C5 Wired in the Trunk?? HELP
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C5 Wired in the Trunk?? HELP
Hey, Im new to these forums, Ive got a 99 red c5. My question is this, When I bought my car I remember the dealer saying it was wired in trunk or set up for a 6 cd changer. I assume that meant its wired in the trunk. I didint really care at the time but now I want to buy one of those GM ipod connectors to play my ipod in the car. Problem is that I dont know very much about cars and I know this is kindof a dumb question but can someone tell me where the cable would be in the trunk and what it looks like? thx
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That would be 12 cd changer, If your car never had one I don't think the wiring in to the rear, It is however under the passenger foot pannel, You will find 2 plugs there that you plug the new harness into and than run it to the rear, Do a search, There are a lot of diy threads on this matter.
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And it runs from the head unit in the center console, past the passenger kickpanel and along the right side rocker panel (or whatever that area is called on the inside of the car) to the rear.
You can easily see if its hooked up by pulling the kick panel (or footpanel) on the pass side (two locking tabs like the cover on the cargo bins in back) and also removing the right side rocker panel/door sill covering (that just pulls off, some velcro and a few tabs lock it in).
Niether of those require any tools for you to have a look.
Depending on what you buy, you will probably hook it up in front where it starts to go to the back.
When you see what you have, and what you intend to buy (and how that will need to hook up) you can drop by here or better, the audio section
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/audio-electronics-20/
and someone will be along to help with the hook up.
Its gonna be an easey thing to do and having digital (ipod) collection beats having to deal with CD's hands down.
Good luck.
You can easily see if its hooked up by pulling the kick panel (or footpanel) on the pass side (two locking tabs like the cover on the cargo bins in back) and also removing the right side rocker panel/door sill covering (that just pulls off, some velcro and a few tabs lock it in).
Niether of those require any tools for you to have a look.
Depending on what you buy, you will probably hook it up in front where it starts to go to the back.
When you see what you have, and what you intend to buy (and how that will need to hook up) you can drop by here or better, the audio section
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/audio-electronics-20/
and someone will be along to help with the hook up.
Its gonna be an easey thing to do and having digital (ipod) collection beats having to deal with CD's hands down.
Good luck.
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It seems to me that the 2 plugs under the foot well are different than the 2 plugs you will hook the ipod interface to. I could be wrong though.
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Yup, depends on which way you wanna go.
You can get one that connects directly to the back of the head unit, but that requires you to pull the head unit (not a major thing but takes a while).
Others will connect right at the plug by the passenger footwell, those do require that you get an adapter that is pretty much like the cable that would be there if the car was wired from the factory for a 12 CD changer (just shorter).
And others connect to the oem 12 CD cable.
Pretty sure they all require an adapter of some sort; an interface with plugs that connect to the GM harness on one side and an input (rca's or d-sub mini) to connect to the output of the ipod.
Poke around over here if you want to see whats available to interface into the GM system
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/piecorhar.html
Its just the first link I pulled up.
I did this when I added the XM reciever to the car, and then also used it to input the sound from the car PC I added later, but it was a while ago, sorry I dont have the exact name for the adapter I used.
But ist definitly very doable, just run what you plan to buy by someone in the audio section before you buy it, or you probably could even stop by a BestBuy and bring a cup of coffee to one of the installers who would be able to tell you if what you are lookign at will work together.
You can get one that connects directly to the back of the head unit, but that requires you to pull the head unit (not a major thing but takes a while).
Others will connect right at the plug by the passenger footwell, those do require that you get an adapter that is pretty much like the cable that would be there if the car was wired from the factory for a 12 CD changer (just shorter).
And others connect to the oem 12 CD cable.
Pretty sure they all require an adapter of some sort; an interface with plugs that connect to the GM harness on one side and an input (rca's or d-sub mini) to connect to the output of the ipod.
Poke around over here if you want to see whats available to interface into the GM system
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/piecorhar.html
Its just the first link I pulled up.
I did this when I added the XM reciever to the car, and then also used it to input the sound from the car PC I added later, but it was a while ago, sorry I dont have the exact name for the adapter I used.
But ist definitly very doable, just run what you plan to buy by someone in the audio section before you buy it, or you probably could even stop by a BestBuy and bring a cup of coffee to one of the installers who would be able to tell you if what you are lookign at will work together.
