Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

Used in conjunction with the ReadyHarness service - Crutchfield built my wiring and shipped everything assembled. Worked like a charm

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Harness process was not complicated at all.

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Works great.

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Well worth getting for anyone that doesn't have any experience with wiring.

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Worked for Honda Element

Worked great for my 2005 Honda Element. I used the harness and mount to install a Boss BE7ACP-FT stereo (also from Crutchfield) that I had in a 2005 GMC Canyon that I plan to sell.

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This harness made installation of my new head unit in my Honda Element very easy.

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No brainer

Made install so smooth

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Worth it

Easy set up, liked the plug ins as it made for less work

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Perfect fit for my 2003 Honda Element. Retained the factory subwoofer as well.

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nice to have all the wires I needed

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Works great. It was nice to have the RCA plugs for the speakers. fewer wire joins. Covered all the functions I needed for my 08 Honda Element.

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DIY, Sure.

Made the installation easy simply plug and play.

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Super nice harness came with everything needed to get my radio installed

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Perfect

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Perfect match

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Honda Elelement Stereo Harness

Great receiver harness!!!! Used it for installation of the stereo of 2003 Honda Element. The harness made installation easy and painless. Excellent detail instructions from Crutchfield team.

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Made installation really easy on my 2006 Honda Element.

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Rear Cam wire not long enough for Honda Element

Overall it's does what it's supposed to, even though the cables take up a bit of space. My one complaint is for the reverse connection, it's too short. I ended up having to open up my ECU harness to get enough wire to allow me to reinstall my radio and then leave my reverse wire out of the bundle. And that barely gave me enough to get the harness reconnected. Hopefully, I don't have to try and remove it again.

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100% Worth It

100% worth it. Even if you are comfortable doing a lot of soldering and splicing, these harnesses are just such big time savers. They also eliminate any chance of one of your DIY connections failing, and/or you putting the wrong wires together.

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I used to do electronic assembly back in the '80s and am pretty judgmental about the quality of the connections, and Crutchfield always comes through. Add in the low price and I automatically buy their harnesses every time I buy or swap a stereo.

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Only way to go for Honda Element EX

Such a great help to have a harness with phono plugs for a car with built-in amp like the Honda Element EX. Plus the special Sub cable.

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Nice and Easy

OMG-so easy! I'll admit I am good at soldering, but I had the old radio out, the harnesses soldered and shrink wrapped and the new unit installed in under 2 hours. Just follow the Crutchfield sheet and it'll be a breeze.

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Makes install a bunch easier. Just wish there was vehicle specific instructions

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Must Have

Made installing my head unit a snap.

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Came with everything needed to install radio in my element with factory sub

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great product

Makes for an easier install

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Works great. Plug and play. Very little splicing.

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Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

I used this harness to connect a new Sony XAV-AX1000 head unit to a 2006 Honda Element's factory harness. Worked perfectly to connect to the factory connectors for the OEM's factory amplifier, the OEM's subwoofer, the OEM's antenna. Wiring was included to connect to the OEM's Aux Port, but the new head unit I purchased had its own aux port and did not use the wiring/connection to the OEM aux port. Everything worked as desired.

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No aux in adapter

No adapter for Aux in

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Works great. Perfect match.

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Connected easily and made the factory speakers sound better than the factory stereo before. This wire harness came with easy to follow instructions and even listed the wires that would not be used for my specific installation.

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This wiring harness was great. The directions were very clear. Personally I used wire nuts and tape to make the wire to wire connections rather than solder or crimping connectors. I like the option to change things if need be and I just happened to have lots of the right size nuts to do the job.

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Best harness available for Element users

Amazing! This is the right harness to keep the factory subwoofer working for your new radio. Initially I used a different plug in play harness and after installing I was disappointed at the sound quality. How could my new kenwood sound worst then the factory headunit. I did some searching and who else but Crutchfield had the answer I was looking for. For me the harness arrived the very next day. Easy to install and the sound was AMAZING. I have had several people comment that I must have upgraded the speakers too but nope still factory. I am very happy and very impressed with this harness for my honda element. It allowed me to keep the factory subwoofer working and AUX plug.

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Fit great

Easy to install. Just as described.

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parts sis not fit the vehicle requirements - 2005 Honda Element

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Once we saw this review, our Tech Support specialist, Nicole, reached out to this customer to help him further. We'll either help him get the harness installed, or help him return it for an exchange or refund.

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Works as intended. No problems at all.

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Very nice!

Works well and it was free!

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Color coordinated matching up perfectly with existing original wiring in my vehicle.

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Needed some modification to be compatible with my 2004 Honda Element

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PERFECT! this harness made the installation easy. For my Element, I just had to solder 5 wires together with the head unit harness and everything works as advertised. As for Crutchfield, I called them on a Friday night at 8pm for tech support and Craig was great - he even emailed me an additional installation instruction sheet. GREAT JOB Crutchfield!

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Easy connections

Easy connections very straightforward. Subwoofer to RCA to one instructions would be helpful.

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Everything fit and worked great!

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Handy

Made it very easy to replace factory unit with a JVC.

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works with my 2007 Honda Element. a good product.

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Nailed it

So easy to install with this.

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Super Easy install

I can remember installing stereos in my cars back in the 80's twisting wires and using electrical tape. This harness made it almost too easy to connect to my vehicle. All connectors fit well and were easy to identify where they went. Now I know all of my connections are secure and won't ever come apart on a hot day ;-)

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Piece of cake.

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Good harness except on certain radio's might need (Y) harness to install. Karl.

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Made the job very easy

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Ideal to integrate with the factory amplifier.

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Fit perfectly and my radio now works as it should.

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Great product for this old Honda! I was replacing an old Pioneer head unit with some funky satellite radio features (from 2003 if you can believe). anyway he had cut some wires and left me guessing! This harness hooked me up to the factory amp and sub, and voila! Loved the quick delivery, and that the Metra folks pre-srtipped the wires for me!

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Really?!? No steering wheel control wires?

I'm glad it was free. It only had a bare minimum of wires. The whole point of these things is so that I don't have to splice into my factory wiring and everything is plug and play. Have we forgotten that at Metra?

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Made the installation really easy!

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Works great! Would've liked some additional info in the installation instructions about where things connect but I was able to figure it out ok.

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Great product

Had to do some rewiring to make it work.

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No steering wheel control wires

It is a standard wiring harness. The issue is that it does not have the wires for the steering wheel controls. This is silly since the steering wheel control interface unit is made by Metra so they know the wires are needed. Why sell a harness that only has some of the wires you will need.

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Was a perfect fit for my Honda Element!

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Perfect match!

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Perfect fit

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Worth every penny

Made the connection of the factory harness and the new head unit a breeze. Wish the steering wheel was a plug and play.Great Harness

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Plug and Play

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Simple, straightforward. Works like a charm

The usual ease of application I've come to expect from Crutchfield adapters. Keeping it simple instead of making it complicated. That's why I go here first.

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Excellent product ! The wire harness matched exactly to the factory harness and the plugs were nice and tight. Technician was super helpful definitely buy from here again. A+ A+ A+

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Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

Instructions were about 99% complete. I had to call Crutchfield in order to figure out a step with the antenna. Great customer service though, VERY helpful! :)

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Makes it so simple for a novice to install right the first time in no time

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Great product, great customer service

At first I thought Crutchfield sent me the wrong harness until I realized the RCA jacks went in the back of my new stereo. After speaking with Vince on the phone, he walked me through the process of connecting the harness to my new stereo. It made installation a piece of cake,

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Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

Very nice kit that worked perfect in my wife's 2006 Element w/ a new JVC deck. A little tricky figuring out that the blue wire powered the factory amp, but once there it was great.

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Wires hidden ...that's a good thing...no issues

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This was great! Made installation a snap. The amount of time this saved me was well worth the small amount I paid to have this completed.

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This wiring harness was more than I expected. Very easy to setup. I recommend checking the metal tabs inside the plastic plugs as some were bent. I used tweezers to center them. Not quite plug and play as I did have to strip and connect some wires. Once I connected everything I had power but no sound. Just as advertised with Crutchfield I called and spoke to a guy named Austin (I think). Even with my little to no knowledge of correct audio terminology he knew exactly what my error was and told me what to change. And just like that I had power and sound. WOOT! Installed in 2004 Honda Element with 270 watt system.

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very good

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Nice Harness, but could bet better

Nice harness, would take care of most people's needs. Would be much better if it had wire stubs for all pins. Need to add two wires around plug for my installation. Harness does not account for steering wheel controls.

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This worked perfectly the first time. Directions were clear and the options were detailed.

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Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

This writing harness/adapter worked perfectly with my vehicle and the new Alpine head unit. Just some simple wire splicing and soldering and you are good to go. Without it, it would be difficult.

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Essential

Essential for a quick installation. Don't try to do it without it!

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I'm glad it was included for free; if I paid for it, I would have returned it. I achieved complete success using the stock bracket. The escutcheon did not fit the receiver; I used my 3D printer to create a piece that fit perfectly.

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Just what I needed

The product came earlier than expeced and made the installation of mu double din radio MUCH easier! Thanks Metra and Crutchfield!!!!

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Great Accessory

This product makes it easy to install my new deck. It had everything that I needed to just plug and play my deck and all the use the functions that I wanted installed.

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05 Honda Element success

Didn't have any problem with this harness.. Spent the extra time beforehand soldering and heat shrinking to the stereo harness.

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Fast install. Could be faster.

Installation was quick and easy. It would have been easier had I known which RCA jacks to use with my Honda Element but with some trial and error I got it working.

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Perfect harness

This wiring harness worked perfectly in my 2003 Honda Element. The instructions were very clear on how to hook it up.

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super easy

This harness made my install so easy I will never do without one in the future. The instructions were easy to read and straightforward.

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Helpful

Helped a lot!

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Metra 70-7863 Receiver Wiring Harness

Every thing fit, except the sub woofer, needed an adapter that was not with the kit, had to make one run to the store, and couldn't find a RCA Splitter, so i split and soldered the connection to make it split.

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Fully compatible

Worked perfectly as always

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Couldn't be easier!

Just needed a quick call to Crutchfield Tech support to verify a couple of things and I was done in no time. The small connectors sold by Crutchfield made this simple, fast & secure!

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life saver

After talking to a service tech, they understood my dilemma, recommended this harness, and it worked flawlessly!

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Wire harness

Works like I thought it would and should. Glad to find and purchase the product , and as soon as I received it, I installed it. Very easy and you have a happy , returning customer.. Thanks

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Super Easy. Does what it's supposed to do.

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Harness needs more connections

Worst harness adapter I have ever received from Crutchfield. Did not have all the wires that were needed on the main connector. Had to splice wires that were part of the same connector. Just did not include those connections. I ask when ordering. "Do I have to cut or splice anything", answer was no. WRONG. If it had just included 2 more wires it would have been complete. Plus there should have been a harness connection for the parking brake switch (not sure how possible this would have been).

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2005 Honda Element

Got all the connectors that I needed and more. Easy install. ...only thing is the "Subwoofer" cable. Don't know where that goes to - meant to call to find out.

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2003 Element EX 7spkr no nav

Worked great the second time as long as the head unit your getting has two sets of pre-amp outputs you'll be fine just remember to get a 1 Male/2 Female RCA Y-adapter for your factory amp. Pretty much you wont even use the speaker wires they provide on this harness just tape em up.

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2008 Honda Element Note

***Special Note*** If using to install an aftermarket stereo receiver in a 2008 Honda Element EX (7 speaker system, no navigation) you will need a Scosche SLC4 output converter from Crutchfield. I wish they would have let me know this when I placed the order for a new stereo and installation kit including this harness. I had the dash all tore apart and saw that the connections would work. Called Crutchfield tech support and they said I needed this part to complete the install. Drove to local Walmart and they had the exact same one for $18. Once i had the converter, everything worked great. Crutchfield tech support is great, my only complaint is that I wish I knew I needed this when I placed the order. Hopefully this review will help someone out and save them some time and a trip to Walmart ;)

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