CD Player/Harness Match?

CTM194 · 01-29-2007, 04:42 PM

I have a 1993 318i 4dr and im pretty positive that the items im about to purchase will work but im looking for a second view from you guys.

I am going to get this Pioneer CD Player:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...552873,00.html

And this is the wiring harness i need for my bmw:
http://www.shop.com/op/~METRA_70_8590_-prod-35610003

Like i said, i am pretty sure those will work together but i wanted to run it past the bmw experts out there and see if any of you guys had to buy this/or a wiring harness for your bmw.

Let me know
Thanks

Phily · 01-29-2007, 04:53 PM

Looks good to me! You can get that harness at any local car audio shop....ie Best buy...ect.

PedroBMW · 01-29-2007, 07:27 PM

If your car has a factory amp you'll need to bypass that as well for your new deck to work. For this you will need a second harness, what I did on my old e36 before I had an amp was just cut up the wires myself and bypass the amp like that, but I would assume a harness exists for this application (i've seen them for other cars like t-birds, probes, etc.)

I don't know whether all e36s came with a seperate amp in the trunk or not, you can easily check for yourself though. Just pull away the carpet on the left side of your trunk, if you have one it should be under there mounted to the side. And don't worry about the fact that your getting rid either, its a big POS, especially if you wanna run any aftermarket speakers.

$500bimmer · 01-29-2007, 08:29 PM

i didnt bypass it. and i have alphasonic comps in the fron and i think it sounds ok......would be better with 2 - 4 channels but meh its only my daily.

999666 · 01-29-2007, 08:59 PM

Some after market wiring harnesses need you to run a remote turn on for your in car amp to turn on with aftermarket decks, some do not. Just keep this in mind if you have no sound right after you install your new head unit.
No need to not use the 200 watt amp that E36's came with (in the trunk).

PedroBMW · 01-30-2007, 11:59 AM

I didnt even realize that the BMW factory amp would even be able to recieve the high power input from the aftermarket headunit speaker outputs, but never really looked into it. I guess that u could always use i then and it would prob prevent u from blowing ur factory speakers as easy, since most aftermarket decks have more power anyway. If you ever uprgrade to a good aftermarket 4ch amp though you'll never want to go back to that factory cuhcuh after.

Yorkie · 01-30-2007, 06:23 PM

I just put in an aftermarket head unit last month.

I got the harness at Future Shop for $17. It plugs directly into the bmw harness. I then used bullet connectors to connect the wires to those coming from the deck harness. No sound at first so I hooked up the remote wire for the stock amp and it worked perfectly. Sounds much cleaner than the stock deck.

If you get stuck, just post away.

Nascar318is · 01-30-2007, 10:38 PM

Ditto, did the same on mine. $17 harness, the only PITA was the colors were off, so had to do some testing with a 9v batt...took about an hour to install..
Runing an after market deck with an amp and 2 subs, stock fronts.. 3 years and no problems..

As to your other post about 2 harnesses. You need your BMW one, once unhooked from stock deck it's the female end, so you need a new one to plug into that one(male) with the wires hanging loose, take those loose wires and connect them to your loose wires from your deck's harness.