To all owners with a 1 bin ford cd player (CSVT style).

[Phoenix]

So I bought one of these :


Everything is plug and play except one plug (which I think is the speakers plug) , the one on the car is more rectangular , and the one on the radio is more square...

Anyone encountered this , and how did you fix this? Anyone can point me where to grab this plug?

 

[hawkeye18]

Pics of the back would be supremely useful; "square" is not a very good descriptor...

 

[Phoenix]

Ill grab one :thankyou:

 

[Team Dave]

Pics would help, but there's really not much to it aside from knowing what wires go where. Here's what I would do:

Go buy a Metra harness for your SHO if you don't already have one.. Check out local junkyards for a CSVT that has the plug/pigtail in question, and cut it right out. Take it home, splice the matching wires together, and plug it in, and all should be well. Every other plug should be ok. A wire connection is nothing more than a connection, so just make sure it's all headed in the right direction, and you should be set.

 

[Devin]

Let me know how it works, as I have issues of my own that I will post in another thread.

 

[dodgebusta]

Let me know how it works, as I have issues of my own that I will post in another thread.

I can take a look, whiteman_01 has a few of these around, just a quick stupid question...Did you check way back behind the harness' to see if there are any secondary connectors? If I'm right there should be 2 full set's of connectors, one that is for amp'd and one unamp'd.

Like i said i'll look and get back to you. I work late tonight so it will probably be Saturday night before i can look.

 

[Phoenix]

Ok heres an update.

Forget everything about the square and rectangular connectors , they were the CD slave connectors which are not used on this unit. So everything plugs fine.

Except the sound comming out of it is super low , can barely ear it. It comes back to normal when I plug in the old slave CD into the new unit. EVEN if the old CD unit isnt powered (2nd plug) , I will look into it , seems like a ground problem - PS the old cassette does the same.

 

[Team Dave]

Ok heres an update.

Forget everything about the square and rectangular connectors , they were the CD slave connectors which are not used on this unit. So everything plugs fine.

Except the sound comming out of it is super low , can barely ear it. It comes back to normal when I plug in the old slave CD into the new unit. EVEN if the old CD unit isnt powered (2nd plug) , I will look into it , seems like a ground problem - PS the old cassette does the same.

That is indeed a ground problem. The factory wiring in the car is for a dual din setup, and you are running a single din setup. Grounding the wiring in question will "complete the loop" and should be your last hurtle.

I think so anyway. I'm currently fabbing up a full aftermarket sound system, and incorperating it into the factory deck. Pretty big PITA to do, since I don't want to cut any of my factory wiring. I've got every schematic for the stereo wiring you could ever imagine.