I just bought a 1999 s70 and am trying to pu a new stereo in. I have done this before but i can't get this one to work and i have a lot of extra wires. Does any one have pics or diagrams for the wiring?

 

If you have the volvo wiring harnes, then the colors match. Note, not every color is neccesarily going to be used. The only extra wires should be ones from the new radio.

 

I don't have a volvo wiring harness, and haven't for any of my other cars my deck has the wires for speakers which i have right but there are two black wires from the car a bunch of yelllow striped wires two green a couple reds

 

yeah, I would pickup a wiring harness at your local best buy or other such place. They are only $14 or so and will amke your job easier. Just amtch the wires from the harness to the new deck. Did you cut off teh two stock harness boxes? to get to the wires?

 

yes i cut them off(dumb mistake) i'll take the advise and get the harness thanks for the info

 

well, I wouldnt get the harness now. See the harness plugs into the boxes and then has the wires comming or of it which you connect to the wires form the new radio. But it will be pointless to get it now if the stock boxes have been cut off. Which wires do you have left over? and could you get pics?

 

I installed an MP3 player headunit this weekend. Very easy, very straight forward.

You need these 2 items (along with wire strippers and perhaps electrical tape if you're just splicing the wires directly together)

http://www.installer.com/item/displa...php?it=70-9220

http://www.installer.com/item/displa...php?it=98-9999

I also opted to use some male and female slip connectors that crimp onto the ends of the wires rather than splicing them together. I used a cheap MP3 player that my wife's old 740 sedan had and plan on upgrading to a better one in the future so rather than having to pull lots of wires apart, I figure I could just unplug the connectors, crimp on new connnectors to the new radio's wire harness and just slip those into the car adaptor harness's plugs.

My radio had what appeared to be 2 antenna connectors. One large, one small. The small one I didn't plug back in as there wasn't a connector on the aftermarket radio. All it had was the standard (larger plug) antenna connection.

BTW, I got both the wire plug adaptor and metra pocket for $20 out the door at my local radio shop. So shop around locally to save on shipping if nothing else.