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Head Unit Connector: What's this one?

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imstock

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So, I got a head unit from a friend of mine and with it came an adapter he used on his previous Camaro. Well I pulled the OEM unit from the Mystique just now and noticed it had three plugs. One for the antenna, one for the speakers and then another one. In total it has the typical number of wires, but why two connectors? Obviously I will need an after market adapter (Walmart, $8) but will this have a pigtail for both the OEM plugs?

I don't believe I have the premium audio package, as I don't even have an OEM CD player, but I can't drop the glove box like in the contours in order to check for an additional amp. :nonono:

First picture shows the OEM connectors, second picture is the OEM head unit.

Thanks everyone!

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THANKS AGAIN!
 
Yes you have premium sound with the cassette player. I have one from my 95 tour. The back has a spot that possibly could connect to a seperate cd player like in a mustang. The square plug with the grey cord goes to the amp. The factory amp isn't very powerful but it takes speaker level inputs so you only need a premium sound adaptor plug if you were to connect your new radio speaker outputs to it.
 
Sooo... I'll need to take out my glovebox and either purchase the bypass from Crutchfield, or run wires myself to bypass it.

This wont work with an aftermarket head unit and a $8 Walmart adapter, will it?
 
CarpePoon said:
Read the how-to I created in the sticky at the top of the audio forums. http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showt...!!!!!-Read-here-first-before-asking-questions Your going to have to bypass the factory amp, so the square speaker adapter isn't needed.
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Crutchfield has an adapter which says it will use the pre-amp outputs and connect them to the square jack. I have front/rear outputs in RCA but I am not sure if these qualify as pre-amp outs... I used to know all this stuff.... :(
 
imstock said:
Crutchfield has an adapter which says it will use the pre-amp outputs and connect them to the square jack. I have front/rear outputs in RCA but I am not sure if these qualify as pre-amp outs... I used to know all this stuff.... :(
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Yes can do it that way but I would STRONGLY recommend against it. If you do it with the crutchfield adapter and your preouts. they your using the piece of crap ford amplifier to power your speakers rather than bypassing it and using your aftermarket head units amp. Even the cheapest aftermarket cd players use amplifiers 10x better than the ford amp as far as power output and sound quality. It takes 5 more minutes to do it the way I wrote up in the how-to and it will be well worth your time.
 
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