Can't find speaker wires for CD player!

[SidewaysSHO]

Hi guys! Someone please help me with this problem, I've searched the web and this forum but I cannot find an answer to this.

I got a 90 Ford Taurus SHO 5-speed recently, I like the car very much, it's smooth, comfortable, and very powerful. The only problem I have is with the stereo. It came stock with a premium JBL audio system, with a tape deck/radio and a CD player under it. Unfortunately the CD player did not work, so I tried to replace it with an aftermarket one. I found all the correct wires to get the CD player to power up (power, ground, memory, illumination, remote) but I cannot find the wires to the speakers. I tried cutting the audio cable (gray color) that goes to the stock receiver and connecting it to the wires inside that cable but it sounds distorted because those wires are amplified by the stock amplifier already.

I hope you guys understand what I mean. Please help, I need music!

 

[LowSHO]

Well, the first thing you have to do is box up the old oem cd player and send it to me.

 

[jelloslug]

Did you just remove the CD player, or both units? You have you choice of bypassing the stock amps (and losing the subs) or you could try to run the preamp connections from the new head unit to old amps. This topic has been discussed in great detail recently, do a search and you should find plenty of info on hooking up an aftermarket headunit.

 

[Detenator]

Go to Best buy and ask the car installation guys to sell you a wiring harness for an SHO with JBL premeum audio. For some reason, they seem to keep all the good stuff behind the counter, or even in their installation garage, so you will have to specificly ask them for it. You will get the amp bypass wires, the power wires and the speaker wires. On top of that, you will get an instruction manual that tells you what the collors mean.
The rectangular connector is for power. The smaller, square one is for speaker out (that is wired from the head unit to the back of the car into the amps) and the amp bypass wire lets you get into the trunk, unplug the amp and bypass it so that signal flows straight through from your head unit into your speakers without going through the amp. If you want an aftermarket amp, this is where to put it in, by cutting the amp bypass wire in half.

 

[shoRunner]

you could just buy a SHO CD player off ebay...or replace them both with the aftermarket CD player.

 

[Blue-By-U]

At Best Buy the harness you need is called the Ford AMP Integrator Harness.

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