i'm installing a alpine 9873 into my 2004 Base non bose 350z. i have two wires left over on the alpine reciever:

blue/white remote turn on wire
orange Illumination wire

Any idea what i'm supposed to do with these?


Instructions say the remote turn on wire should connect to the remote turn on lead if my amplifier or signal processor. Does the 2004 Base non Bose 350z come with an amp or signal processor?

instructions say the illumination wire should go to the vehicles instrument cluster illumination lead.

I don't have any more wires left in the dashboard to connect or splice these two wires to.

Thanks for any help

 

It sounds like you did not use a harness to plug into your factory harness. If you would have used the harness there is an orange wire on there for the illumination. Also the non bose does not need the factory turn on wire hooked up, but still needs the antenna turn on wire hooked up. Hope this makes sense without having the harness.

 

there was an aftermarket radio already in the car with a harness, i'm just re using it

is the illumination necessary?

 

most headunits stay lit up all the time, so the illumination wire is unneeded. and the remote wire is a signal wire to turn on an external amp, so unless you have one of those, that one is not needed as well.

 

You will need the blue/white turn on to power your antenna amp,,,if that doesnt happen,,,,you will have poo poo radio signal....trust me

 

thanks for the quick responces, i left both wires off, radio signal isnt too great but i usually listen to my ipod anyways, saved myself $40 by doing it myself thanks