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Receiver Wire Harness

For select 1993-00 vehicles with factory amplifier

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This vehicle-specific wiring harness makes connections between your new car stereo and your car's electrical system.

First, attach the color-coded wires on your Crutchfield harness to the wires from your new stereo. If you don't know how to use a soldering iron, we recommend that you purchase some wire connectors that you'll use to attach the Crutchfield harness to your factory harness.

Now, once this harness is connected to your new stereo, you'll be able to plug right into your car's factory radio connector. This harness makes installing your new stereo easier, and allows you to put the factory radio back when you sell your vehicle or return it at the end of the lease. A detailed instruction sheet comes with the harness. Warranty: 60 days.

Please read this important note: This harness may not contain provisions for every wire needed to complete your installation, and it will not accommodate special navigation, video, or factory steering wheel control connections. You will need a special adapter if you want your factory steering wheel audio controls to work with your new stereo.

Connections:

Important Note: This harness bypasses your factory amplifier. In order to install it and make the necessary connections, you will need to run the harness wires from your receiver location to your factory amp location, which may be in the rear of your vehicle.

  • 12V constant power
  • 12V switched power
  • chassis ground
  • power antenna turn-on
  • dimmer
  • left front speaker +/-
  • right front speaker +/-
  • left rear speaker +/-
  • right rear speaker +/-
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Note: Most vehicles will require additional installation parts — please identify your vehicle if you haven’t done so, then check here for a list of parts. You can also call an Advisor for more information.

 

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  • 6" Power harness
  • 18' Amplifier bypass harness
  • Instruction sheet

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Features

Crutchfield Wiring Harness: Crutchfield wiring harnesses prevent you from having to cut your vehicle's factory radio plug when replacing your factory radio with an aftermarket head unit. Simply solder or crimp the Crutchfield wiring harness to your aftermarket head unit's harness (solder & crimps not included), plug the aftermarket head unit's plug into the rear chassis of the aftermarket head unit, and plug the Crutchfield wiring harness into your vehicle's factory radio plug.

Note: Installation tools, hardware, & accessories are not included & sold separately. Please see the Accessories tab for recommendations & availability.

Wiring Notes: If the Crutchfield wiring harness is not equipped with a ground wire, you will need to ground the aftermarket head unit's ground wire to the metal chassis of your vehicle. Some vehicle's may require you to bypass the vehicle's factory amplifier (in another location from factory radio) or hardwire certain connections. If your vehicle is equipped with factory steering wheel controls, an additional adapter is required & sold separately.

Wire Code Chart:

(Power Harness)

Wire Color Function
Yellow +12 Volt Constant
Orange/Black Not Used
Red +12 Volt Accessory
Orange/White Dimmer
Orange Cell Mute
Black Ground
Blue Power Antenna
Blue/White Not Used

(Amplifier Bypass Harness)

Wire Color Function
Green Left Rear Speaker +
Green/Black Left Rear Speaker -
Violet Right Rear Speaker +
Violet/Black Right Rear Speaker -
Gray Right Front Speaker +
Gray/Black Right Front Speaker -
White Left Front Speaker +
White/Black Left Front Speaker -
Blue Power Antenna

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5 out of 5

Harness

Written By Cop793, Louisville ky on Monday, June 17, 2013
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Perfect fit. I also needed the harness to wire the factory amp. Crutchfield included this along with instructions. Perfect
Pros:
Perfect
Cons:
None
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5 out of 5

Factory amp bypass harness

Written By Cody, Villa Park, IL on Friday, April 05, 2013
Installed in a 1999 Ford Mustang
Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?)
 
My application was a 1999 Ford Mustang with the standard audio system so I ended up cutting off all but a foot of the speaker harness. Otherwise it was very straight forward. I de-pined a couple of the wires that were not used like the blue remote turn-on lead on the speaker harness and one of the illumination wires on the main harness.
Pros:
Fits, decent quality wire
Cons:
Extra wire length - waste if you're not using it for your application
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2 out of 5

Harness

Written By landrews, Stafford Va on Friday, March 22, 2013
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I am sure this is a fine wiring harness, but it did not fit my radio/truck, it was returned, the salespeople should have known, I had to get the proper wiring harness somehwere else.
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5 out of 5

makes it easy

Written By Jeff A, Wyoming on Sunday, March 17, 2013
Installed in a 1997 Lincoln Town Car
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This harness is a must for bypassing the factory amp. I ran this harness down the right side of the car in the factory wire chase and then up under the dash to the radio location. I even had to cut off about 2.5 feet of wire. I used it in a 97 Town Car and I can't think of any application that would require a longer harness. Once I decided to remove the rear seat the acutal running of the harness took about 20 minutes.
Pros:
plenty of wire
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2 out of 5

Power and speaker harness.

Written By MikeM, Huntsville Texas on Sunday, December 30, 2012
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The only part the worked snapped in right was the power connection. The only reason it gets a two instead of a one or less. The speaker/wire harness did not fit the connections for the amp bypass. So the only good that came out of it was I was able to use the wire to run it directly from the speakers to the radio. Lucky it was free wire.
Pros:
Only the power wire harnees worked.
Cons:
The speaker harness did not work, connections was useless. So had to cut the wires and run them directly. Which resulted in way more crawling around the belly of the vehicle then intended or expected with Crutchfield products I have used before.
1 out of 2 people found this helpful
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4 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Anonymous, yulee, fl on Monday, October 29, 2012
Installed in a 1997 Lincoln Town Car
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just what i wanted
Pros:
easy to install
Cons:
no antenna extension
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4 out of 5

Perfect

Written By Appleman, Plainsboro, NJ on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Installed in a 1995 Ford Explorer
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Perfect for my application. Only gripe is that the wires are not sheathed. Whenever you run wire through a vehicle it shouldn't be just wires, they should be protected. Just enough wire. Had about 2 feet extra so I just coiled it behind the dash. Excellent instructions that anyone could follow. I found the remote lead to be slightly confusing, so I just hooked it up to the amp in the back because I didn't have a remote antenna.
Pros:
long, labeled clearly, great condition/packaging.
Cons:
exposed, confusing remote wires.
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5 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By russ3or8, klamath falls, or on Tuesday, May 01, 2012
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i am very happy with this since i didnt even know it existed and the local stereo store said i was gonna have to re-wire the speakers ugh!
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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1 out of 5

Receiver Wire harness

Written By Gary, Rhode Island on Friday, April 27, 2012
Installed in a 1995 Ford F Series
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The harness was useless, I used power and ground on one harness ( no use for the other 6 ) and the second harness the connector did not match my existing so I had to cut the existing and butt splice it to my radio.
Pros:
There were none.
Cons:
The Crutchfield on line system that offers you an after market harness to match your vehicle is not very accurate, my harnesses were useless for installation.
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5 out of 5

Works Awesome

Written By CitySammy, NYC on Monday, April 02, 2012
Installed in a 1997 Ford Explorer
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Once you get to the amp, which is tucked way in the back qrt. panel, (97 Explorer), setting this up is pretty easy. I found that I couldn't get the antenna to work only using the speaker harness, so I disconnected it from the amp, and just ran it straight to the head unit. Otherwise the power harness and speaker harness work perfectly.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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5 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Mark B., Wake Forest NC on Friday, February 03, 2012
Installed in a 1995 Ford F Series
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this wiring harness made installation very easy
Pros:
step by step instructions with color wiring that matched my original wiring made it very easy
Cons:
none
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5 out of 5

good idear

Written By D, East Coast on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Installed in a 2000 Ford Mustang
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2000 Mustang, premium sound system. Unplugged the factory amp connector, plugged it into my Crutchfield harness, cut the wires a foot or less on the other side of the plug (since I didn't need most of the wire that was in the kit), wired other half of the harness for the power and ground, plug and play. AWESOME
Pros:
good quality, much better than the cheapo harness adapters that were replaced with the old aftermarket cd player
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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5 out of 5

Worked perfectly

Written By Nick, Bakersfield, CA on Monday, September 26, 2011
Installed in a 1994 Mazda B Series
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This wiring harness was the key to making the installation very straightfoward. All I had to do was splice the corresponding wires from the radio using the documentation from the radio with the clearly defined and color coded wires on the harness.Everything worked perfectly the FIRST time!
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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5 out of 5

Ford Receiver Wire Harness

Written By m-will, Colorado Front Range on Sunday, June 19, 2011
Installed in a 1994 Ford Bronco
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What can you say - this harness works, saves the stock wiring, and simplifies the overall wiring job.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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5 out of 5

Just What I Needed

Written By LorenC, Soap Lake, Washington on Saturday, May 21, 2011
Installed in a 1997 Ford Explorer
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This harness was just what I needed to hook up my new car stereo. I was unsure about the application of one of the components but a call to Crutchfield provided the quick answer and everything fit just right.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful
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2 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By mgmuggs, Modesto, CA on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Installed in a 1994 Ford Ranger
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One harness fit the other didn't would have had to strip and wire together everything and still wouldn't know if they were correct. Instructions were real vague. When ordered cd player these were supposed to snap together and ready to go, no such luck.
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3 out of 5

Wrong Speaker Wires for B2300

Written By BrianH, Renton, WA on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Installed in a 1994 Mazda B Series
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The power harness worked just fine on my 1994 B2300. The bypass harness was
not the right fit, however. Many times the Ford Ranger and B2300 parts are
interchangeable. Unfortunately, this was not one of them. I used my old
harness for the speakers.
1 out of 2 people found this helpful
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5 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Dennis, Central Iowa on Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Perfect match
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4 out of 5

life saver

Written By joe, Opelika, AL on Monday, December 06, 2010
Installed in a 1999 Ford Mustang
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this Harness is a life saver. a lot of extra wire for my app but just cut it off and worked
fine(speaker wire for amp bypass)
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1 out of 5

Receiver Wire Harness

Written By Saul Maldonado, Rio Grande Puerto Rico on Monday, November 15, 2010
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It was the wrong one
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