hi i am trying to hook up something to the vss wire. i saw the sticky posted on it ,but their is not a picture of the wire it says green with brown stripe but their are a couple of green with kinda brown stripe wires. anyone happen to have a pic of the actual wire i need to tap into ? thanks alote for the help.

 

well i hooked my z2's vss wire to the green with brown stripe in the area it says in the sticky posted about the z1 install ,but when im going 5 miles an hour the z2 says im goin 85 miles a hour so i guess i got the wrong one. anyone have any ideas ? thanks alote

 

I don't think you can tap in the vss that way. I believe you need the metra harness. That is what I used.

When I tapped in to the vss wire directly mine did the same as you listed above. The harness fixed everything.

 

thanks for the info.. everything else is working great . i hate to have to spend 130 bucks just for the vss wire .

 

Yes, you need a harness to access the vss wire as there is no vss wire, which is something the harness provides.

 

Why are you tring to do this? Maybe I missed something.

 

hi i am installing a pioneer z2 and it uses the vss wire to get the speed of the jeep to help with navigation. before i always just tap into the vss wire and it reads the speed . but mayb its not the easy with the jeep, i have everything else working perfect just would be great to use the vss wire without having to buy a 100 dollar adaptor. all that i need is a way to use the vss wire . thanks

 

so i guess the only way to get the vss signal is to buy the Metra XSVI-6522 harness and that will give me a vss wire from that ?

 

Not exactly. Metra isn't the only one that makes a breakout harness...but YES, you have to buy SOMETHING. It breaks out the VSS signal from the CANBUS. There isn't a "VSS" wire that can be directly tapped. Notice the metra part isn't just a harness, but has a little electrical box attached to it...

 

oh ok thats what i figured . what did the person use that did the sticky on the z1 install ? looks like they taped into the vss wire in the engine bay , which is what i did. but i guess i need the adaptor to get the vss signal like you said. because i do get a signal when i move but it isnt correct . thanks for the help