1992 Explore & Sony CDX-L300 Help!!

[DrewFlash]

Well let me say hello and that I am new and glad I found this site hope that you guys can help me. I have a 1992 ford Explorer and just tried to hook up a Sony CDX-L300 well I got all the wires connected to the wiring harness just fine except the orange illumimation/dimmer wire because there was not a one for it on the back of the radio . After doing so I turned on the radio and it powered up fine but no sound came from any of the speakers. Now I am confused because the wire harness is a 6 wire harness with no wires for the speakers. So all 8 speaker wires from the back of the radio are just hanging there. So I guess thiss poses two questions. 1) what am I doing wrong that there is no sound? And 2) Should I or do I need to run my own speaker wires to the radio from the factory (I think they are factory havent checked) speakers to the radio it self? any help would be graetly appreciated. thank you in advance to any help I do recieve or for just taken your time to read my mumble jumble.

Click to read more...

 

[Slody4Futbol 10+ year member]

there should be another plug in the dash... a black one... with the 8 wires... check and see if someone cut the plug and if the 8 wires are just hanging behind the dash

 

[thefunkybunch 10+ year member]

most explorers have a factory amplifier that needs to be bypassed. just take 4 runs of speaker wire about 10 feet long. there is a plug coming from the factory amp in the passenger side B pillar, at the bottom. all 4 of your speaker wires will be found there. run speaker wire from there to the radio and you're good.

if it in an eddie bauer explorer, you need to put in the factory radio and turn it on FM to raise the power antenna. then unplug the radio without turning it off or the key off, and the power antenna should stay up. you lose the power antenna in EB explorers.

 

[Slody4Futbol 10+ year member]

most explorers have a factory amplifier that needs to be bypassed. just take 4 runs of speaker wire about 10 feet long. there is a plug coming from the factory amp in the passenger side B pillar, at the bottom. all 4 of your speaker wires will be found there. run speaker wire from there to the radio and you're good.
if it in an eddie bauer explorer, you need to put in the factory radio and turn it on FM to raise the power antenna. then unplug the radio without turning it off or the key off, and the power antenna should stay up. you lose the power antenna in EB explorers.

you do not lose power antenna in the EB explorers... you can use the met 70-5715 to properly bypass the amp in those EB explorers... the antenna and the harness is in the rear passenger side panel, take that off unplug the amp and plug it and the antenna into the harness and run it to the front... power antenna still works fine

 

[thefunkybunch 10+ year member]

well bestkits/scosche doesn't make some of the plugs metra does (a lot of ford harnesses that are really useful) and unfortunately we don't carry metra yet, but plan on making a switch soon. thanks for the info //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif