Review on 🔌 Metra 70-5511: The Ultimate Wiring Harness for FD Amp Integration System by Jason Richardson

I bought this wiring harness to simplify the installation of a new Kenwood radio/CD player in my Ford car. Aside from a slight inconsistency in the wire color chart in the manuals and tech support not quite understanding my question, I recommend the Metra product because it matches the factory harness and is fairly well made. I was able to figure out the wire I needed to connect the amp's trigger wire. On a Ford with an external "Premium Sound" amplifier like mine, it's usually the blue/white wire on the Metra harness. Simply follow the wiring harness instructions for your radio/CD player and match the same color with the same color on the Metra wiring harness. I soldered the connectors and used heat shrink tubing to seal everything. (NOTE: Add heat shrink BEFORE soldering the connections!) The end result was an adapter harness about 8 inches long with Ford compatible connectors (2) on one end and a Kenwood connector on the other. I wrapped wires around the wiring harness because. Well, just because I hooked everything up, made sure everything worked, and then threw the Kenwood in the dash. much less soldering.