Devon
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- '91 XLT
Hi all! I am so far out of my league on this forum, but I'm hoping you'll give this audio-idiot a hand anyway...
The factory am/fm/cassette unit in my '91 XLT finally died. I use the radio basically just to get traffic reports for my daily commute, and am not particularly picky about sound quality for music (don't shoot me!), though I do pop an occasional tape in.
I thought it'd be nice to at least have a CD player, so I went on over to crutchfield.com and picked up a basic Kenwood (KDC-122):
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-1YXeFIKrdS6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?i=113KDC122
Got the wiring harness to use the factory amp I've already got:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-1YXeFIKrdS6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?i=142C4FDK5
Hooked it all up like so (see photo at link below):
http://www.brickmanhouse.com/junkdrawer/junkdrawer.htm
(By the way, ignore the bare and taped connections in the photo-- I snapped the pic before I finished putting the crimp connectors on)
Plugged it in to the Explorer, and... bleah. Even at the max volume on the radio, I can just hear it. Plus, the reception on the radio isn't all that great (it was better on the factory unit before it died!).
So, my questions are three:
1. What do I do about the volume problem?
2. What's up with the poor reception? Did I just not get a decent unit? Could it be an antenna problem?
3. Since I was a total idiot and installed the Kenwood in the dash, how do I get the darn thing out now to fix problems 1 and 2?
Thanks so much for any advice you can give!
Devon
The factory am/fm/cassette unit in my '91 XLT finally died. I use the radio basically just to get traffic reports for my daily commute, and am not particularly picky about sound quality for music (don't shoot me!), though I do pop an occasional tape in.
I thought it'd be nice to at least have a CD player, so I went on over to crutchfield.com and picked up a basic Kenwood (KDC-122):
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-1YXeFIKrdS6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?i=113KDC122
Got the wiring harness to use the factory amp I've already got:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-1YXeFIKrdS6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?i=142C4FDK5
Hooked it all up like so (see photo at link below):
http://www.brickmanhouse.com/junkdrawer/junkdrawer.htm
(By the way, ignore the bare and taped connections in the photo-- I snapped the pic before I finished putting the crimp connectors on)
Plugged it in to the Explorer, and... bleah. Even at the max volume on the radio, I can just hear it. Plus, the reception on the radio isn't all that great (it was better on the factory unit before it died!).
So, my questions are three:
1. What do I do about the volume problem?
2. What's up with the poor reception? Did I just not get a decent unit? Could it be an antenna problem?
3. Since I was a total idiot and installed the Kenwood in the dash, how do I get the darn thing out now to fix problems 1 and 2?
Thanks so much for any advice you can give!
Devon
