removal keys. They are at the bottom of the
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February 14th, 2014
The Panasonic CQ RX470U is a XM ready type of stereo. When a radio states it is XM READY this means it has the ability to run a Satellite tuner which is sold as a seperate piece of equipment. The Satellite antenna plug is on the seperate tuner. The Panasonic takes the newer style tuner SIRIUS/XM shown here as the SXV200V1. This tuner will give you the best of Sirius and the best of XM. We sell it in a combo package on this page as well including the truck harness
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February 8th, 2014
A lot of the models crossover when it comes to the radio harness. The year of the truck is more important that the model of a brand If you don't see your model listed you need to pull the radio out to examine the connector. Send the pic to us and we might be able to ID it. Also the harness you might be looking at is what we call a jumper harness,
Here is an example. The plug in the hand is the one that plugs into a specific brand radio. The harness we want to mate to is the 2 shown closer to the dash..
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