Radio wiring please

Tiny
LWALKER_22
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  • 1999 FORD EXPLORER
When I purchase my vehicle someone had cut the stereo wires and took the factory plug off. Where can I find another one without buying the whole harness and which vehicles are compatible?
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 AT 2:50 PM

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Tiny
JACOBANDNICKOLAS
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I would recommend going to a salvage yard to get one. Also, stay with the same year make and model.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017 AT 5:42 PM
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CALLMECLAYDAD2
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I am trying to find the wiring diagram for the 1995 explorer eddie bauer edition sound system, I wamt to install a kenwood stereo
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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KEN L
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Hello,

That is the deluxe stereo which has many more wires, Here is the wiring diagrams for all stereos option for your car. Check out the diagrams (Below) Please let us know if you need anything else to get the problem fixed.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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KEVINBLAKE21
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Non of the factory ones they make will fit my wiring and my sound system
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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What are you trying to do?
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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JAMES LINKINS
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I am putting new radio in explorer need to put new wire harness on explorer. Need to know where old wire are coming from out of dash broad
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
Tiny
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You will have to look and see where it was cut to begin with. This is for a base radio. Check out the diagrams (Below). Please let us know if you need anything else to get the problem fixed.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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VBARNOS
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Colors of factory wiring
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:20 PM (Merged)
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HMAC300
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Normally you can buy adapters so it's just plug and play. There are 4 different radios for that year which one do you have? Base, jbl, premium w/cd or without
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
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WESTWOOD79
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I need wiring diagram for Kenwood CD player I am installing.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
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KEN L
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Hello,

Here is a wiring diagram (below) for the radio and the CD player so you can get the job done.

Please let us know if you need anything else to get the problem fixed.

Cheers, Ken
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
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WESTWOOD79
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Radio was stolen and hooking up new one. None of wiring diagrams seem to have same color wires.I thought I knew what I was doing.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
Tiny
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What are you trying to install? Are you putting in an original radio? Is it an aftermarket radio? Those come with wiring colors on a label. Are you trying to find the colors of the original wires?
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
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WESTWOOD79
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I am putting in a Kenwood CD player. There was a Kenwood in it that got stolen. The one I am replacing it with is a little older but pretty much the same. The punks that took it cut the wires real nice and neat like they knew what they were doing.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
Tiny
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I'm still not sure what the problem is. I assume the old radio had its harness wired in and that plugged into the radio, and it sounds like they took that plug. Do you have the plug and wires with the replacement radio? If so, does that mean you just need to know the colors of the factory wires so you can splice your harness to them? Is there a chart on the replacement radio that shows its wire colors? If there is not, you should be able to find that on a web site. Those colors are somewhat standardized throughout the aftermarket industry, but I never work on aftermarket radios so I don't exactly have those memorized.
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Monday, January 6th, 2020 AT 6:21 PM (Merged)
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FORREST GILL
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Ken L! Thank you so much for the wiring diagram * Fig 3. Premium Sound Radio Circuit w/ CD Player! Totally saved me on installing a double din apple carplay stereo in my 1996 Ford Explorer in which someone else had cut the factory wiring harness and added an amplifier at some point and just left a wiring mess to deal with. I kept getting the wrong wiring diagram until I saw what you had posted, and it matched my wire colors! Thanks! :)
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Thursday, March 24th, 2022 AT 4:00 PM
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KEN L
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Glad you could get it fixed, that kind of problem can be tough. Please use 2CarPros anytime we are here to help.
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022 AT 6:33 PM

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