i was looking into putting a new radio in my car it is a 760 turbo 1985 but it has a eq and a factory amp is outting one in a hard job and and what do i have to do need help bad...... thanks for any help .mark

I have a 1986 760 Turbo

I installed a Kenwood KRC-407 tape player with AM/FM, All I had to do was pull out the old radio, splice the harness that Crutchfield gave me, and put their car kit together and put the radio in the old slot. Fit perfectly, I have the EQ too, it had to be removed first (along with the fuse box cover thing), then reinstalled after the new radio was put in.

I removed the old amp afterward, it's not necessary b/c its no longer being used by trhe aftermarket radio but it saves about 7 lbs of weight.

Good luck

Pat

installdr.com rates the job as moderately difficult for a professional.

(huff huff), I found it relatively easy but tedious to install an alpine head unit, CD player/amfm radio.

go to www.installdr.com and get pretty good skinny...it worked for me. The color codes are pretty close.

You'll need to remove the amplifier under the steering column and use its wires to access the vehicle chassis harness for at least speaker wires; I think you have to use the stock radio harness wires to access the memory (constant battery power), switched power, and antenna control circuits.

Takes about two hours and a special plastic DIN plate/adaptor to fit the vertical face of the replacement radio in the slanted console....the installdr.com has a pretty good picture. You do need the adaptor, figure about $20 for the kit that any good audio store should have in stock...you'll only use one of the three or four adaptors in the kit.

I don't know, I didn't think the job was all that bad on mine. After removing the amp and head unit, (didn't have an EQ), the hardest part was following the wiring diagram to splice the harness together with the pre-existing speaker wires. Then I just had to get the head unit to fit into the plastic box that remained from the old radio. I didn't use a kit so it doesn't look "perfect," but it's good enough as far as I'm concerned. It did take me some time to complete, though. Probably the better part of a day, mostly due to the fact that it was outside in the dead of a New England winter.

Tim

Mark

The AMP has to go, cut the amp out, if you got a radio from a retail store you had the option of buying the wire harness for it, if not your going to have to match the wires up, go all the way back to where you find the last connector before it breaks into 2 or 3 cant remeber off hand thats where the harness would plug into and then to the stereo. otherwise you have to keep 1 of the connectors on there your going to need the wires comming out of it to hook your new radio up. make sure when you cut the amp out you cut the wires right at the amp your going to need 1 of those its a hot and the other is a ground i believe. if you get the harness your life will be much easyer.