Aftermarket Wiring Harnesses

When I had my monte carlo I purchased my wiring harness from audiowearhouse for $125 i cant help but think that I was ripped off. Can i use this wiring harness on my car? Anyone know of a way/site I can get an aftermarket wiring harness cheaper?

Lol umm yes you were ripped off unless theres some secret technology im unaware of that they sold you wiring harnesses go for 10-30$ tops

U win some, you lose some... anyway... where would I get one?

Visions, The audio section of the cardomain store, walmart, canadian tire

aha! now i know why it was expensive. I had the onstar so I had to get an expensive one.

O ok that makes sense then i was gonna say you got hoseedd but that makes alot of sense

Stay away from Walmart, bought sterio wire from them long ago and the shit was no good.

corey wrote:

Stay away from Walmart, bought sterio wire from them long ago and the shit was no good.

every car ive had i have put a new deck in it and i go to walmart and get the wiring harness there, i dont think theres anything wrong with it.

Why it cost you that much is because GM (maybe other companies, not sure) but GM wired the door dinger/light dinger thing in with the stereo harness. So when you put in an aftermarket deck you have to get the part that will still let the dinger work without the factory stereo. It is quite stupid.

To tell if you need that piece or not you can just put your keys in the ignition and leave the ignition off, open the door. If the sound comes from the speakers, you need the part, if not then you are good to go.

Places like Visions and what not say that there is a chance your airbags could be wired in with it, and without it the airbags may fail. So they always put that part in if it is needed when they do an install. Which makes no sense because that means if you blew the radio fuse, you would have no airbags...

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