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Ok I dug a little further and found what should have the cylindrical plug on it but it has been cut off. I'm not sure if this can be replaced or not so I'm going to have to call around. Thanks for all the help.
No, No changer. I spoke with mickey shorr and they said they don't sell the little plug I need. I'm going to try a few other stores or even a junkyard to try to find the male end to the antenna wire so that I can cut it off and rewire it into the contour.
IIRC, he said the amp plug was loose behind the unit, so I think the factory amp has already been bypassed. Whoever did it got lazy and didn't pull the amp, just left everything tucked up in there.Back to the din cable though. Now, I would suggest bypassing the factory amp, since your HU already has a built in amplifier...I'm telling you to bypass it... Which from your picture I can see some speaker wire, but I don't know if it's run for a bypass or not, which I'm thinking it is if your blu/wht wire isn't hooked up on the factory side, because that turns on the factory amp. What you should do is run the blu/wht from the deck, to the solid blue on the factory harness adapter, assuming you have ford harness adapter and didn't just hack off the factory one and try to hardwire it.
The square plug appears to be an expansion module, whether for sat. radio or external CD changer, or something similar. My Clarion has one (called Ce-Net) and my Pioneer does too (can't remember what they call it though). You plug it into the HU, and it adds a new completely controllable source to the unit.If that plug doesn't match anything on the back of the Alpine, then it may have been left in the car during a system change/upgrade. Is there a changer in the car?
Looking at this picture:
it appears the antenna wire pulled out of the plug. That silver 'c' shaped thing is the antenna plug itself. It should pull out of the black piece if you pull hard enough.
IIRC, he said the amp plug was loose behind the unit, so I think the factory amp has already been bypassed. Whoever did it got lazy and didn't pull the amp, just left everything tucked up in there.
My HU got the sledgehammer mod after I removed it. Very satisfying mod considering how much trouble the stock CD unit gave me. So if I sell the car and remove the system, I'll have to buy a cheapie CD player anyway. Plus, pulling the amp can free up mounting space for other goodies, such as remote mount satellite receivers, etc.2. Why would you pull the factory amp out.... Just unplug the factory radio, bypass the amp, and put the din cable back in the dash in case you decide to sell the car in the future, that way the factory audio system can still be used should you sell the vehicle and pull your aftermarket HU out...
My HU got the sledgehammer mod after I removed it. Very satisfying mod considering how much trouble the stock CD unit gave me. So if I sell the car and remove the system, I'll have to buy a cheapie CD player anyway. Plus, pulling the amp can free up mounting space for other goodies, such as remote mount satellite receivers, etc.
Weird. Mine is pretty tight on space behind the HU. Damn near couldn't get the HU to seat itself in the sleeve.That's true, but the dash behind the radio has tons of room already too
It was freakin' great! Plastic went flying everywhere! :laugh: The stock CD player started giving me probs while under warranty. Damn dealer gave me a half-assed repaired unit that never worked quite right and had half the lights burned out. I felt SOOOOOOO much better after whacking it repeatedly with a 15 lb. sledge!Nice use of the BFH! lol
Weird. Mine is pretty tight on space behind the HU. Damn near couldn't get the HU to seat itself in the sleeve.
It was freakin' great! Plastic went flying everywhere! :laugh: The stock CD player started giving me probs while under warranty. Damn dealer gave me a half-assed repaired unit that never worked quite right and had half the lights burned out. I felt SOOOOOOO much better after whacking it repeatedly with a 15 lb. sledge!
Sometimes a harness (from Alpine and the Ford adapter harness) already has bullet plugs, if so just use them. If not, Solder/shrink tube harness connections after joining them (slide shrink tube on first before connecting, otherwise no way to get it on there). My antenna wire was tricky, had to solder the tip wire and trim it off. Shield wire goes to barrel, I soldered that too.