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Contour - Ford
Mystique - Mercury
Mount
New Radio
Cover
Page
Remove
& Install
Before
You Begin
Wire
New Radio
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Radio Wire & Color Code Information
This vehicle uses has a 2 pc wire harness. The silver
connector is the input to the vehicles separate amplifer.
The second connector contains all necessary power wires.
The Ford radio in your vehicle uses a separate Ford amplifier
that powers the speakers instead of the Ford radio powering
the speakers. This creates problems when installing a new
replacement radio into the vehicle. At the radio, the wire
harness inside the dash would normally have all necessary
speaker and power wires to install the new radio. However,
the speaker wires needed to install the new radio are plugged
into the Ford Premium Sound System amplifier which is
located away from the radio.
There are (3) options when installing a new radio you need to
consider before installing your new radio, one of which is not
recommended and requires extensive rewiring of every speaker
in the vehicle.
Option 1: you can choose to “integrate” into the Ford
amplifier. This is the simplest and easiest installation and for
the majority of new replacement radios this is the BEST
option. A Ford Integration Wire Harness is needed. This wire
harness is very similar to a standard Ford radio snap on wire
harness used to install radios in Ford vehicles with standard
radios but the harness will have a small box attached to it
which will allow you to splice the new radios speaker wires
directly to the wires of the integration harness. Inside this box
is electronics which will convert the new radios speaker wire
outputs into the necessary low voltage signal to run the Ford
amplifier. This means that the speakers in the vehicle are
being powered by the Ford amplifier, not the amplifier inside
the new radio. The information on this sheet is structured
to use OPTION 1 to integrate into the original Ford
amplifier. This has become the most accepted method of
installing a new replacement radio in this type of Ford
vehicle with the Premium Sound System.
Option 2: you can also choose to “bypass” the Ford amplifier
in the vehicle and choose to power the speakers in the
vehicle with the amplifier inside the new radio instead of the
Ford amplifier. This is a 2 step process. You still have to
wire the new radio at the dash, and you have to find the
amplifier in the vehicle and add a jumper cable (included with
the bypass wire harness) to the amplifier; unplugging the
inputs and outputs of the amplifier and connecting them
together with the jumper from the bypass wire harness. This
method is only used for radios with more than 40 watts per
channel output.
Option 3: or you can choose to completely run new speaker
wire directly from the new radio to each speaker. However,
this is NOT recommended.
If Your Vehicle Has A Ford Premium Sound System Radio
AS VIEWED FROM MATING END OF CONNECTOR
J K L M N O PI
A B C D
E F G H
DO NOT CUT THE WIRES OF THE BLACK CONNECTOR
The Install Doctor STRONGLY recommends using a
snap on “integration” wire harness which will safely
and easily allow you to connect a new radio to the
existing wires of the Ford radio system.
The “integration” wire harness will have all
necessary wires correctly labeled. This allows you to
follow the instructions on the previous page.
