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I am installing a new cd player in my truck. It has the cd player in ther now. I have got a mouting kit and wiring harness. anything i should know before i begin? I was just wondering if the theft light would mess anything up.
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Unfourtunatly with my 1986 ford ranger i had alittle problem. I just turned 17 and recieved a JVC in dash reciever cd player for my birthday. Originally i had the old push button AM FM radio. Lovely thing to have haha 
but on to the story, my brother had to unscrew 4 screws under the top of the dash, take the headlight **** out and take all the dash out basicaly to pieces. So we began our journey into figuring this out. First the wires had to be rewired, every single one so me and my brother put our heads together to fit the right one to the right one, after rewiring the rear craig speakers (that Dukes did a crappy job wiring in the first place) i have and the speakers in the front we had to put it in a mounting bracket and put EVERYTHING back together. Lets just say took us 8 hours :\ about 430 til 1230am.
Hopefully you have a better time putting your player in. Trust me if you have to rewire it, it will take some time and patients but its possible.
Plus it sounds about 1000 times better
Good luck
but on to the story, my brother had to unscrew 4 screws under the top of the dash, take the headlight **** out and take all the dash out basicaly to pieces. So we began our journey into figuring this out. First the wires had to be rewired, every single one so me and my brother put our heads together to fit the right one to the right one, after rewiring the rear craig speakers (that Dukes did a crappy job wiring in the first place) i have and the speakers in the front we had to put it in a mounting bracket and put EVERYTHING back together. Lets just say took us 8 hours :\ about 430 til 1230am.Hopefully you have a better time putting your player in. Trust me if you have to rewire it, it will take some time and patients but its possible.
Plus it sounds about 1000 times better
Good luck
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It's about a 10 or 15 minute install. You need to have the DIN removal tool which you can get at autozone or remove the entire radio bezel. If you use the DIN tool then the head unit just slides out, you unplug it, install the plastic install kit then hook up the new CD player and pop it in. Easy as pie.
Note: Don't cut your factory wiring harness. If you have a CD player that Circuit City carries you can get a wiring harness that requires no wiring and just plugs right in from them.
Note: Don't cut your factory wiring harness. If you have a CD player that Circuit City carries you can get a wiring harness that requires no wiring and just plugs right in from them.
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