80 series wiring diagram (radio)
Submitted: Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 17:38
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locallaw
Gidday All,Can anyone out there supply a wiring diagram for the speakers on a 1994 l/cruiser GXL 80 Series.I need to connect a new Mp3 CD player.Just the colour coding is all I need for the speakers.4 speakers in all.
Thanks Locallaw.
PS I rang the local toyota dealer who said they dont have it ????
Reply By: Utemad - Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 17:59
Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 17:59
Easiest way is to find the power wires and earth so you can exlude them.
Then get the wires you think are the speaker wires and make this simple tool. You will need a C size battery and two short bits of wire. Solder one wire to each end of the battery and then strip and tin the other ends of the wire.
Once this is made you can touch them to the wires in the cars plug and when you hear a speaker make a crackling popping noise then you have found that speakers wires. Then to find out which is positive and which is negative you can have someone look at the speaker (shine a torch through the speaker grill) and see if it is popping in or out. To get the right polarity it needs to pop 'in'.
Do that 4 times and you'll have your wiring code. You will probably be able to figure out the code after you have found one or two speakers using this method. Just pop them anyway to double
check.
You can use any battery but I use a C size as that seems to give a better crackle. This will do no harm to your speakers.
Have fun.
Utemad
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:07
Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:07
Neat idea with the battery Utemad, yeah I agree just work it out, once you've eliminated electric arial, power, ground, acc etc etc it's just the 4 speakers to go! Easy!!
Rating, 3.5/10 swear words.
PS The surf was a 6/10 swear words as they have a factory amplifier in the back (hidden somewhere!!) which requires a relay to be triggered, which is somehow linked to the electric arial also, heaps of fun!! LOL
The ol 80 should be a pretty simple process.
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Follow Up By: Utemad - Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:17
Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:17
Lots of those Jap imports have amplifiers in them as standard. Pain in the arse. We just removed most of them as they aren't needed if you have a quality head unit. But then you need to run new wires or fiddle with the existing ones.
The amps run off the power antenna so they are only switched on when the stereo is on. Although some stereos have two wires for this as the better ones will only have the antenna up when the radio is on so they need another wire to be on whenever the stereo is on.
Fun fun fun.
Utemad
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:22
Monday, Aug 16, 2004 at 18:22
Yeah when I origionally fitted it I was getting a humming/clicking noise out of one of the speakers, couldn't figure out how to stop it, then when I re-wired the electric arial so I could bybass it (stop it from going up when in the bush listening to mp3's) it solved the problem, now it sounds great!
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