few questions on 97 mounty

[1091x]

Ok so i went and purchased a alpine head unit to install in the suv and when i go to install it i try 3 diffrent types of harness'es and none of them fit, so i go to an audio warehouse and they tell me that in order for me to have a non stock head unit in the suv that i have to pay them 80 bucks to make a connector from the amp to the head unit inorder for everything to work, i have never done anything towards audio in this car and in my last car it was just plug-n-play, so can anyone tell me exactly how to do this process.

 

[PaisanNYC]

it is true. If you have a stock amp in the vehicle, you would need to rerun a new set of wires from the stock amp to the new head unit. I did it myself. Took about 60-75 minutes of my own time.

 

[Dan Whitaker]

You can buy a pre-made harness for around $15 at Wal-Mart.

You will have to remove the right rear interior panel, the upper bolt for the seat belt (torx bit reqiured) the step plate & right kick panel.

You will also need an antenna wire extesion as it runs to the external amp along with the the speaker harness.

 

[davesexplorer]

It's plug and play, but with quite a bit of extra effort. The last JBL/Premium stereo I worked on I just ended up running new speaker wire to each door and junking the entire factory amp/sub amp/sub setup.