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Breaks were replaced last year, and wore very quickly.
The factory stereo is set up in such a way that it is difficult to add an after-market stereo.
The rotors should be replaced.
Due to the front struts going out, every bump I hit makes an annoying squeaking noise.
The car is very fast.
The engine and transmission are in their original form, no work has been done other than the occasional oil change.
I have plans to bore the cylinders and have the engine rebuilt, not because it needs it, but because I race it, and this will help us both out.
Aftermarket parts for this car can be difficult to find, in my area the car is quite uncommon.
It is always fun to drive my car onto the track with all those Honda's. No one believes my car can do what it does, but I smoke them, then I'm the one laughing.
I love this car. It is very reliable, and sporty. I wouldn't trade it in on the world.
Hello to all who may read this. you said something about how it was difficult to replace the car stereo with a newer one with a 93 pontiac sunbird. well I have the same car, and I haven't gotten a cd player yet, but I need to find out what I need to do as far as the wiring goes. I got a wiring harness with so many wires, but I look at the factory wiring and there are only seven. someone PLEASE help me. PS my email is Bwackyguy02@aol.com thanx
~bryan.
Hey. I have been driving a 1993 Pontiac Sunbird. I read the problem with the cd player installation. In my car the cd player was installed underneath the dash where the old radio is at. The previous owner unhooked the old radio and hooked up the new cd player before they sold the car. I've had mine for almost a year and it has 125,00 miles on it, but my car also has the annoying squeaking sound when you hit bumps in the road.
In my Sunbird the install of the radio wasn't to hard to do, on my web page I will have a how to guide for setting up your 'new' stereo by splicing into the old wire harness and also I will have some tricks to finding what is what with your wires. www.geocities.com/freakstyle_12 is the site check it out often for guides and stuff it also has a forum and the site is dedicated to Sunbirds and everyone there will be willing to help you it's a great community. it will also have performance parts for Sunbirds cause I know they are hard to find and I found lots once I got to looking.
I took out the factory stereo years ago and installed a Kenwood in mine. You have to go through the pre-amp to the new stereo. A few wires on the harness, the extra ones you are confused about, you will eliminate. I didn't have to use all the wires on the harness. It took me a long time, until I figured it out. A process of elimination. The guys laughed at me because a girl was trying to install a stereo in it, now they ask me how I did it.
Kenwood stereos seem to fit in there better than any other streeo I've tried to install in mine. I later put a 250 watt amp in the trunk, and a Rockford Fosgate tube style woofer, 2 Kenwood 6 x 9 3 way speakers, and Kenwood front tweeters. It sounds GREAT! I did have to install bass blockers in the front tweeters, due to the high wattage, blowing them out.
First of all you DO NOT have to splice any wires. Follow the wires from the factory radio to a metal box behind the radio. You will also see the antenna wire running into here. Disconnect the box and get your self a wiring harness, ($6.99 at Wal-Mart). Match these wires up by color to the wires on your new stereo. On mine I put the CD Player where the old tape deck was down below the factory radio. Walmart also carries an faceplate that you can put down there for something like $20. Not that hard of a job to do in 1hour.
When I got an after market stereo for my Sunbird, I basically just mounted it under the dash in the old tape deck mount. It took me maybe 20 minutes to set up, but afterward, everything stayed in secure. Since my Sunbird is a stick shift, the controls for the stereo are easily within reach, without me having to move my hand too far away from the shifter!
I'm so glad I found this site. I've been reading the great advice about installing an after market stereo into a Pontiac Sun-bird, LE 1993. Can anyone offer me just a little more help? Best Buy told me to unplug all the wires from the silver box behind the original radio, then pull the factory wires down. I think I have all pulled except the black plug with several wires in it, located on the right hand side of the metal box. Do to lack of space, I can't seem to be able to unplug this last one. Also, I'm a little concerned that even if I do get it unplugged, that I still will not be able to locate the factory wiring harness that needs to plug into the GM wiring harness that get wired to the harness belonging to the new stereo. Am I supposed to remove the whole silver box? If so, how can I do this? Thanks to anyone who can help me out! avonmichele@yahoo.com.
Hey I am 15 and I have a Pontiac Sunbird LE looking to fix it up like an import. But its been so hard to find parts for it, if you could write back and help me with some web sites then I would appreciate it, I know the car is very fast, but I'm stil looking for things like a performance intakes and things like that. Please write back.
I have a 1993 Pontiac Sunbird and there is no bottom mount, what do I do? The stock radio is a goofy square one with a weird style hole, so whats up with that? e-mail me at Renegade42489@yahoo.com please!!
Hey, I am 18 and bought a 1994 sunbird Le for my first car and want to add performance parts, but I can't find a cold air intake anywhere! it only has 185.000 kilometers and has lots of power left. If anybody has found a cold air intake for a 3.1-V6 I would appreciate the response on the website.
Just wanted Everyone to know that it is easy to install a new CD player into a Sunbird. With the help of some advice on here and going to a few other websites, it is absolutely EASY! All you need to do once you have the dash unbolted and unscrewed is disconnect the amplifier. There is one 10mm nut that holds the whole thing in place. Once the nut is removed, the amp falls out of place. There are four connections on the amp, disconnect these. The blue and black connection on the passenger side are the ones that will be connected to the Wal-Mart purchased wiring harness ($7). The wiring harness is color coded for easy match, and all you have to do is match color to color on the wiring harness for the radio and the Scorche brand harness from Wal-Mart.
If ANYONE has a question about installation, give me a buzz at nossquirrel@yahoo.com.
Hi, I've also been trying to install a CD player into my Sunbird, however I'm running into a snag that nobody else seems to have ran into. When I took out the wiring harness from the silver box behind the old radio, the new wiring harness I bought for it (which was supposed to fit this model of car) didn't fit, and Walmart didn't have one that fit either?
What are you guys using to hold the aftermarket deck in place? I haven't seen a bracket sort of thing to hold a new stereo anywhere.
Hi. I own an older 1991 Sunbird LE, with the same radio. I would like to replace this one with a better functioning, XM-ready unit. This one doesn't seem to output stereo on any station unless you're like, right AT the station, also the sound warbles depending on the signal. Plus, I'd like to install one of those VR3 MP3/USB/CD decks in it's place. Any help? Would like to have it fit where the current radio is now as I have a set of switches installed on the bottom of the dash cover below the A/C controls.
Do you unplug all those plugs on that silver box and do mount the ground to the body some were.