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2003 Mach 460 Replacement

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merc123

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I'm pulling my hair out. I have a Pioneer head unit and want to use all factory amps and speakers. I have an extra amp/sub connected to the amp rack with a Scosche RCA converter.

I bought three different Metra harnesses. The one that finally fits has three connectors and is the 70-5701 kit.

I matched color to color on the main, rectangle harness. The large square connector only had mute and power antenna so I color matched the mute to the Pioneer harness. The smaller square connector has amp ground, amp turn on, and RF speaker + and -. I connected amp connections but RF speaker connections don't go anywhere. There is already a RF speaker wire on the main harness.

I have sound and can move the fade from F to B and R to L and it moves properly. The bottom door speakers have no sound. If I splice both RF speakers wires to each other I get strong bass but lose fading and I get a muffled beep through the system when pushing buttons on the radio. If I disconnect the small square harness RF speaker wires and touch them with my fingers I get thumping through the sub and back speakers.

Is there a diagram that shows the pin outs for the car harness or anyone know the way to hook these up?
 

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Seems like the two you have tagged as RF may not be correct. Can't be two of them unless it is the tweeters but I can't remember if they were both tied together. Are you looking for a diagram of the stock wiring?
 

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I got it. I bought 3 different harnesses and got them mixed up. I was googling around and someone said use the 70-5519 kit by Metra. I noticed it had a white connector with RCA's. I was trying to fit a white one without RCAs. The other kit had a grey one with RCAs that was never going to fit. Finally found the white w/ RCAs and hooked all of those up and boom, fixed. The smaller, black connector runs your amps. I ran the turn ons to the switched power wire and negatives to ground.
 
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