Changing from Old Alpine to Pioneer car stereo

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incanus0489

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Hi all!
I recently bought a 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe which came with an aftermarket Alpine stereo. The stereo is not working and hence I bought a Pioneer DEH3400UB. The wiring harness installed at the moment is not compatible with the Pioneer stereo. My question is, is there any adapter available which can do the job? And if not what will be the best way to proceed?

Thanks a lot :)
 
Yeah, go to super cheap and get an alpine to pioneer adapter, or if that doesnt work, if the current plug isn't spliced you need to get a mitsubishi to universal, and universal to pioneer adapters
 
Or just use the wiring harness that comes with the pioneer and twist/solder to the existing harness
 
@burdles Sorry mate couldn't find the alpine to pioneer adapter on super cheap (or am I missing something?)

@ascottgill: yup, was thinking of cutting the current white adapter and just reconnect the wires :)


Thank you very much for your quick replies!
 
The wires will all be colour coded already, so just cut and match, red to red, yellow to yellow, black to black... the speaker wires u will need to pay attention, white to white, white with black stripe to white with black stripe... u get the jist :p
 
EVL20T said:
The wires will all be colour coded already, so just cut and match, red to red, yellow to yellow, black to black... the speaker wires u will need to pay attention, white to white, white with black stripe to white with black stripe... u get the jist :p
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I dont solder mine, on all the cars i do, i use Terminal blocks, that way i can change the stereo easy with another

Just cut off how many u need, i always keep the 3 "power" wires together (4 wires if u use the remote wire or 5 if u use power antenna)

The group the 2 front wires and 2 rears

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EVL20T said:
I dont solder mine, on all the cars i do, i use Terminal blocks, that way i can change the stereo easy with another

Just cut off how many u need, i always keep the 3 "power" wires together (4 wires if u use the remote wire or 5 if u use power antenna)

The group the 2 front wires and 2 rears

U-H-F-Type-Terminal-Blocks-Connector-Strips-.jpg
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Eeeweww ur one of those guys, i hate seeing those behind stereos lol
 
They look way to complicated to use!


cable strippers a nice clean twist and good ole electrical tape ;)
 
buy a mitsubishi stereo plug pigtail, if your car doesnt have one,

use the pigtail, with the pioneer one supplied with the stereo, strip ends, slide heatshrink over, solder match colours, then shrink the heatshrink, ziptie twice at the 1/3 points on the new connector,

Enjoy the next time you go to change your stereo.
 
guys spit out the $15-20 and get a plug in harness so you dont have to chop the oem plug off.
you can get these plugs to go to sony pioneer kenwood etc but if it doesnt suit your unit chop the head unit end off and solder/heatshrink them together.
thats neat and neater than splicing and not permanantly cut your harness and solder to it directly.

ive changed head units liek 6 times over the years and always my stereo harness is intact and uncut.
 
Trondabron said:
buy a mitsubishi stereo plug pigtail, if your car doesnt have one,

use the pigtail, with the pioneer one supplied with the stereo, strip ends, slide heatshrink over, solder match colours, then shrink the heatshrink, ziptie twice at the 1/3 points on the new connector,

Enjoy the next time you go to change your stereo.
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Thats how its done none of this twist and tape *poo*. Any method is better then twist and tape
 
I like the use my Pioneer DVD headunit on saturday and sunday, Sony player on monday, alpine on tuesday, JVC on wed, Kenwood on thursday and clarion on friday, all the plugs are different and i done feel like soldering then unsoldering etc :( lol
 
im going to do wire tuck on my head unit.
its gonna be hellaflush.











jokes
 
if you go buy the harness to fit the mitusbishi plug (cut the *poo* iso plugs off) and solder to the harness that comes with your head unit, it can all be soldered out of the car, so no burning things with the soldering iron.
this makes the head unit is easy to plugin or unplug. when you change headunit again just cut up the harness you made and solder to new headunit harness (simple). then you can put the oringial radio back in the car when you sell it if you want to get your headunit.

i hate the original plug from the car harness being cut off it just makes it a pain to work with. only ever did it once to once of my cars and will never do it again.
 
EVL20T said:
I like the use my Pioneer DVD headunit on saturday and sunday, Sony player on monday, alpine on tuesday, JVC on wed, Kenwood on thursday and clarion on friday, all the plugs are different and i done feel like soldering then unsoldering etc :( lol
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haha this is why the thread know as "whats your latest purchase" got changed. :thumbup:
 
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