Wanting to change that Keenwood out of your STX

Here is how the wires go(this how it is on my truck may be the same on all stx or may be different)

Radio/ adapter-------------------------- truck wires

yellow-------------------------------green with brown or purple stripe
red-----------------------------------Black with purple stripe
black---------------------------------black with green stripe
purple-------------------------------orange with red stripe
purple with black stripe------------------brown with pink stripe
white---------------------------------orange with green stripe
white with black stripe-----------------Blue with white stripe
green------------------------------gray with blue stripe
green with black stripe----------------brown with white or yellow stipe coulnt tell
gray----------------------------------white with green stripe
gray with black stripe---------------green with orange stripe
blue--------------------------------blue used for amps

 

But I like my Radio, the speakers bite though.

 

Yeah the Kenwood wasnt bad i just had a better and more expensive stereo. As far as door and back speakers go in my opinion the alpine type r's are the best. I have them all around with a mtx thunderfrom with to mtx 10's with a 400watt amp pushing them Sounds great

you can see it in my profile below

 

Steven, Tell me more about the electronics. What speakers did you put in the front and rear, model numbers and sizes? Are they new or were they also out of your old truck? Where is the amp? Where did you buy the box, online/local?

I'm trying to figure out what to put in my truck. I'm also not that up to date with speakers.

 

Ok the door and rear speakers are 5x7 Alpine type R's best sounding imo. For the subs I have two 10inch MTX6000's in a mtx thunderfrom box fit to size for Ford truck allows your console to be able to go up and down, can be found a circuit city. the amp is also a mtx and its located under my driver seat. I will try to get pics of the amp but i do have a pic of the subs and box. the box you have to order to match your interior color. Mine was tan to match my old truck just got a spray paint can painted it to match my new interior, turned out pretty good.

 

so is this wiring diagram exclusive to the STX? Or does it also apply to other F150's using the same radio?

 

dunno man if its the same or not but that is the diagram to the STX that came with the Kenwood as the factory radio

 

I believe the truck side is all the same.

 

Is this so you can just buy a standard F*rd radio adapter to fit many stereos?

I ask this because if not, wouldn't you need to know specifically what each wire went to? (speakers, power, memory, dimming lead, etc).

I like the Kenwood in there, but I really want a newer unit, and put the Kenwood in my Nova probably. Since I drive this the most, the track->track seek times are bothering me in MP3 mode.

But I'm waiting for a Kenwood to come out that is sufficiently better for me to actually do it. Until then I'm just gonna replace all the stock speakers and put in an amp and a sub under the rear right seat.

 

this seems like a strange question, but it has me puzzled. which one of the wires on the STX harness is the "remote" wire for an amp? in my harness, there is no blue. by looking at the manual for the CD player, the black w/ green striped wire is in place of the blue. that didnt work someone help!

 

The remote hooks up strait to the cd player its self

 

the remote hooks up strait to the cdplayer itself

 

The first row where it says adapter/radio is the colors to most radios wires and adapters. In the radio manual it will tell what each color wire is

 

how exactly do i do that? let me go take it back out and take a look

 

The stock radio dosnt have a remote and im not sure if the kenwood that came in the STX has one either