interstate radio on tourer

[Tyco]

I currently have four speakers on my tourer. Two mounted where the widshield mounts and two mounted on crash bars. They are powered by a marine head unit in saddle bag with wired remote mounted to saddle bag.

I saw an interstate radio with handle bar controls for sale. I was wondering how easy it would be for me to install this radio and use my speakers. I know that I wouldn't have the harness to make this work but would it be possible to cut off harness and hard wire everything. Is there a wire diagram on radio housing? Any help and ideas would be appreciated.

[rhinor61]

The radio display in part of the Interstate dash/electronics.
to do this... from a donor interstate you will need the following.
Interstate fairing, gauges, speed sensor, wiring harness, hand controls, kick stand switch, some thermal switch, the bird house (radio controller), the radio, and AM/FM antenna and mount.
almost for got the Interstate battery cover.

sure you cut your harness up, but you will not have a way to connect with the gauge/radio display.

I know only because I am doing it myself to my tourer...

I wish i did the less work and went with a nice boat stereo unit make a lot more sense, they are water proof... and more compact that a car stereo.

Like the JBL PRV175 or the Infinity PRV250 AM/FM/MP3 USB Port Bluetooth Audio Streaming Waterproof Marine Stereo...

[jwinker]

rhino, so that Inifnity/JBL device plugs into your AUX port and provides Bluetooth to your phone/iPod device? Does it also provide navi and controls? I'm looking for a similar solution.

[gordonv]

There is a wire diagram for the IS radio controls. Shows what each wire will do.

The hard part is to get the same for the new radio that would have a wired input, so you can figure out what is needed to control.