Ok so I have all of my wires connected and ready to be plugged in on my 06 RS. There is a long ground wire though and none on the new radio harness. Do I need the ground wire or is the car harness already grounded somehow? If so... should I just tape it off?

 

ground it to the bar behind the radio,There should be a screw you can take out and put the ground on

 

 

it's a pioneer... it's like a cheapy one... I just wanted something to be able to hear some tunes in.

 

yeah I was looking at that... I wasn't sure if the radio would hit it or not when it was in the car. I'll have to try that.

 

I just read on another thread that the antenna cable grounds the radio.. i'm confused here.

 

The best thing to do is to go ahead and ground it at a good point behind the stereo. There should be ample choices of where to ground it. Although the stereo MAY work without that ground, it would be safest to do it. I have grounded all of the Pioneers that I have ever installed and they worked well.

 

The Antenna grounds the radio on the Evo. No other ground should be needed. I just installed a Kenwood head unit last night in my new Evo. I taped off the black ground harness from the headunit harness, and it works perfectly.

 

Um... if you use the factory metal brakets to the metal body of the radio with the metal screws to the metal bracing in the dash.......... see the trend. It's grounded basiclly is what I am saying. The radio should have a ground, the harness might not because the mitsu harness doesnt have a ground in it.

 

In the dash, on either side of the radio, there are 2 screws sticking in towards where the radio goes. Both are covered with a rubber stop. Install a small ring terminal on the end of your ground wire. Remove the grommet/stop from one of the screws. Slip the terminal over the screw. Screw the grommet back on so that it is holding the terminal tight against the metal dash casing.

Wa-la the head unit is now grounded. This is how I grounded both my head-unit and my touchscreen monitor.

 

thanks all... I got it now though.

 

where did you get the pigtail for the stock harness?i cant find it anywhere