Ironrod

One of the problems with that year was the return leads for the front
speakers were sometimes reversed. Take a D cell battery and touch it to the
two wires that are supposed to be going to each of the front & rear
speakers, if wired correctly your should get a "scratching" noise coming
from the appropriate speaker. If you don't hear anything your returns are
probably swapped, just touch each return in sequence until you hear
something. You can re-wire the plug if necessary just by popping out the
leads and placing the in the correct order on the OEM side of the harness.


"Ree-Yees" <ree-yees@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1139517917.173157.43360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hey all! I've done a few google group searches and I am a bit confused
> as to my problem, but I think I am getting closer to the solution.
>
> I have a cd player, 88 mustang, and a wiring harness from walmart.
> When it is all hooked up the radio comes on just fine but no sound
> comes out of the speakers. (Also all speakers work with the factory
> head unit).
>
> I do not know if the mustang has the "premium sound" with the amp or
> not.
>
> There is a wire that is blue with a white stripe and the blue /w white
> stripe wire on my cd player said antenna so I skipped it. Looking at
> the walmart diagram here at work I see that the blue /w white wire is
> really "Remote Amp". So I assume that my problem is that since it's
> not hooked up the remote amp is not coming on and I am not getting any
> power?
>
> Which wire on the cd player would this need to be hooked up to? I
> assume that it is either the red (power) or the yellow (Remote).
>
> I also read alot of posts talking about having to bypass the internal
> amp if I have one. Surely I dont have to do this? I dont care if the
> speakers only go as loud as the internel amp can go :-)
>
> Thanks!
>