Steps To Install A CD Player Easily

By Sally Thompson

Those days only a cassette player was available in a car. But these days music has taken the predominant form in CD and DVD. If you still own a cassette player in any car you can easily switch over to a CD player and modernize your car yourself. This can be done at a low cost as an after market CD player can be installed. But how to install a CD player?

Here is the list of the things that you will need for completing the switch over; wire strippers, car stereo wiring connectors, 20 vinyl butt splices that are insulated awg 16-14, needle nose or combination pliers and 1 CD player dash install kit.

First locate for the wire running from the CD player, using a stripper strip the wire to half an inch, The same procedure is to be repeated for all the wires provided with wire connector, make sure only the insulation part is removed without damaging the core portion of the wire.

Insert an end of the orange wire coming out of the wiring connector of the car stereo into the vinyl insulated butt splicer. Now close this side of the splicer. This can be easily done using the nose pliers. Make sure that the butt splicer holds the wire firmly. Now insert the end of the orange wire that is coming out of the rear end of the CD player into the other end of the butt splicer and close this end with the use of the nose pliers. Be sure that there are no loose connections and the wire is held firmly by the butt splicer. Repeat this step for all the wires that can be seen in wire connecting the stereo. Make sure that each wire is matched very well with the similar colour and size of the player.

In the next step in the process we should remove the insulation from all the wires that comes from the wiring connector for car stereo. The insulation should be removed for about 1/8 to quarter inches and here also care should be taken so as to avoid the damage caused to the internal wiring.

Now one of vinyl butt splice which is insulated and the orange wire's end is inserted from the wiring connector. The connection is done securely using the pliers. The pliers are used to cover the side of vinyl insulated butt splice. Now in a similar way fix another vinyl insulated butt splice from one of the orange wires that comes out from the player. Then using the pliers the vinyl insulated butt splice is securely connected to the wire.

After that, he car stereo player along with its wiring connector are placed on the dashboard and are adjusted so that it completely rests within the space provided and should also be properly fit. Now the Car stereo wiring connector and the wire connector of the vehicle are to be properly linked this can be checked with the click sound produced by the connectors when they are linked.

With the help of these easy-to-do steps, remove your old fashioned cassette player and install an in-dash CD player. - 21392

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