Aftermarket Radio

[pope_face]

You may not actually have to remove your rear seat in order to remove the panel... I did both of the panels, and with the right tools it took me about 15 minutes per side to pull everything off and then replace everything save for the panel... The only tricky part is the seatbelt... you need a #50 Torx bit (that you can pick up anywhere for under $5) and you have to pull the seatbelt out all the way and tie/clamp/attach something to it right where it goes into the plastic panel... I just used a piece of string and folded the seatbelt in half lengthwise, tied it, then folded it back and forth and tied it a couple more times... That made it small enough to fit through the gap in the panel, but too large to get sucked back into the seatbelt holder... if it gets sucked all the way in, you might be screwed, as that happened to me in my previous car and I wasn't able to pull the seatbelt out again in order to use it...

 

[Randell86]

Aftermarket Stereo

ok so I have a Panasonic CQ-C4505u stereo and I put it into my vehicle I took yellow to yellow and so on so forth right, very skinny blue wire hooked up to blue and white strip wire, know here is the problem the stereo has to be cranked to max for any sounds to come out can some one please explain what is wrong and either show through pictures or explain in laymans terms how to fix this, also it comes with a spare battery and the red, black, and speaker cords for a another setup in the trunk dont have anything for the trunk yet but need decent volume out of stock speakers please and thank you

 

[5spdman]

I had the premium audio in both of my Explorers (93 sport and my current 91 XLT). In the sport, I just ran wires from one plug to the other, bypassing the factory amp. Sounded OK, and would be alright to go that route (ran it that way for 6 years), but I wasn't the biggest fan. When I got my XLT and moved everything over to that, I actually took out all the original wiring and ran brand new 16g speaker wire to each speaker. Sounds much better!