Thanks snoman for the wiring diagram that's exacly what I needed !!! I bought an after market MP3 player deck monday and I've been looking and calling everywhere around here for a wire harness but no luck. I had already put the deck in monday thinking I would find a harness sometime soon. In the end I got my local Canadian Tire store to order one today but it will take up to 8 days to get it.
So tonight when I saw this post I went strait to my car and wired the deck temporarlly by soldering the tip of the wires and then inserting them and taping them one by one each in their spot. If someone had some kind of metal tips you could add to the wires and then insert them strait in the existing harness you could do without a harness. Also my deck is kinda cheap so there isnt any illumination wire for it.
For the ones that would like to know how to take out the factory deck I will try to explain how I did it. I first read a post on here that Spec SX gave guidance on how to do it, but I found my car to be different from that.
First I took the silver ring around the base of the shifter out. I dont know if that is necessary but I think it helps taking the rest out after. I think taking that silver ring without scrating or breaking anything was the harderst part. I used a flathead screwdriver. Then after that was out I just pulled on the big piece at the bottom there (what's around the shifter, handbrake and the cup holders). There are lots of clips but it should come out easilly, you have to pull the handbrake to get it out.
After that big piece is out, you will see 2 screws in the lips holding the bottom of the center console that surrounds the factory deck, temperature and etc... Take those 2 screws out with your phillips head screw driver. Now that whole piece is ready to come out, it uses the same clips as the other one, and comes out pretty easilly just by using your hands, you'll have to get your shifter in D to get the whole piece out, you might also want to also disconnect a few wires back there, to give you more room to work with. Now you should be able to get the factory deck out by unscrewing 4 philliphead screws. By the was those were **** hard to take out they were screwed in VERY VERY tight!
After that it's just a matter of installing the your new neck and putting everything back together. Although I had to fit my deck in from the front, so I put everything back together and then fitted the deck from the front. I dont even have it secured to anything, but it slides in very snug and it sits on top of the little cd tray and doesnt move a bit.
I do have a problem with the aftermarket deck fitting in because of that cd tray. Once you put the outer trim ring it's much bigger then then factory deck, so first of all it doesnt go in all the way, but I dont care about that because it looks nice that it's sticking out a bit. But what bugs me is the little door for the cd tray underneath that wont close now because the outer ring blocks it. I could close that door and have the ring over it and not being able to open it but I love that space to store my cd's, so I deceided to keep it there and have it sitting over the ring, it misses like half an inch to be able to close wich isnt that bad, at least I got my MP3 deck in there and looks better.
I left all the factory speakers in there, it now sounds better then before even without changing the speakers. I find the 6X9's in the back dont sound as good as the front speakers with tweaters, so if I were to change speakers it would be the ones in the back I would do first.
I hope this can clear up some of your concerns for any of you out there wanting to change their decks, sorry if I'm sometimes hard to understand, I'm not english my first language is french....
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