Installing a new head unit... question

[97cobra1]

my cd player stopped working, and my tape adapter just isn't cutting it for playing my ipod, so i went to bestbuy the other day and picked up a new kenwood unit and the metra harness to put it in.

My question's about the harness. The onet hey gave me has the two seperate adapters one for the amps one for the harness, but the smaller clip for the amps doesn't have the rcas, it's just 4 sets of wires that are coded as speaker wires for left/right and front/back speakers.

The one on crutchfield has the rcas. the harness number i got is 70-5511.

i tried searching on metras site but it won't load for me.

Anyone have any idea if this harness works or if they gve me the wrong thing?

 

[Helomech74]

You need the Metra 70-5510 harness. It has the RCA plugs to interface with the factory Mach amplifier.

 

[97cobra1]

awesome thanks.

 

[Helomech74]

No problem, I believe the one you have is used if you want to bypass the factory amp, the 70-5510 will allow you to connect to the factory amp and speakers.

 

[CzchMex]

You can use the one they gave you but bc you are supplying high voltage to a low voltage signal it will cause you radio to be way loud (not in a good way) and it will overload your amp a lot faster. The RCA harness is a better choice