what wiring harness for the radio is everyone using?? should I just buy the crutchfield harness or should I buy the one from metra. The metra harness says that if I use there harness I will be able to keep my door chimes and my RAN feature. By the way I have a base cobalt.

 

what is the number for the metra harness?

 

I'm not sure which harness you use since I spliced in to my factory wiring, but regardless, you are not going to lose your door chimes or anything else if you replace the factory radio. You don't need a $100 wiring harness to keep your factory radio plugged in. My factory radio has been out for a few months, and I still have the chime and everything else on my car.

 

70-2103 is the number for the metra one

 

VictoryisMine.. where did you run the accessory wire to?

 

I ran it to the fuse block, which is on the passenger side of the car. I connected it to the fuse that controls the sunroof.

 

I would personally get the Metra harness. We have to use those at Best Buy. Everything could work fine with the normal harness or the door chimes dont work along with some other things. I've been told that air bags have randomly deployed but not sure how true that is. Either way, RDS is a bitch for changing radios.

 

if it says that they will keep ur door chimes dont trust them at all becuz a lot of said that for my 2004 cavalier and i didnt buy the door chimes box when i put my aftermarket deck in and i was driving down the highway and my passengers air bag deployed and it was a **** load of mine to replace too had to get a new dash air bag and windshield it sucked over 1000 cnd and that was all at cost tooo for my self

 

Lol you DON T need to buy a harness for a base cobalt
The thing avout air bag is just to give the error code of the air bag and it WILL NOT **** anything
If you want to relocate your factory radio just buy 15ft of trailer wire and pick the dark green wire to the front of the car