Weird Ford premium system

[shinobis]

Well I have had two ford explorers (93/94) with premium systems and was able to switch out with the correct harness with no problem. Then I decide to pick up a 93 Mercury Villager which some how came with a Ford premium system so I figure cool this should be easy. Pull the radio as it looks like everyone I had in the explorers. Well once pulling it it had the two standard plugs, one for connections and the second for the speakers then came the curve ball. Below the speaker connections the is a second plug with 2 wires not sure what those are for. Also next to the atenna plug there is a second plug which after testing turn out to be the only power coming into the head unit. Can anyone help even though its not an explorer. Trying to switch it out for a pioneer d3900mp

Thanks in advance.
Rich P
Newark, NJ

 

[kfkodiak]

There have been several different connector styles over the years. You'll need a wiring diagram to figure out exactly what each wire does.

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[shinobis]

This would be the one including a third plug for the two pins at the bottom.

My harness fits these two plugs. But as stated there is a third plug which plus into the two prongs below the 6 prongs. Also the antenna plug on the radio has a male one next to it which is the only power source going in. We even check the plugs with a light tester to see if any power coming from any of the wire and nothing.

 

[Anime]

The system should be the same as the premium one in the 93/94 Explorer, from the look of the factory plugs. The harness that plugs into the plug on the left should give the power, ground, ignition, and amp leads, and the eight prongs is the low output to the factory amp. I would guess that since the 2 prongs are similar in appearance to the eight low output prongs, that they are a audio input from a factory CD changer or something.

 

[CDW6212R]

Start at a stereo shop, ask for the adapter harness for that model vehicle. The adapters have all of the wires labeled. You then hard wire the car adapters to the radio adapter harness, voila it plugs in. Good luck,

 

[shinobis]

Actually thats what I thought. I have the harness that fits the two plugs shown. Maybe I have to check the van over to see if there is a cd changer somewhere installed. But the main concern is the power wire. Usually the yellow wire handle the power and the red is the acc. But in this case the is a power wire as thick as the antenna wire, and goes into a jack right next to the antenna. So still trying to figure out how to get that to the yellow wire to give it power.

But thanks for all the help so far. Like I said the other stereos were easy.

 

[cobrajeff]

The two-pin plug on the bottom is for early remote-controls. Villager and Taurus were the first carlines to have remote controls for the radio, mounted on the instrument panel (later models would put the remote on the steering wheel). This connector was also used on automated test equipment in-plant to test the radio. You won't be needing a connection to it.

Jeff