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Old 03-16-09, 11:39 AM
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Default 94 ls400 radio wire harness question

I've purchased the metra dash kit and the wire harness which is labeled for 1987 toyota and up. It is the harness that came with the kit.

i'm installing everything until i came to the harness and was puzzled. The harness does not fit into the factory harness. Its too small and the colors does not match up.

If you have a 94 and installed a harness on your car please help me.

Did your aftermarket harness plug directly into the factory harness or did you have to cut and splice?

if you had to cut and splice can you tell me what colors to coordinate?

I know it takes a long time to disassemble everything but is there a way for you to take a picture and show me what it looks like?

I went to lexls.com and saw a picture but it was unclear and what it looked like.

The first picture is of the factory harness plugs




the second picture is the aftermarket wire harness plug
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check ur pm i answered ur question....
Old 03-16-09, 03:51 PM
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replied.


Anybody else want to help a fellow LS owner out?
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is that the wire harness that came with the head unit? or is it the separate one that u bought,

basically all u do is take the harness that plugs into the head unit and match up the colors with the other wire harness that plugs into the stock wires. green with green, blue with blue u no the deal
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Originally Posted by Li Ls4
is that the wire harness that came with the head unit? or is it the separate one that u bought,

basically all u do is take the harness that plugs into the head unit and match up the colors with the other wire harness that plugs into the stock wires. green with green, blue with blue u no the deal
I was hoping that it would be that simple but the harness that i received from metra does not match up with the factory harness.

the harness for the aftermarket radio is even more simpler.
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do u have pics of the wire harness that came with the head unit and a pic of the other wire harness that plugs into the stock wires
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the 2nd pic in my first post is the pic of the harness that came with the dash kit and i'll get a picture of the aftermarket headunit harness in a bit.
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this is the metra harness that came with the dash kit.









And this one is the kenwood harness that came with the cd player.

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BB-WHTY2
thats the kit number u should have by metra
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Thank python.

I'll be emailing the seller to see if he can send me the right one. Thanks a lot really
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np bro...good luck, keep pming me if u need to and we will figure it out,gotta work tomorrow though
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hate to bring a thread back from the dead but i just wanted to confrim if the BB-WHTY2 will work in a 1990 lexus ls400. maetra is teling me to use the 70-1761 kit

others told me just to harwire the double din to the factory wiring. (appradio 2 is the din going in btw)

i dont mind spicing into factory but if the adapter is just $7 why not...

Toyota Wiring Harness 1987 & UP Metra BB-WHTY2
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TOYOTA WIRING HARNESS WIRE ADAPTER 70-1761
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neither one will get the OEM sub working.
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Thats fine I don't think it works anyways plus there will be aN aftermarket sub in place of the stock.
But both harnesss work or the one I mentioned?
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