Review on 🔌 PAC AOEM-FRD24: Upgrade Your Ford, Lincoln, or Mercury Factory Radio with 24-Pin Connector Amplifier Interface by Russell Roberson

I used this addon to connect amplifiers in a 2010 F-150 and a 2011 Mustang. I made a small change which I will detail below. Firstly the product says pre 2010. I contacted PAC and they said it "should" fit 2011 so I tried it and it worked. The F-150 was terribly lacking in the audio department. This was on a 2010 FX2 with a stock head unit, no navigation, no Sony system. You have to turn the volume up more than 3/4 to hear it through the AC and if you roll down the windows you can turn the volume up and barely hear it. At this volume, the sound was horribly distorted. The factory system also lacked bass. This is not very clear in the picture, but if you imagine then there are two sets of cables in the product. One set runs straight from the wire harness that connects to the main unit to the wire harness that connects to the factory harness. These are power wires, ground wires, etc. Another set of wires goes from the side of the main unit to the RCA converter. These are your speaker cables (4 sets, FR, FL, RR, LR) and the remote turn on cable. From the converter, the same wires go back to the factory wiring harness connector. This gives you the option of keeping the factory speaker unit and then using RCA for the amplifier (front and rear). What I did was cut the wires from the converter to the wire harness to go to the factory connector. This gave me the ability to run the speaker wires from the amps back to the main unit and connect them to the converter. This allowed me to send an amplified signal to the 4 door speakers using the factory wiring instead of running 4 sets of wires to each door. I've also read that these new cars have some seat belts in the doors, which often require drilling holes that I didn't want to make. This resulted in a large bundle of wires running from the main unit to the amps (2 sets of RCAs, 4 sets of 16 gauge speaker wire and a remote turn on wire). 2010 F-150 installs used new speakers in all 4 doors (supercrew) (Kenwood KFC-P680C - $169 a pair everywhere, $99 here on Amazon!) through the head unit. All in all, this product works. Great job of including two RCA outputs and a remote cable in setups where you want to keep the factory main unit. The idea of running speaker wire back to the main unit simplifies installation as you can't run wire everywhere and just run it with RCA and a remote cable. It will also make removal very easy.