Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work May 15, 2005, 06:19:35 PM I have a clarion cd player I took out of the car I sold and was putting it into my 1988 cougar with premium sound. I am using a harness to mate the radio to the factory harness, I figured out the ground problem and now get power, but still no sound. I know it has somthing to do with the factory amp. What do I do? HELP!! Thanks. Dan Quote Selected
Re: Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work Reply #1 – May 15, 2005, 08:30:17 PM look behind the glove box. there should be a harness taped up against itself somewhere in there. mine was between the clock and the clove box down low. plug into that. it bypasses the premium sound/amp and goes directly to the speakers. Quote Selected
Re: Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work Reply #2 – May 16, 2005, 11:16:49 PM I had nasty problems getting my Pioneer cd player to work in my '88 bird. I ended up wiring it up to that extra harness shame302 mentioned. Even tho your car has the premium sound it's probably got all the wiring for the basic, non-premium setup in addition to the premium wiring. Mine was taped up kinda behind the glovebox...check out this pic. It's blurry but you can kinda see it. When I put my cd player in at first I only used the red ground wire that the factory radio uses. I got sound but it was weak and distorted. It didn't work right until I ran the ground from the cd player's harness straight to the car. Maybe that's an amateur mistake but I figured the factory ground would be enough. Apparently I was wrong. Works great now, all 6 speakers are functional too. Quote Selected
Re: Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work Reply #3 – May 19, 2005, 12:46:55 AM ahh do it the good ol' ghetto way... Cut the wires.. wire them up directly Quote Selected
Re: Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work Reply #4 – May 24, 2005, 12:10:07 AM Why do all that ford already ran two sets of wires to the speakers. One set for the premium sound and one set for the non-prem sound. they should both be the same plug really just plug and play. Quote Selected
Re: Cant get my aftermarket cd player to work Reply #5 – May 24, 2005, 01:17:09 AM one setup runs to the factory amp, which requires a differenet wire layout all together Quote Selected
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