Changing The Head Unit in a 2005 Ford *12V-5V conversion*

[@jjbcentral]

Any chance you have a link to the part on Crutchfield??? Thanks for the video!!

[@jjbcentral]

Actually, I think I found it www.crutchfield.com/p_120AFDI5V/Axxess-AFDI-5V.html

[@jesusrodriguez-hq8fe]

Did it end up working please help me😂

[@jjbcentral]

@@jesusrodriguez-hq8fe I sold it before doing the work. Sorry.

[@MrMustangMan]

12v to 5v converter is called "Axxess AFDI-5V" wire harness is "Metra 70-5521 Receiver Wiring Harness"

[@cukicastillo8780]

Thanks i just hooked mine up and it worked like a charm.

[@thetruthalwaysprevails]

Thank you for your video it's the Last half hr of 2023 and its still helping people. Hope you have a good 2024.

[@musicwithmr.yvellez3583]

Thank you. You helped me, especially the part of the blue/red “turn on” wire going to BOTH blue/white wires of the sub woofer. The directions that come with the AXFD-5V are not clear on this point. Thank you so much.

[@BuiltByOLeary]

My pleasure

[@jayranger9605]

Your right, no clear shows this process I’ve been looking. Thank you !

[@becki4bears]

I have been searching for hours to find this video. You're right when you say no one else has this.

[@BuiltByOLeary]

becki4bears glad I could help!

[@waynemajors2270]

Thank you for this video I have been looking for many hours for this video no one has this I’m glad u made it thank you

[@Ease_E_Street]

THANK YOU!!!!!! been searching for days trying to find the proper way to wire that up for it to work and like you said NOBODY shows this!

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Robert Dobbs you’re so welcome my friend!

[@marlowelofton1828]

Thanks for you video. Used your procedure for changing a 2002 Ford Escape factory Premium head unit. The include installation sheet, is not very detailed. Your showing what and where wires need to be connected was just what I needed. Thanks!

[@BuiltByOLeary]

marlowe lofton you’re so welcome!

[@drewflo17]

I have never commented on a video ever, but you nailed it I looked forever on how this subwoofer connections worked and this is the only one I found. Thanks a ton!!

[@kirkmiller8242]

Putting new headunit in my 2008 Mustang with Shaker500 and this helped clear things up. Thanks!

[@downen1264]

Had i not seen this video i would have been so stumped. Thank you! Just did the install perfect the first time!

[@mr.wilsonnn8495]

I am doing this for the first time and this helped me so much, Thank You.

[@taterbuzz]

Thank you for this! Spent a long time trying to figure out where to install this converter and like you said, nobody really mentions it. Followed your directions and it worked perfectly for me.

[@Bruhhh0000]

Thank you for making this video nobody else explains it good

[@freddykruger95]

Thanks man, you really saved me and my friend from going crazy!

[@michaelkoger1714]

My hero. Seriously, thank you for shooting this video. This is the exact setup in my 2008 lincoln town car

[@BuiltByOLeary]

You’re so welcome. Sorry for the poor quality and lack of any consistency with my terminology 😅

[@Smash214]

I guess I got lucky. This was the first search!! Thanks Jonathan huge help.

[@Romenet310]

Thank you, Sir! I ran across this video before I got my car stereo and added it to my watch list. Sure enough, I have the same premium stereo with the factory subwoofer. The gave me everything I needed but this tells what I need to know to wire in the adapter. Thanks again!

[@alexmendez7535]

THANK YOU I BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR ABSOLUTELY FOR MONTHS I WAS WONDERING HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CONNECT IT. literally everytime i connect my woofers it makes a large pop noise so i kept. unplugged for months and now that i seen this thank you.!! your are absolutely hero.!!

[@bama9445]

Thank you so much dude. I've been researching and researching trying to find out what the thing I needed for this.

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Glad to help!

[@FINELINEVAN]

Thanks, You made this easy to see and understand and see.

[@5252wolfman]

I just hook up in a 2004 mustang with mach 460( stereo-avh279Bt) by doing this and it works GREAT. THIS is correct way and it does work and sounds so good.

[@spadekersey4102]

THANK YOU! Ive been looking for this for like a year. Definitely upgrading the stereo tomorrow. Thanks again!

[@chemdawg2167]

Thank you, was struggling to get rid of the pop on turn on, and you cleared up the wire connection issue I was having for the last 2hrs... Much Appreciated.....

[@dustinday8664]

Thanks a lot nobody else mentions this anywhere I’m trying to hook up one in my 08 grand Marquis and I have no idea until I watched your video how to hook up that blue wire thanks man

[@vden02]

THANKYOU!!! I'm a savvy woman that can use a chainsaw, build pretty much anything with wood, lay floors, clean carburetors etc BUT I've never installed a stereo! My ford 500 OEM stereo ate the dust so I ordered from Crutchfield. My mechanic wanted from 75 to 150 to install it. Now I don't mind paying but I thought how hard could this be. Holy moly I was lost with what to do with this part, what it connected to and the directions were no help. So thank you, you just saved me $ and or much frustration 😉

[@jotownzer473]

Still helping people! Thanks Jonathan.

[@CarlyEaley]

Thank you for making this video!! I was searching and searching...saved me a lot of trial and error 😅 you rock 🤘

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Carly Ealey it’s my pleasure!

[@annmanzo]

Thank you, there are no other video's of this. Really helped. mine is 2004 but same set up

[@motox20]

Instead of buying the step down converter you can just wire in a 1.5k resistor between the blue/white amp turn on wires on the RCA harness and the blue wire from main harness. Just did this yesterday when installing new radio in a Town Car, works perfectly.

[@AB-cy4wl]

hey man, do you think this will do? www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0185FIJY0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 You only need 1 resistor to connect those 3 wires together? or 2 resistors 1 for each wire blue/white wire to connect them to the radio's blue/white wire? Thanks for any help!

[@motox20]

A B- Yeah that resistor will work. Just need one, what you do is twist the ends of the two blue wires from the harness with the RCA's together and solder the resistor to them and solder the other end to the blue amp turn on wire on the radio harness. Basically you treat the two blue wires on the RCA harness as one wire and treat the resistor like an in-line fuse(in terms of where to put it I mean). Also, unrelated but if you happen to have a Pioneer head unit with dvd functionality, even on the newer models you can still just ground the parking brake wire. But since newer models require you to engage the parking brake twice(the bypass switch you can buy uses a pulse for that reason), you can wire the parking brake wire to ground and add a toggle switch, then after the radio turns on(radio requires signal after radio turns on now) just toggle the ground twice and voila.

[@AB-cy4wl]

Thanks brother will give it a try this week!

[@fantasma744]

EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thanks for the video!!

[@trevormadoinia7339]

Thank you so much works great now with my new stereo

[@imboredadr]

This helped me a lot, thanks!

[@BuiltByOLeary]

imboredadr you’re so welcome!

[@LuisRamirez-jq4ex]

Thank you so much this was very helpful

[@deeje3688]

Thanks for the vid man, help me out big time

[@aztecaxvida]

Thanks so much I was having this exact problem. Thanks very much.

[@BuiltByOLeary]

aztecaxvida you’re so welcome!

[@dimitristigas9306]

Thank you. Really helped me

[@michaelperkinssr3451]

thanks that helped on my 2000 Mountaineer been wondering how for so long thanks

[@bobbykoller2003]

Would have been nice to see how you attached to the resistor.

[@petetrevino9644]

Thank you for this video help me 100%

[@jonwiersig5800]

It looks like you have 3 connections on the back of your original radio, just like mine on my 2004 Grand Marquis. The largest is the main radio connection. One of the others is to the sub that you did a good job explaining how to connect. What is the 3rd connector on the back of the origilan radio for and does it need to be connected? Thanks,

[@MakePeopleMadForFun]

I just did a double din install today on my 07 escape but I didn’t have a leftover blue and white wire. Would I have to wire it with the other blue and white ones on the adapter and stereo harness?

[@dungdoan9830]

Thanks for the Vid, I have a 01 Acura TL and the back of the radio has the same two big and Lil plug ins........

[@Lazy_Prophet]

Well I thought I had it figured out, exactly like you showed, but the small wire harness that goes to factory amp/sub doesn't fit. Then I've seen some people say they didn't even need that extra small harness. My problem is my front speakers aren't working.

[@timgreenwaldt5378]

Thank you. The directions from Axxess suck. I filed a replacement from Amazon but I will give it a try this way. I definitely had it wired wrong. Thank you again I will be trying this later.

[@Hunt4Yoshi]

I installed mine inline near the subwoofer so i dont have such a messy harness

[@theone3210the]

Great Job Thanks, helps me out on my ford five hundred

[@UsoDak]

the Blue and Blue wire that you hooked together for the conversion wire, was it wires that you hooked to that plastic connector piece or did those blue wires come on that same plug with the two rca wires?

[@BuiltByOLeary]

The new harness for the sub has two blue wires. Connect those wires together as well as the blue and red wire from the converter. There should be a total of three blue wires bound together from the sub. I hope this answers your question and I apologize for replying so late.

[@teecee398]

I need help.they chopped the harness and brought a scoshe interface but the colors dont matvh up n stereo dont work can u send me a pic of ur harness so i can figure this out 2005 f500

[@PolarCFWTM]

I love you I’ve been looking forever

[@BuiltByOLeary]

PolarCFW you’re so welcome 😉

[@ryanv7195]

Thanks so much. Putting a new headunit in my stang s197 and could not find this anywhere. On your new headunit did you have a sub out or did u plug it into rear speaker rca outs?

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Ryan v Glad to help! I plugged mine into the rca outs

[@ryanv7195]

Jonathan O'Leary Thanks a lot. I'm glad because if I needed a specific sub out i may need to buy another head unit. But if rca outs worked that's great. Makes sense it should but glad to hear from someone who knows

[@joseguerrero8831]

Thankss!!!

[@ericprice5316]

Can this work on my 2009 Mazda Tribute?

[@BuiltByOLeary]

@@ericprice5316 it should as long as it has the same subwoofer system.

[@edwinroxursox]

you are awesome! thanks for this, i was wondering what the heck to do with that damn blue wire

[@jimschannelx]

Im so glad that i found your video! I just ordered new aftermarket radio to replace my shaker 500. On the shaker system i have amp connection, speaker connection (the big harness) and there is the third one that i dont know what is it for. The harness from crutchfield comes with just 2(amp and speakers). What should i do with the third one from my car? I also have a question about your conversion from 12v to 5v. Could i use a 1.5k ohm resistor that would go between two blue/white wires from amp to blue/white wire from aftermarket radio harness instead of voltage regulator? Hope you are all good and that you will see my comment! Thanks!

[@chrisvincent1701]

Thank you very much!!

[@utipopi1]

Wow thanx a ton!

[@franleon784]

Where is you from??? Thanks

[@BuiltByOLeary]

fran leon Georgia

[@STANGm06deGT]

I am going through this same problem right now in my 06 Mustang GT, trying to install a boss aftermarket cd/radio player. Got everything from Crutchfield also. They should make a video for each aftermarket radio and specific cars, these instructions can be hard to understand !!!

[@barchetta22]

great

[@christophersmaniotto4790]

Thank you so much. This is so helpful I could kiss you rn

[@christophersmaniotto4790]

How did you end up securing the after market head unit since I’m assuming it didn’t have the spring clips like the stock head unit. Did you just drill into the plastic?

[@FizzyBoobele]

Hey thank you so much for the video, i have a 05 Mustang GT with the factory Shaker 500 amplified system with the subs, i bought all the right harnesses, however on ----> images.crutchfieldonline.com/ImageBank/v20140403124600/Manuals/120/120705521.PDF it mentioned to connect the blue/white wire from the 12v-5v converter which you have done successfully! However my after market headunit doesnt have the blue/white remote amp turn on wire..... it does have the blue power antenna wire....so could i connect the blue/white wire from the 12v-5v converter to the blue wire that comes out of the head unit that connects to the harnesse's blue wire??? PLEASE HELP ..thanks alot

[@BuiltByOLeary]

So you don't have a blue/white wire from your new aftermarket head unit adapter? Hmm...if you just have a blue wire left after you connect everything else up then I would assume that that is the one you use. I would try it and see if it works. If it doesn't, the customer support team at Crutchfield are fantastic and way more experienced and knowledgeable than me. I would give them a call. Hope this helps! =)

[@Mustangladyme]

When he says hook blue to blue and white when he's at the small gray amp connector don't look for solid blue. Blue and white , blue and white. The blue and red hook up. He should have said no I'm wrong.

[@williamsoncolin8652]

I love you

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Found the video helpful I guess. lol

[@adamhg985]

I did this now I am getting a constant hum from sub/amp

[@keithelliott729]

twist caps?? would of been better just wrap and tape with electrical tape lol. but really the threads in a twist cap cut the stranded wire and with vibration will fall off

[@BuiltByOLeary]

Never had a problem with wire nuts. They are designed for the purpose of connecting wires together. I prefer them to tape or splicers for the simple fact that I can quickly and easily remove the head unit at any time. If you have the correct size nut for the gage of wire that is being used, then there shouldn't be any problems. =)

[@ReginaJannie]

Here is a good one on the resistor for a metra 70-5521 installation from 2013: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHeslmZ_fq98mtU

[@John859595]

Would be even more helpful if you said what the wires did instead of just their colors. Manufactures are not doing a good job of sticking to color codes.

[@BuiltByOLeary]

that would've been a good idea. thanks for the suggestion

[@jimcooper7457]

Find the best channel what does that mean at the very end of the video

[@BuiltByOLeary]

What I meant by that was my head unit has two banks of left and right (white and red). The first one I plugged into had sound but it was really weak. The second one had perfect sound. Not too sure what the difference was but I just know in this particular head unit it made a difference

[@Mustangladyme]

Nope

[@freddykruger95]

Thanks man, you really saved me and my friend from going crazy!

[@freddykruger95]

Thanks man, you really saved me and my friend from going crazy!

[@BuiltByOLeary]

TheundeadZombie glad be be of assistance!