you realize the antenna wire is bigger and different that the rest or the power, ground and speaker wires. its much thicker and the end that plugs into your head unit is a little bigger than a pencil but its black and has a metal tip sticking out kinda like a cig lighter plug in but thinner/longer. the radio either has a hole this plug fits securely into or a black wire that has that plug on the end of it. sometimes the antenna cord falls down into the dash when you remove the old radio. didn't read all the way thru but it sounded like you thought the antenna was a wire you plug into the steering wheel control plug that kinda looks like headphones plug into (dont try it). it took me like 6hrs to put my 1st head unit in. (didnt know whatsoever what I was doing and was on shrooms, can't believe it worked