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CONTOURCODY

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I am buying a 98 Mystique LS on Monday. I want to install the headunit that I had on my 96 Contour GL. Will the Contour wiring adapter that I recieved from Crutchfield work for the Mystique?
 
The Contour has the Premium system. I'm not sure about the Mystique.
If the adapter doesn't work, about how much do they cost and where can I get one?
 
CONTOURCODY said:
The Contour has the Premium system. I'm not sure about the Mystique.
If the adapter doesn't work, about how much do they cost and where can I get one?
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$19.99 for a ford eliminator harness from Best Buy, May be cheaper depending on what stores you have around you.... I'm assuming your using a FD02B harness... which is the standard non-premium harness... should have 2 plugs.. one gray and one black, flat plugs.... You should be able to reuse the gray plug for power and such... you'll have to use one plug out of the eliminator harness... which will require cutting it... there should be a harness in there that has two plugs on each end.... you'll have to cut them apart, and then run a like 4 pairs of speaker wire from that harness up to your dash and hook them up right to the deck's speaker output wires. Factory amp should be behind the drivers glove box.... if you need a picture of how to make this harness an what it looks like, just drop another line on the forum here...

Hope this helps you...
 
Refresh my memory, how exactly do you check if the factory system is premium or not.
All I remember is that the Contour definitely has the premium system, but I don't remember how I found that out.
 
SHould be able to just look behind the glove box and see if there is an amp behind it or not...
 
Thanks I'll check that out tomorrow or Saturday.

Even if the Mystique does not have the stock amp, could I not still use the wiring adaptor that was for my Contour(does have stock amp). Wouldn't I be able to some how rewire the wiring adaptor to go staight to the speaker wires?

It's been a few years since I last played around with a sound system so please excuse me while I try to re-learn this stuff.
 
CONTOURCODY said:
Thanks I'll check that out tomorrow or Saturday.

Even if the Mystique does not have the stock amp, could I not still use the wiring adaptor that was for my Contour(does have stock amp). Wouldn't I be able to some how rewire the wiring adaptor to go staight to the speaker wires?

It's been a few years since I last played around with a sound system so please excuse me while I try to re-learn this stuff.
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Understandable..... You'd have to hard wire the speaker half.... the gray power plug should work for both....(premium and non-premium) as for the speaker part... you'd have to take the wires from the deck straight to the factory speaker harness... which I would NOT suggest hacking apart or tapping into.... just spend the little bit of cash and buy a wiring harness.... or just ask around.. I know I have a bunch of the black plugs laying around for the speaker portion in my tool box.... Please don't go and hack/tap the speaker portion.... for 1... you have to have the right wire colors so your speakers are in phase and 2 it looks like crap in the end when you do tap in... but that's just one guys opinion... I don't know if you have a circuit city, American TV, or Best Buy close by... but I'd swing by your local car audio stores and price some non-premium harnesses out if you end up having a non-premium system.... or just ask the installers around those places...there's bound to be someone with just a standard non-premium ford plug laying around that would probably just give it to you... or sell it cheap...
 
On Saturday I installed the head unit with zero hassle. Thanks to the standard wiring adapter I bought at Walmart for $6. CSVT_2004, thanks for the advice on just buying another adapter instead of splicing into the factory wiring. That definitely saved me some time.
 
CONTOURCODY said:
On Saturday I installed the head unit with zero hassle. Thanks to the standard wiring adapter I bought at Walmart for $6. CSVT_2004, thanks for the advice on just buying another adapter instead of splicing into the factory wiring. That definitely saved me some time.
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No problem, any time. I'm guessing it didn't have an amp then?
 
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