Stereo Harness for Kenworth???

Just cut the harness off your old stereo. All the wires are color coded. Use butt connectors and reused the same harness for free.

 

Like Poor Boy said just cut it off. Companies like Metra or American International don't make a harness for KW. You could probably order it from a KW dealer but it's totally not worth it. If you want to leave the harness in the truck just cut the old one off the radio and wire it to the new one and plug it in.

 

http://www.bigrigstereo.com/keworth_radio.html

 

Well unless your KW is different than any of ours it's not like any used by any automaker I've seen and I've done car stereos for 15yrs helping a friend at his stereo shop. The radio probably has a harness but if you trace it down farther you'll see there's another harness to the truck.

You can search if you wish, I've got both catalogs laying here and neither have what any of our KW's have.
http://www.metraonline.com/
http://www.aius.net/

Last 3 KW's I've ordered I ordered them without radios/speakers because all the OEM stuff is junk and WAY overpriced. However I always get them wired and it doesn't matter, with or without a radio they all have had the same 2 plugs.

 

I purchased a Blaupunkt radio from Crutchfield and was going to cut and splice wires. But to my surprise the factory wire harness plugged right in to the new unit. My mechanic only had to swap two wires around in the clip. He had a special tool that releases the wires out of the clip so he could change their position.

 

I just looked at the color code on the back of my stock radio and matched that to the new color code of the new radio and used butt connectors everything worked for me.

 

i have been reading on this forum for 2 yrs now i had to sign up cause i finally got an answer and u wonnt belive me but it the same on a freightliner and a kw its a vw not sure witch one but if bring your old radio in and tell them its for a vw they can narrow it down the rest of the way its a direct plug in u dont need to cut anything

 

What's funny is it takes longer to dial the phone looking for a harness, then it would be to just butt connect or even solider and heat shrink.