Hi,

My Mk4 Escort is still fitted with the atandard Ford radio cassette player and I have a CD player from another car to fit in it...

Body work I can cope with but anything involving wiring goes right over my head... Any help would be appreciated.

From what I gather I need a cable set that will link the wires from the car to the wores at the back of the new cd player but I dont know what to get.

The CD player is a Yakumo Hypersound.

Coming out the back its got 6 wires with plug bits on the end, 2 grey, 2 blue and 2 brown. (Pics to follow).

Theres also two mini scart type sockets with 8 pins in each.

Any suggestions?

 

when i put the cd player in my mk4 xr3i i just bought a lead from halfords that plugged into the wiring harnes and it then plugged into the cd player did the speakers power and everything

hope that helps

 

Heres what the back of the unit looks like.

I think thats what Im after Tenstack, but is it a staandard wire or do I need a Ford specific one, or one specifically for my CD player, or does it need to be specific to both the car and the CD player?

I dont want to go into halfords and end up being pushed into buying a bunch of top end crap when all I need is something I couldve picked up in a hardware store for a few quid.

As I said I havent a clue when it comes to electrics, and I reckon a dodgy sales guy would see me coming a mile off and try and get as much cash off me as possible.

 

depending on the year of your escort will depend on which connector you need bt the radio you have has the iso plug so it will plug straight into the back

just go to halfords ask for the connector lead for your car will be about 15 quid if you canlook at the connectors in your car first yo will be able to see the sahpe of what you need

this is a link to the sort of thing you need
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...%7Crpp%7C%7C30

 

Cheers for all the help guys, I managed to get it sorted.

I did have to make a return trip to Halfords to get an adapter for the arial... Didnt even dawn on me that Id need one, but when I tried to fit the stereo with the new wiring, I relised I did