antenna adapter blue wire? k-wire?

[charmingtrouble]

so I'm trying to install an aftermarket head unit into my 98 beetle. I have the dash kit, harness dapter and antenna adapter, and I get the gist of how to install it, but I just want to make sure I have this down right. I still need more info on the k-wire

1) remove old unit, unplug wires from it

2) take the harness adapter and match up the wires to the new head unit. [I understand that the harness adapter is so that I don't need to cut off the plugs that are in the car]

3] splice, or solder, or crimp or do whatever it takes to connect the matched wires, and then either cover it in electrical tape or heat shrink it

4] take the antenna adapter and plug the male end into the new head unit

5] now that the adapting stuff is connected, take the plugs frm the car and connect to the adapter.

6] place head unit back into the dash and trim with the dash trim stuff

so what I'm missing though is what do I do with the blue wire attached to the antenna adapter? and I know there is the problem with the k-wire [I read the technical bulletin pdf about it] but I don't understand how I'm supposed to disconnect it...on the adapter and the new unit harness there are blue wires that have labels on them



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I'd like your guys' help on this, and once its all figured out I want to do a how-to [with pictures] because I can't find a source on how to do this step by step anywhere, just bits and pieces of info on this forum and a couple others

just drove me nuts

[Toad]

do not use the blue wires in that harness.

on the harness that plugs into the back of the new radio, there will also be a blue wire. it will say "power antenna" or "amp turn on" in hte digram. connect it to that wire... and only connect those 2 blue wires together.

[charmingtrouble]

Originally Posted by Toad

do not use the blue wires in that harness.

on the harness that plugs into the back of the new radio, there will also be a blue wire. it will say "power antenna" or "amp turn on" in hte digram. connect it to that wire... and only connect those 2 blue wires together.

on the back of the new radio these are the two blue cables, one with a stripe [amp rem] and one without [ant rem]

does it matter which cable I connect the antenna adapter wire to?

[Toad]

both will work fine.

amp rem will always be on, and ant remote will turn on and off when you have it set on the tuner.

[charmingtrouble]

thanks a ton toad!

I'm going to work on this project and the how-to tomorrow after class

I will appreciate any other information about this install as well

[Toad]

all the info you'll need can be found here: Is this everything I'll need?

[Duffy]

Maybe this will help alittle...