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May 24, 2004 | 03:19 PM

leegarcia84

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Radio questions.

I have an 88 XLT with original am/fm w/cass radio (not premium SS). Times are hard and gas is expensive. There's nothing wrong with the cassette player, but I'm wanting to upgrade to CD. Car kit is not to my liking. If I'm correct the Aerostars never has original factory CD players. So in that case I'm wondering if the factory Am/FM cd play from an F-series truck would fit in my star with little or no mods. Considering the fact that 88 has the screw in mount, while the newer fords have the clip in thingy. Would it or wouldn't it?

Thanx,
ROY

Jun 1, 2004 | 12:55 PM

Berry

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The easy way to do this is to get one of those add on CD players.
I put a 10 disc unit under the front seat and it is just fine.
This way I didn't have to mess with the wiring harness.

Jun 1, 2004 | 04:42 PM

Dave93

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the easyest way to upgrade would probaly just be using a wireing harnest, and a new indash cd player, you could pick one up for around 70 bucks at wall mart and i have seen some go for as little as 30 on ebay, if you have the cd player from and F-series truck pull out your aerostar tape deck and hope to god that the wireing harnesses match up, if they dont then i dont realy know, but i think your best bet would be what berry said or to get a harness and a new deck

Jun 2, 2004 | 04:40 PM

suprajztwenty

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just go get a cheap cd player like me, mine was 60 bux with a 20$ rebate. works great, only complaint is theres no radio presets. if you would like to know the color coding, red is ground, thats the hardest to figure out. and the rest is pretty simple, just play around untill you get the speakers on the correct wires. by the way, the rear speakers are tied into each other, so if one + isnt connected the other speaker on that side wont work either. hope it helps. i know itll get confusing but youll figure it out.

Jun 3, 2004 | 02:25 PM

rickm5

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From: cincinnati hamilton

any body replace those back speakers with something better without rewiring? rick

Sep 9, 2004 | 07:10 AM

AeroPA

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I put 6X9 Jensen Triax in mine, then installed a good Pioneer deck. Go get a wiring harness adapter, everybody sells them. They plug right into the factory harness, and you wire your deck into the adapter, no cutting the wiring harness at all.

I put a 200 watt amp under the driver's seat for the rear speakers, sounds good to my ears.