SinisterSHO
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Looking for a diagram or at least a list of what color wires are what for installing an aftermarket deck. Thanks!
Stereo wiring diagram
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SASHO91
Zoom Zoom
On the car side of things, or the radio side?
Jonny Cash
Good boy
Splicing speaker wire went out in the early 90's. I would get a aftermarket Ford harness.
Unless your trying to keep the factory JBL amps?
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SASHO91
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what's so about what I said?
Is he looking for the wiring for the car or for the aftermarket headunit?
about what I said?Is he looking for the wiring for the car or for the aftermarket headunit?
Jonny Cash
Good boy
Why would he ask which wires are which on a HU harness? Theyre all different, and they should be labeled anyway. Besides, if your doing it the right way, you dont even need it. Hence why most new HU's dont even come with them.
SASHO91
Zoom Zoom
Nowadays they are all (pretty much/name brand) the same... Yellow, Red, Black, For power, ignition, and ground. Then the others for speakers white, grey, purple, green (i think)... Maybe Steve didn't know which ones did what...
I do agree that the best way(easier) to connect a HU is to get the adaptor harness. It's what I always do, but I have thrown in a few HU's that just need to be wired up real fast.. spliced them all in (correctly spliced, mind you) and worked/works fine
I do agree that the best way(easier) to connect a HU is to get the adaptor harness. It's what I always do, but I have thrown in a few HU's that just need to be wired up real fast.. spliced them all in (correctly spliced, mind you) and worked/works fine
SinisterSHO
Rust free
Last time I had my current deck out, it looked like everything was already spliced in. I'll take a closer look at it tonight and see how things look. I'm installing a newer Pioneer to replace my older Pioneer, so I'm guessing it will be very similiar.Splicing speaker wire went out in the early 90's. I would get a aftermarket Ford harness.
Unless your trying to keep the factory JBL amps?
On the other hand, I guess it doesn't matter, everything is amped already anyways.
i wouldnt use any stock wiring if your going for a quality sound system with your own amps... i ran 14g power and ignition wire with a chasis ground and all rca's to the amps in the back, then ran 14g speaker wire to the comps. in the front and rear surrounds... it takes some time but the sound is unmatched by stock wiring setups and anything the stock amps could ever dream of producing.and beleive it or not this can be done fairly cheap it just requires alot of time.
TimboSHO
Intermediate
If they are both Pioneers, won't the plug be the same? Actually, I was wondering if most aftermarket HUs have the same plug on the rear? If anybody knows, that would help me out a ton.
JEM
SHO Member
What OE stereo does your car have?
'premium sound' or 'JBL' means you've got amps behind the back seat. If you want a minimum-work installation retaining the factory amps and speakers you should save yourself a ton of work and just buy an adapter kit e.g.
http://www.scosche.com/scosche/connectors/FDK1.asp
assuming your new head unit has front and rear preamp outputs. It has connectors that will mate with Ford's proprietary harness including the shielded plug for the low-level audio signals from deck to amp.
The Scosche harnesses use the standard aftermarket-deck color coding for the power, amp turn-on, etc. wires so all you need to do (assuming your head unit is < a couple years old) is splice the like-colored wires from the head unit's plug to the Scosche plug.
If you've got an old or cheap deck w/o preamp outputs you need something like the PIE or Soundgate interfaces (like the one I just threw on eBay last night from my old car) that'll drop the speaker-level outputs to preamp-level for the amps.
There's piles of other adapters, you can get a jumper plug that'll bypass the factory amp (amps if you have JBL) and let you run the speakers directly off the head unit's amp, etc.
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weewajr
New Member
Where can you find this jumper plug that will bypass the amps?
JEM
SHO Member
http://www.scosche.com/scosche/connectors/FD07.asp
You still need the head-unit plug kit to plug the head unit into the car harness, this jumpers the low-level wires from the head unit to the high-level speaker wires bypassing the amp(s).
If you buy the head unit from Crutchfield they throw the head unit and jumper harnesses in 'for free', so sometimes if you're buying new it's worth a little extra to buy from them.
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You can usually use the same harness with the same brand decks... ie pioneer and alpine have used the same harnesses for many years...
St Louis SHO
Rollin' coal
Step away from the crackpipe... send me a pic of what you have Steven, I'll tell ya what to do.
James
James
Venom SHO s7
New Member
If the pioneer you are replacing isn't too much older than the one you're about to put it, the harness at the back of the deck could be the same, it's worth checking before you go cutting up wires. But as new models come out, the plugs will change.
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