I have an 05 supercrew and want to add the factory sub.....the wires are already there and i would think that it is a plug and play system. I talked to dealerships about purchasing the sub but they wont promise me it will work! A sub from an 04 has the same connector but has 7 wires....mine only has 5 wires and the 04 sub will not work. The problem is the dealership is telling me that the same subs (same part #'s) work in both the 04s and 05s. Any ideas or what could be done to go with factory instead of an aftermarket system?

 

as long as you have the audiophile head unit with the small plug for the sub on it you should have no problem. i do not know of any difference between the 04 and 05 units. i added audiophile to my 05 and no differences were brought to my attention by the dealer or installer.
jim

 

do you have the Ford factory 6 cd/mp3 player?

 

yes...........factory 6 disk cd/mp3 player......wires are under back seat ready to be hooked to sub but i dont have the audiophile head......should my deck work with the sub or will i have to go with audiophile head?

 

Yes you will need a audiophile head unit for the sub to work the non audiophile unit only has 2 plugs the audiophile will have 3 ,also the trucks equipped from the factory with audiophile have tweeters in the front doors,there are usually some oe head units on ebay, I have a 04 style audiophile 6 disc I will be putting on ebay soon but it does not have the mp3 capability

 

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other than listening to "regular" cd's, i don't have much knowledge when it comes to mp3's. what are they, and how are they different from regular cd's?

 

The MP3 format exists so that audio data can be transfered and stored with much smaller files. An MP3 file is compressed, or coded so that it is much smaller than a CD style file. The quality isn't as good, but it is far good enough for most people.

The small size means you can get tons of songs on an iPod or other MP3 player or on a disc. I just burned a disc in MP3 format and I got almost every Beatles album (regular UK realease) on one stinking CD.

So you could have six discs in your changer in the truck, and if the stereo played MP3's, you could have hundreds of songs in there.


PC

 

thank you Sir...for the answer.

 

I put an 04 head unit and sub in my 05, only differance is in the driver radio control on the sterring wheel, the 04 has next preset station (memory) and the 05 has seek function, (next available station)