’96 Explorer Wiring doesn’t match site
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Topic: ’96 Explorer Wiring doesn’t match site
Posted By: jimmieone
Subject: ’96 Explorer Wiring doesn’t match site
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 2:45 AM
Sorry guys im new here but i was surfing the net trying to find somebody who knew a little bit about '96 ford explorers and their wiring. I'm trying to hook up a cd player into my Explorer which still had the factory cassette player in it so i finally got that out and me being as stupid as i am cut the harnesses off of the wires instead of leaving them on and just getting the add-on harnesses. So now i'm trying to figure out which wires are which because every graph that i've found so far does not match the colors of the wires. If anyone knows anything about this matter i beg you to share it with me.
Thank you
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JP
Replies:
Posted By: switch_hitter
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 6:15 AM
i would recommend that you reattach the wiring harness and buy a kit
Posted By: jimmieone
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 11:49 AM
I would but i cut the wires too short off of the harness....I hate myself for doing this.... 
Posted By: racer427
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 11:56 AM
1995-96 Ford Explorer Stereo Information ------------- Alpine CDA-9833 HU
Diamond Audio M661 Components
MTX Thunder T6.6 Components:rear fill:
Cadence Q400 4 Channel Mains + rears
Thunder 801D Subs
MTX 1004 10's
Dual 4g wire to rear
4g grounds
Posted By: promodeepcycle
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 3:05 PM
you might have the fun exploder... in 96 they used a harness.. that is not made aftermarket... and you will have to rewire it around the fact. amp in the center console.. take it to a pro.. for some acurate.. advise.......
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dont be a pet monkey ..use your dmm
Posted By: jimmieone
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 3:45 PM
They put a factory amp in the 96 explorer? Where is it?
Posted By: hightek
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 3:49 PM
one thing you can check, but i don't know ford stereos are, on most factory stereos they have the color code keys for the wiring somewhere on the actual stereo. that is how it was for the one's i have put in. but then again that was only like 5.
Posted By: promodeepcycle
Date Posted: August 16, 2004 at 4:11 PM
center console if its new body style.. if its old body right rear quarter panel
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dont be a pet monkey ..use your dmm
Posted By: jimmieone
Date Posted: August 17, 2004 at 12:48 AM
I would like to thank: switch_hitter, racer427, promodeepcycle, and hightek for helping me with these seemingly neverending project. I had alot of problems at the begining but everything each one of you said gave me more and more hints....and then my very last problem was i didn't know that there are like 3 different fuses for the radio in my 96 explorer and it turns out one of them was blown, that's why whenever i hooked up my "memory" (constant) wire it wouldn't keep the settings in it after i turned it off and on again. Anyway It is finished and looks great! Thanks guys!
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