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Only 1 plug worked

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Plenty of length on the wires, and easy to read color codes

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Half good, half wrong part

Half of it worked great, the grey harness, the other half, black harness, was not for my application, 1996 Ford Ranger. I didn't need that side because I am running all new wires to my speakers.

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Nice to know someone still carries these

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Perfect

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Hard to believe ...

Hard to believe that the connectors supplied with my order fit perfectly with the factory connectors in my 1994 Ford Ranger. The color-coded wiring diagrams and instructions were spot on and easy to follow. There was enough speaker wiring included to wire up three vehicles.

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Top quality ...just as expected

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Perfect fit!

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fit and worked perfectly, made the hook up simple and fast.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Wiring harness connected right up to the plug for the speakers, in place of the factory amp in the trunk. More than enough length to get from the trunk amp location up to the head unit in the dash. Power connector fit perfectly also. Saved a lot of time that would have been needed to trace and splice wiring.

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Good buy, well worth the money.

It's a good quality wire harness .

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Metra wiring harness

Sure makes life easier

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Only one harness worked in my '96 F-150 XL regular cab. It's not a big deal. I just cut off the black factory connector and spliced into the head unit harness.

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Wrong harness for 2000 Explorer

This harness was purchased to install into a 2000 Ford Explorer that had the OEM integrated CD and tape player. Upon completing the needed wiring harness I was directed into ordering this which was incorrect as this one is for Explorers that have a rear mounted factory amplifier. What I actually needed was the Metra 70-1771. I placed a call into support and requested the correct harness which was promptly sent out. The support at Crutchfield has always been fantastic.

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Wire harnes

Just what my dad needed to bypass the factory AMPLIFIER on a 2000 base model mustang. The wires were Long enough to run from the head unit to the new 4way amp behind the rear seats. Crutchfield really came came through

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It did not match my factory plug. Had to go to the local parts store to get the correct plug.

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well constructed

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Perfect OEM harness

With these harnesses installation became a breeze!

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great ,solved a real mystery, thanks

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Doesn't fit 01 explorer

Wiring harness wasn't even close to fitting my 2001 Ford Explorer XLT even though Crutchfield said it would

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More than enough wore given to remove the factory amp. Nice kit!

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Excellent stuff here. Just match the wires with the diagram and plug in to factory plugs.

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good way to go

worked fit perfect

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Worked like a dream

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Would get the job done if correct

95' f350 crew diesel, the black plug was incorrect. The gray plug was very flimsy and the metal connectors moved around independently so if you used it you would have to line them up before installing.

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it works

It worked

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Perfect fit for 97 Ford Explorer Limited

Perfect!!! Super easy install

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perfect,

exactly what I needed, the Rep reccomneded just the right stuff

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Plenty of line and all connectors fit as advertised. The long bundle is 204" long and when it has to go to the trunk you think you need it all. Actually I had about 18" extra. The connector to the factory radio bundle fits perfectly.

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Made the installation much easier. Well worth the money spent

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Made the Premium Sound Bypass w/ the factory amp under the passenger seat very simply with extra long wiring to get to the amp plug located next to the amp. Good job on the design for the 1993 Mustang for the 1 year they put the amp under the seat vs right behind the stereo in the dash.

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Simplifies install

Used it on a 2000 Mustang to put an aftermarket stereo in. I bypassed the factory amp at the same time. Very easy to match up the wire colors or functions. Just plug into factory plug and a few splices later you are done.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Matched up perfectly to the Lincoln harnesses

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Made install a quick job

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Plug and play, what more can I say.

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Good instructions and product worked great.

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Did not fit 2001 Explorer

The wiring kit had different connectors than my vehicle although it was the one suggested by Crutchfield. I ended up having to run out and buy an adapter locally.

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Free!

It's amazing how the wiring is free for the instalation. This makes me want to share this site with every friend I have.

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couldn't used they sent the wrong set for my 01 explorer

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Good wiring kit

Good wiring kit.

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Worked perfect

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Awesome, perfect for my Lincoln

Awesome, perfect for my Lincoln

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

This harness did not work in my 98 Explorer with the premium head unit. After a quick call to Crutchfield support I had the correct harness.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

I shopped at local discount retailer and bought 2 connectors that did not work. A local auto store could not help me. This one fixed the problem and worked perfect.

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Perfect Harness for my truck

The right harness to wire my new radio to my 1995 F-150 Truck. Worked pefectly

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woot!

So...many...colorful...wires!!!!

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Good kit

This kit was exactly what I needed. Worked perfectly to route the speaker outputs to the back corner where the factory amp is.

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No cutting wires

This made my install easy. Simple to use.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

There is NO way I'd every try to install a stereo in a car without this harness . So Easy to install and No cutting of the Factory wiring . This way if you ever want to reinstall the Factory unit it will as easy as unplug the Metra harness and plug in the factory unit .

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wire harness

taking the guess work out of wiring

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alot of wire

matched factory plug perfect, only prob was Crutchfield sold me the factory amp bypass kit. the 96 f250 never had a factory amp.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

quality, good fit, right price

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Installed in a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder to replace the BOSE Premium Sound Package. It is now far the better. Works flawlessly, was a pleasure to work with the Crutchfield team. Very easy to work with and installation was quite fast. Very glad to work with Crutchfield, and will do so in the future without a doubt.

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The perfect work around the factory amplifier

I ordered an Alpine car stereo, 4 speakers, and dash mounting kit for my daughters 99 Ford Escort. Crutchfield sent me all the goodies to make the install as easy as could be. However, because my daughter had a tape stuck in the factory tape deck, I didn't see the label that said "Premium Sound." With the premium sound option, there is a power amplifier under the drivers seat. In order to install an after market stereo with speakers, you have to bypass this amp. This pig tail is all that is required. Unplug factory amp (two connections), plug in pig tail, and run the wires under the carpet and up to the new stereos speaker connections. That's it. Worked like a champ. The pig tail comes with about 10 feet of wire. Don't let that scare you. Just cut the wires up near the new stereo with a little extra length to play with and your done.

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Fast and easy

I ended up using the Scosche CFDK6 factory integration kit when I realized I would have to run about 10 feet of wiring harness from the right rear of my Explorer (where the amp is) to the front of the car. Not being familiar with the install process, I thought nothing of it when Crutchfield offered me this "free" harness and the head unit I was installing already had amplified outputs. So I said, "sure, we'll bypass the amp". It would have been nice if my "advisor" had said "hey, you might want to re-think that and save yourself a few hours of work and aggravation and by this $15 integration module instead".

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wrong wiring for my car

I wish this would have worked. It was advertised to bypass my factory amplifiers. It did not the plug was right but it didn't work. I do not blame the product but're technicians that sent it. I finally bought a wiring harness that used the factory amp.

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Perfect

Worked perfectly.

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Always Use A Harness

This harness has more then enough wire to run. Always use a harness, don't cut stock wires

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bill

product work as advertized

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Bypass harness

Completed install easily, real easy to wire.

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Wrong original stereo model

I can't use the black one, because I confused my original stereo model, so I acquired the black one in other store to connect the speakers, is why I assigned three stars for this item

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Wire harness

Worked perfect, nice to solder wires together in comfort then under dash

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Didn't need them but...

I ended up not needing these but that's OK, they didn't cost anything. The wiring diagrams make it just about fool proof.

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Harness

Perfect fit. I also needed the harness to wire the factory amp. Crutchfield included this along with instructions. Perfect

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Factory amp bypass harness

My application was a 1999 Ford Mustang with the standard audio system so I ended up cutting off all but a foot of the speaker harness. Otherwise it was very straight forward. I de-pined a couple of the wires that were not used like the blue remote turn-on lead on the speaker harness and one of the illumination wires on the main harness.

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Harness

I am sure this is a fine wiring harness, but it did not fit my radio/truck, it was returned, the salespeople should have known, I had to get the proper wiring harness somehwere else.

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makes it easy

This harness is a must for bypassing the factory amp. I ran this harness down the right side of the car in the factory wire chase and then up under the dash to the radio location. I even had to cut off about 2.5 feet of wire. I used it in a 97 Town Car and I can't think of any application that would require a longer harness. Once I decided to remove the rear seat the acutal running of the harness took about 20 minutes.

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Power and speaker harness.

The only part the worked snapped in right was the power connection. The only reason it gets a two instead of a one or less. The speaker/wire harness did not fit the connections for the amp bypass. So the only good that came out of it was I was able to use the wire to run it directly from the speakers to the radio. Lucky it was free wire.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

just what i wanted

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Perfect

Perfect for my application. Only gripe is that the wires are not sheathed. Whenever you run wire through a vehicle it shouldn't be just wires, they should be protected. Just enough wire. Had about 2 feet extra so I just coiled it behind the dash. Excellent instructions that anyone could follow. I found the remote lead to be slightly confusing, so I just hooked it up to the amp in the back because I didn't have a remote antenna.

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i am very happy with this since i didnt even know it existed and the local stereo store said i was gonna have to re-wire the speakers ugh!

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Receiver Wire harness

The harness was useless, I used power and ground on one harness ( no use for the other 6 ) and the second harness the connector did not match my existing so I had to cut the existing and butt splice it to my radio.

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Works Awesome

Once you get to the amp, which is tucked way in the back qrt. panel, (97 Explorer), setting this up is pretty easy. I found that I couldn't get the antenna to work only using the speaker harness, so I disconnected it from the amp, and just ran it straight to the head unit. Otherwise the power harness and speaker harness work perfectly.

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Receiver Wire Harness

this wiring harness made installation very easy

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good idear

2000 Mustang, premium sound system. Unplugged the factory amp connector, plugged it into my Crutchfield harness, cut the wires a foot or less on the other side of the plug (since I didn't need most of the wire that was in the kit), wired other half of the harness for the power and ground, plug and play. AWESOME

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Worked perfectly

This wiring harness was the key to making the installation very straightfoward. All I had to do was splice the corresponding wires from the radio using the documentation from the radio with the clearly defined and color coded wires on the harness.Everything worked perfectly the FIRST time!

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Ford Receiver Wire Harness

What can you say - this harness works, saves the stock wiring, and simplifies the overall wiring job.

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Just What I Needed

This harness was just what I needed to hook up my new car stereo. I was unsure about the application of one of the components but a call to Crutchfield provided the quick answer and everything fit just right.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

One harness fit the other didn't would have had to strip and wire together everything and still wouldn't know if they were correct. Instructions were real vague. When ordered cd player these were supposed to snap together and ready to go, no such luck.

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Wrong Speaker Wires for B2300

The power harness worked just fine on my 1994 B2300. The bypass harness was not the right fit, however. Many times the Ford Ranger and B2300 parts are interchangeable. Unfortunately, this was not one of them. I used my old harness for the speakers.

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Perfect match

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life saver

this Harness is a life saver. a lot of extra wire for my app but just cut it off and worked fine(speaker wire for amp bypass)

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It was the wrong one

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Get Ready to Wire the ENTIRE CAR!!

The last one of these Town Cars I did, utilized a simple By-Pass Harness that just went right around the Factory Amp (in the trunk). The Amp appears to be the same as earlier models (NON JBL - Ford Amp). The By-Pass Harness I received this time, goes ALL THE WAY from the Head Unit to the TRUNK!!! I'm gonna' have to Rip This Car APART to do this job!! Not Very Happy with this change. Too much extra work, to do the same thing that a TWO-FOOT By-Pass did before!!

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Perfect Fit! Take your time and be patient!

Exactly what I needed in order to bypass the factory amp in my 1996 Ford Explorer XLT with Premium sound package. Make sure you have the proper clip removal tools and for the back trim panel. Be careful to not push the top of the rear trim panel into the headliner as to not tear it. The amp is located in the passenger rear under the back window behind the trim panel. Pry off the trim along the passenger side of the car and place the wire in the factory track under the trim. I had about 5 feet of extra wire so I coiled and zip tied it together behind the passenger front kick panel. Plan on it taking about 1 - 1.5 hours to disassemble the car, run the wire, solder the wire and heat shrink tube, zip tie the wire in place, behind the glove box, and reinstall the panels that were removed.

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Not all harnesses are created equal...

There is nothing wrong with this harness in and of itself. Directions are reasonably clear, and it can accomplish what you need. The thing that I would like to make Ford owners aware of is that I have had two Ford vehicles with factory upgraded stereos which means that Ford includes an amplifer in their system that when using this harness you would have to bypass. Most of the time this amplifier is located no where near the radio itself and you will have to take apart half of your car as well as reroute speaker cabling in order to do this. That is not very appealing to me and no matter how careful I am, things get broken and or are never reafixed as well as they originally were. So in short while this is a good product, I want people to know that spending just a few more dollars for the amp integrating wiring harness instead of this one will save literally hours of install time, give you solderless connectors, and lessen the chance of damaging your vehicle on the install as everything will be located in the radio compartment.

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Fit perfectly

The adapter fit. Took about an hour to run the wires from the rear amp to the head unit. Not as hard as I was expecting actually, just peel up the trim and follow the other wires in the wire tracks.

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Works great, saves time

Kudos to Crutchfield for providing wiring harnesses for free. That's why I'll never buy anywhere else. This makes it pretty darn easy to do a pro installation and saves you time to boot.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

this was exactly what I needed to install the aftermarket head unit, this matched the factory harness perfect, good job Crutchfield,, keep it up

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Crutchfield is the ONLY one to have this adapter!

Here is the deal. On these cars there is an amp in the back of the vehicle. The harness you get is basically an amp bypass. What you need to do is run a set of wires all the way from the head unit to the amp in the back of the vehicle. Plan on spending an hour to run the wires. Do not be misled by other companies. This is the adapter that you need. Crutchfield has done their homework!

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Ford F-150 Receiver Wire Harness

I accidentally ordered the wrong harness (my bad) and when I realized it I called support immediately, told the guy what had happened and with one question he knew the correct harness I needed and told me it would be sent right away. I got it 2 days later and it fit like a glove. No problems here. I love these guys.

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Metra 70-5008 Receiver Wiring Harness

Good product, little bit of time to install but the directions were easy to follow and in the end it works great!

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Did the job

Worked great. Got to do all the labor in front of the TV.

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