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1997 Dodge Dakota Car Stereo Wiring Diagram


Question: Where can I find a 1997 Dodge Dakota radio wiring diagram? What are the 1997 Dodge Dakota radio wiring harness colors?

If you’re looking to change the radio in your 1997 Dodge Dakota or troubleshoot why your car radio stopped working, we’re here to help!

Our comprehensive 1997 Dodge Dakota radio wiring diagram shows you all the radio wire harness colors, car speaker wiring colors and car speaker sizes. Use our 1997 Dodge Dakota stereo wiring guide to help you with your car radio and installation needs.

1997 Dodge Dakota Radio Wiring Diagram

This 1997 Dodge Dakota radio wiring chart shows you all the 1997 Dodge Dakota radio wire colors and their functions. Utilize this guide to help you with a car radio install or help with a car radio troubleshoot. If you don’t see the car radio wiring information you’re looking for, please feel free to ask your question at the bottom of this page.

Application Radio Wire Color
Car Radio Battery Wire (Constant Power 12v+) Red/Blue
Car Radio Accessory Wire (Switched Power 12v+) Red/White
Car Radio Ground Wire Chassis
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Car Radio Illumination Wire Black/Yellow
Car Stereo Dimmer Wire Orange
Car Radio Antenna Trigger Wire N/A
Car Radio Amp Trigger Wire N/A
Car Radio Amp Mute Wire N/A
Car Radio Amplifier Location N/A
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1997 Dodge Dakota Speaker Wiring Guide

This 1997 Dodge Dakota speaker wiring chart shows you every speaker wire color and the speaker wire location. Use this 1997 Dodge Dakota speaker wiring guide to help you with a speaker replacement or speaker upgrade. If the car speaker wiring information you’re searching for is not listed, please don’t hesitate to ask for it at the bottom of this page.

Application Speaker Wire Color
Front Center Speaker Positive Wire (+) N/A
Front Center Speaker Negative Wire (-) N/A
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Front Left Tweeter Positive Wire (+) N/A
Front Left Tweeter Negative Wire (-) N/A
Front Right Tweeter Positive Wire (+) N/A
Front Right Tweeter Negative Wire (-) N/A
arrow Use a Speaker Wire Harness for easy Speaker Installation!
Front Left Speaker Positive Wire (+) Dark Green
Front Left Speaker Negative Wire (-) Brown/Red
Front Right Speaker Positive Wire (+) Brown/Yellow
Front Right Speaker Negative Wire (-) Brown/Light Blue
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Rear Left Tweeter Positive Wire (+) N/A
Rear Left Tweeter Negative Wire (-) N/A
Rear Right Tweeter Positive Wire (+) N/A
Rear Right Tweeter Negative Wire (-) N/A
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Rear Left Speaker Positive Wire (+) White
Rear Left Speaker Negative Wire (-) Dark Blue/Red
Rear Right Speaker Positive Wire (+) Brown/White
Rear Right Speaker Negative Wire (-) Brown/Orange
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Subwoofer Positive Wire (+) N/A
Subwoofer Negative Wire (-) N/A

1997 Dodge Dakota Speaker Sizes and Location

This 1997 Dodge Dakota speaker size chart shows your speaker measurements and speaker locations. Use this chart to see what speaker fits in your 1997 Dodge Dakota.

Application Speaker Size and Location
Front Center Speaker Size N/A
Front Center Speaker Depth N/A
Front Center Speaker Location N/A
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Front Tweeter Size N/A
Front Tweeter Depth N/A
Front Tweeter Location N/A
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Front Speaker Size 6.5″ Speakers
Front Speaker Depth 3.8″ Depth
Front Speaker Location Doors
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Rear Tweeter Size N/A
Rear Tweeter Depth N/A
Rear Tweeter Location N/A
arrow Use a Speaker Wire Harness for easy Speaker Installation!
Rear Speaker Size 6.5″ Speakers
Rear Speaker Depth 3.8″ Depth
Rear Speaker Location N/A
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Car Subwoofer Speaker Size N/A
Car Subwoofer Speaker Depth N/A
Car Subwoofer Speaker Location N/A

Questions and Answers

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20 thoughts on “1997 Dodge Dakota Car Stereo Wiring Diagram”

  1. Terry, as much as we would like to help you, most of the car radio wiring information listed on our website is provided by our visitors. We currently do not have any information on the 1996 Dodge Dakota amplifier turn on wire but hopefully someone from our knowledgeable Modified Life community would be able to chime in and help you.

  2. i have a 1996 dodge dakota sport pick up truck the door says 1995 but vin says 1996 anyway it has factory amp. the speakers dont say infinity i need to know the amp turn on wire or how to make radio work..no sound just put in alpine cd player. anyone? thanks.

  3. Can somebody please confirm that stock speakers for 1997 Dakota Sport iare 2ohms ?

    Are all speakers (2 in front door, 2 in back) 6.5 inch round ?

    Any recommendations for replacement model (all are blown) or where to find them ?
    Nothing fancy. Factory sound is fine

    Thanks

  4. Check it out the blue w/ orange stripe wire is the power wire for the factory amp, you hook it to the blue RMS wire on your head unit and your wiring diagram above is way off. If you call up your local dealer they might hook you up with locations and colors over the phone…. Oh yeah and you owe me some new fuses ):

  5. I was going to put a pioneer deck into my brothers 97 dakota before he moves away but the wire coloring was different than whats shown at the top

    Pink
    Black/Yellow
    Orange
    Black
    Red/White
    Blue/Red
    Brown/Red
    Blue/White
    Blue/Orange
    Violet
    Green
    Green/Brown
    Brown/Yellow
    Brown/Light Blue

    I know the pink is the constant and the red/white is the accessory and the black is the chassis ground
    and im pretty sure the black/yellow and orange were just for the tape player that was in it before and arent used

    but everything i try i cant manage to get any sound i tried what Tyler had suggested but that didnt help at all

    i think i have the speaker wires messed up somewhere
    if anyone can help me out here it would be greatly appreciated

  6. Thom, glad you found the amplifier turn on wire color for your 1997 Dodge Dakota. Thanks for the car stereo wiring information contribution!

  7. After doing a little more online research, I was able to answer my own question.

    On the new stereo, the Blue wire is for the “Power Antenna” – the Blue w/ White Stripe wire is for the “Remote Out”. I had hooked the Blue wire to the Blue wire on my Dakota’s wiring harness, but I had done nothing with the Blue w/ White Stripe wire (I didn’t realize that there was a separate hidden stock power amp…)

    The “Power Antenna” wire must power the AM/FM portion of the amp; the “Remote Out” wire must power the DVD/CD/iPod portion of the amp. When I connected both of these wires together, then connected them to the blue wire on the Dakota’s wiring harness, everything worked fine!

  8. Thom, it sounds like the factory amplifier is being turned on by the antenna trigger wire because the radio plays fine (this is when the antenna trigger wire turns on) but a CD or DVD won’t play (this is when the antenna trigger wire is off). Which wire on the factory radio harness do you have your aftermarket radio amp trigger wire hooked up to?

  9. I’m having the same problem that Rob posted on May 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm (but with a different stereo). I have a 1997 Dakota; I’m installing a JVC KD-AVX40 DVD/CD Receiver in it. The AM and FM play fine through all speakers, but I have no sound from CDs, DVDs, or from my iPod (I’m using a KS-DP100 adapter for the iPod).

    I called “Tech Support” at JVC (and talked to someone that’s probably never installed a car stereo in their life…). He said that he saw no record of this problem ever coming up before, so the stereo must be bad; I need to send it to JVC for repair (4-6 weeks in their repair center…). I personally believe that it’s just a wiring problem, not a defective stereo.

    Could someone explain Tyler’s post of September 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pm a little more fully to me? It sounds like that fix will probably work for me, but I want to be 100% sure that I’m hooking the correct wires together.

    Thanks in advance.

  10. Rebecca Rawlings

    I have a 2002 dodge ram 1500 with the infinity system in it. The amp has gone bad and we are trying to piggy back the wires that were plugged into the amp. Does anyone have the wiring diagram for this process? We have an aftermarket HU to replace the stock HU.

  11. I have a 97 Dakota with the Infinity system in it also. I just put in an aftermarket Head Unit. The stock amp accepts speaker level inputs not preamp inputs. So your setup SHOULD be working fine. Personally I want to bypass the stock amp anyway, because I’m replacing the speakers with 4ohm ones (stock are 2ohm so I hear) and just use the Head Unit internal amp.

    This pinout basicly gives the channel inputs for the stock amp. I need a pinout for the outputs to the speakers from the amp. Maybe that’s something I can submit when I if I end up tracing it all out myself?

  12. Chas, whether or not your cd player will read burned CD’s is really dependent on the CD player itself. Usually the reason why a radio won’t read a burned CD is because the blank CD is poor quality. Our advice is to use quality name brand blank CD’s when burning music CD’s. Hope this helps. Good luck.

  13. My CD player will play market CDs, but not my burnt CDs. I have the option of slowing down the burning speed when burning my CDs. will that help?? Is there any way I can listen to burnt CDs as well as market CDs??

  14. i just had this happen to me today… u have to take the both the blue wires and both of the blue striped wires and put them together…u prolly have a stock amp in your truck that is not allowin the cd to play…once i put them together the cd would play with sound.

  15. I have a 1997 dakota and it has the factory infinity stereo in it. Now I am trying to hook up a sony xplod aftermarket cd player. I hooked up all the wiring and put in a cd, the cd player loads the cd and plays it, but there is no sound. My brother had an aftermarket Alpine cd player and that one worked and played sound. So I figured that is might be the wiring harness I hooked up so my brother used the wiring harness in his Jeep wrangler and it worked. Then my brother got his sony aftermarket cd player and that did the same thing as my xplod. Finally I tried my Pioneer aftermarket cd player and that did the same exact thing as the sony cd players did. What could be causing this to happen?

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