I recently purchased an aftermarket radio for my 2009 ranger. On the radio there are about 15 wires and the stock radio powercord there are about 25 what should i do. The radio is a pioneer 1300mp.

 

When I put my deck in my ranger there were some wires from the deck that did not match the dash wires, I just taped over the ends and did not use them, deck works fine.

 

Just match the appropriate wires and terminate the others

 

First of all do you have the wiring kit? Don't go splicing into the factory power plug like a retard.

 

specially in an 09 practically brand new rig just spend the 5 bucks get the harness match up color to color plug it in and your done

 

I would hope he got the wiring kit

 

yeah dude, go to Walmart, for 10 dollars you can buy a wiring kit, you will buy one for ford vehicles, it plugs into your original harnesses they are labels as to where they go, then you match the the appropriate colors, if the colors on the head unit don't match the colors on the wiring kit, then just read the wires the head unit wires should be labeled as well as the wiring kit wires

 

Dont go to Walmart. go to a local car audio shop, get the one thats specific to your ranger, and do that. There are so many wires and connections in the Walmart harnesses that even if you wire them right, they still sometimes dont work. Its worth it IMO.

 

really, i never ever had a problem with mine, neither did my friend, it plugged right into the factory harness, the problem i had with my new head unit is some of the wires on the head unit were different than the ones on the wiring kit, the wires for the front were different so i picked one for right and left and got it right, had a 50/50 chance anyways, walmart probably a little cheaper, idk don't have a car audio shop aroud me to compare to though

 

go to this site and type in year make and model it will pull up which harness you need let me know cause i have a couple harnesses laying around for a ford ranger http://www.scosche.com/car-audio/products

 

I have used many wire kits from walmart and almost all worked great except on 2 vehicles, a E.B Aerostar and a Explorer XLT that had the fancy radio with the rear passenger controls. Those two I had to cut into the wires to wire in the new radio (Nightmare from hell those two were too!!) but the the ones for all the vehicles that had a basic radio/cd/tape player types worked fine. Shoot even when I had my 05 Focus, it had the 6 disc changer and the harness was direct plug and play. But a car audio shop will give you a much better chance at getting what you need.