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Old 12-23-2011, 01:28 AM
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Hi. I just joined this board to read up on ideas for upgrading the cd player in my Ranger. I have an 05 XLT and i got the Pioneer Audio system with the sub in the center console put in when i had the truck built.

I am now trying to change out the Pioneer 6 disc cd changer for a Kenwood unit with ipod controls cuz i'm sick of cds laying all over my truck. My problem is that when i removed the factory unit, it actually has 2 plugs in the back. It has the standard 16 pin Ford plug but it also has a smaller 4 pin plug.

Now by browsing this forum, i found a wire diagram of my set up. There is a pic here in the first post:Audiophile amp/sub wiring

So it would appear that the extra 4 pin plug goes to the amp and sub in the center console. My question would be how do i attach the amp and sub to my new Kenwood unit?? The Kenwood unit just has it's own wire harness and RCA jacks.

I ordered from Crutchfield but i had to lie about my current set up because they didn't have the Ranger with Pioneer on file. They wouldn't send me any installation gear unless i lied. So i'm not even sure if the wire harness they sent is entirely accurate. The wire harness has 16 PINs but 2 are empty slots. I inspected the male end in my truck and it had only 1 empty slot. Is that normal?? Any help would be appreciated. I really have no knowledge about this stuff. I'm probably gonna let a friend of a friend do the actual installation but i'm not even sure he will be able to figure this out.
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Old 12-23-2011, 08:04 AM
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Hi. I just joined this board to read up on ideas for upgrading the cd player in my Ranger. I have an 05 XLT and i got the Pioneer Audio system with the sub in the center console put in when i had the truck built.

I am now trying to change out the Pioneer 6 disc cd changer for a Kenwood unit with ipod controls cuz i'm sick of cds laying all over my truck. My problem is that when i removed the factory unit, it actually has 2 plugs in the back. It has the standard 16 pin Ford plug but it also has a smaller 4 pin plug.

Now by browsing this forum, i found a wire diagram of my set up. There is a pic here in the first post:Audiophile amp/sub wiring

So it would appear that the extra 4 pin plug goes to the amp and sub in the center console. My question would be how do i attach the amp and sub to my new Kenwood unit?? The Kenwood unit just has it's own wire harness and RCA jacks.

I ordered from Crutchfield but i had to lie about my current set up because they didn't have the Ranger with Pioneer on file. They wouldn't send me any installation gear unless i lied. So i'm not even sure if the wire harness they sent is entirely accurate. The wire harness has 16 PINs but 2 are empty slots. I inspected the male end in my truck and it had only 1 empty slot. Is that normal?? Any help would be appreciated. I really have no knowledge about this stuff. I'm probably gonna let a friend of a friend do the actual installation but i'm not even sure he will be able to figure this out.
What is the model head you got from Crutchfield ? You are going to need to access the Pioneer stock amp and see how it is connected to the stock wiring harness. The wiring harness adaptor you got from Crutchfield is probably not going to be the right one, at least for your stock sub amp, but maybe we can find a work around.

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Not positive, but if you look at the subwoofer wiring, there are 4 connections, - white should be signal, blue should be remote turn-on, black is ground, red is power.

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Not positive, but if you look at the subwoofer wiring, there are 4 connections, - white should be signal, blue should be remote turn-on, black is ground, red is power.
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Old 12-23-2011, 11:04 AM
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Thanks for replying. On futher research, i am thinking i need a harness like this:http://www.amazon.com/Metra-Ranger-Integration-Turbowire-Harness/dp/B0007WTF2U
The white plug end looks like the same shape as the extra plug on my Pioneer unit.

The Kenwood model i got from crutchfield is here:http://www.crutchfield.com/p_113KDCX...ch=kenwood+595

And how would i access the amp/sub in the center console?? This whole project is getting to complicated for me. Why can't my life ever be simple??
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Old 12-23-2011, 04:48 PM
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Not sure. I've never seen one but it shouldn't be too hard if you get the correct harness adaptor. Should be able to connect the RCA plugs to the RCA sub outputs on the new Kenwood head.
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Old 12-23-2011, 09:55 PM
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Well i just ordered this from amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Metra-70-5702-Select-Lincoln-Vehicles/dp/B000LU8N26/ref=au_pf_ss_3?ie=UTF8&Model=Ranger%7C696&n=1077068&s=car&Make=Ford%7C54&Year=2005%7C2005&carId=001Hopefully it does the trick. I wish somebody with the same Pioneer set up, had a step by step conversion posted somewhere.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:04 PM
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UPDATE:

I thought i'd update this in case anybody else wants to do this same type of conversion. I used a similar wire harness to the one i posted above. The one with the RCA jacks hanging off of it. It did the trick. I have full use of my factory Sub now. I can even adjust the volume of the sub seperately from the main volume by using the Subwoofer controls on the Kenwood unit. On the factory stereo, the sub volume was just integrated into the regular volume and BASS controls so you couldn't really fine tune it.

So if anybody just wants to update their factory Audiophile system without using after market subs and amps, i can tell you that it can be done. I'd like to thank this forum for helping me out.
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