Has anyone been able to use the OEM plugs ont he back of the Becker radio to fabricate an adapter for the wiring harness?

I don't want to cut the factory wiring harness. The Becker is FUBAR. I was thinking to rip apart the Becker and use the plugs to make my own adapter harness to plu the new radio into the original wiring of the car.

I found Crutchfield sells a harness kit for 81+ MB for $25. But, don't really want to blow $25 if I have to wait a week. Actually, I prefer to recycle and don't want to waste $25+shipping if I can do it myself.

Anyone tried this?

BTW, Crutchfield says to use the factory fader switch too.

where does crutchfield say to use the fader? have you seen the diagram for the becker wires? i think its on here somewhere.

Jason

Has anyone been able to use the OEM plugs ont he back of the Becker radio to fabricate an adapter for the wiring harness?

I don't want to cut the factory wiring harness. The Becker is FUBAR. I was thinking to rip apart the Becker and use the plugs to make my own adapter harness to plu the new radio into the original wiring of the car.

I found Crutchfield sells a harness kit for 81+ MB for $25. But, don't really want to blow $25 if I have to wait a week. Actually, I prefer to recycle and don't want to waste $25+shipping if I can do it myself.

Anyone tried this?

BTW, Crutchfield says to use the factory fader switch too.

Crutchfield is wrong.

Original radio is two channel, with this power split between front and rear via the fader.

ALL new radios are four channel, and if you split two of these channels with the OE fader you'll lose half your new radio's power.

Has anyone been able to use the OEM plugs ont he back of the Becker radio to fabricate an adapter for the wiring harness?

I don't want to cut the factory wiring harness. The Becker is FUBAR. I was thinking to rip apart the Becker and use the plugs to make my own adapter harness to plu the new radio into the original wiring of the car.

I found Crutchfield sells a harness kit for 81+ MB for $25. But, don't really want to blow $25 if I have to wait a week. Actually, I prefer to recycle and don't want to waste $25+shipping if I can do it myself.

Anyone tried this?

BTW, Crutchfield says to use the factory fader switch too.

Out of curiosity, why save the original harness? You have to re-wire anyway. I would cut the harness and maybe leave 2" of wire so you can always reconnect in the future. Then just wire up to the new harness. I can't see any reason to stay stock if the original unit has failed. The new head units outperform it by leagues.

Bypass the fader.

All IMHO. ;)

Yes, I took apart a dead Becker 612 for the plugs only and soldered them up in the manner you're thinking. Worked fine.

I don't bypass the faders when I still use headunit power, HU power is trash anyway.