identifying these wires
 

i know that these two sets of wires are for the factory stereo - i had purchased a 93 850 GLT from my friend - someone had stolen his factory radio about a year ago and he never had it fixed - i purchased a sc-711 from some woman on craigslist for 20 bucks and when i was going to drop it in - i was met with these two wires - they are both 14 pins - and are not a rectangular connector - like one pin is offset on each connector - i am not sure if their is an amp that is missing somewhere and am just curious what is the easiest way to get either this factory stereo installed correctly or wiring a new aftermarket headunit - the car does have 8 total speakers installed - i do plan on replacing those and will probably just go with an aftermarket headunit -

i had read around on some forums about how the speakers are wired - with a aftermarket headunit - would it be possible for all 8 speakers to be powered from the headunit or would i need to do anything special to accomplish this -


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RE: identifying these wires
 

Hello Randomrobbi,

Bummer that someone stole the stereo because without the proper reset code the unit is useless to them. I hope that they never got it working the freakin bums :D

Is that the only connector available for the stereo? There are usually two for this model years unit. Or at least there were for my original factory deck. I bought the proper wire harness for my car and hooking up the deck was a ten minute procedure and all of the speakers worked with no problems.

I have a 1994 Volvo 850 and I replaced the factory deck with a Pioneer DEH-3900MP
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with an AUX. jack so that I could use an Acer Aspire 3100 laptop with Garmin nRoute
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for entertainment/navigation (cd -mp3 -dvd) so that I no longer have to carry compact discs. Always found that changing discs to be a pain so now I just set up a playlist the day or night before and when I get in the car I can just choose a list or let the passenger choose tunes.

Besides, I stopped by the store one early evening and did not think to roll up the windows and someone reached in and just grabbed the disc folder and was gone. Basstages [:@]