Factory Mini Disc player

[Shoeboy]

Ok, I have a shot at a Factory MiniDisc player that was a very rare option in the 1994 Mustang. There were only about 100 of them made, and they were only used for company vehicles. What I need to know is how different is the wiring of a 1989 Rangers deck compaired to a 1994 Mustangs deck. I know Dodge has the same wiring connectors on their decks since at least 1996 until now. I need to know if Ford was the same way from 1989 to 1994. I did post this in the electrical section, I just don't have much time on the bidding before it ends, and this section gets a lot more traffic.

In other news, Ford did have a rare optional MiniDisc player option for the 1994 Mustangs for company vehicles. There were about 100 of them made. Ford was the first (and only that I know about) American auto manufacture to have made and put a factory MiniDisc player into a production vehicle. The unit was made by Sony appairently.

 

[Southern3.0]

89 to 94 should be interchange able, I kno I put the stereo out of my 95 Taurus into my 91 Ranger. But If the stang had some fancy Deck it would probably have an external amp also and that might change the wiring.

 

[Sunk]

Just curious, why do you want a MiniDisc player? They seem pretty obsolete these days..

 

[Shoeboy]

Because I have a lot of MiniDisc's lying around and I don't like most of my friends music, so putting one of them into the truck solves both my problems. Also for $100 it seems like a very unusual way to make a vehicle just that much more different.

 

[Sunk]

Ahh. Cool, whatever you want Im not knocking on you. Im still discovering what can be done with an MP3 CD, its pretty sweet.

 

[Shoeboy]

Well, My friend who went bidding for me ended up getting it. Here's a link for those of you who are interested. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-Mustang-limited-addition-add-on-mini-disc-player_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ80741QQihZ016QQitemZ260174024906QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

[kunar]

thats kinda neat, unique for sure, let us know how it works out for you.

 

[Shoeboy]

Well, I got the mini disc deck yesterday, and the connections are no where near close. So now I got on the great search for the male connector. I stopped in at a few stereo shops on my way home, and the best and probably most accurate answer I got was *looks at me, looks at deck, looks back at me, looks back at the deck, looks at me again* "You're kidding, right?". I will try Autotemp tomorrow, as they are the main Ford distributor in Calgary, if they don't have it, no one will, and then it will back to E(vil)-bay.

And some pictures, sorry, they were taken at night

The factory that came from my truck is on the top

 

[Jspafford]

Those plugs look like the newer style. Might want to drop in a junkyard and find a mustang and pull the wires out of it. Hell you have the deck, whats another few bucks on a harness. Wires should be easy to match.

 

[Shoeboy]

I'm going to have to stop by Pick'N'Pull in the next few weeks, but If i can find them new, that would be nice. Pick'N'Pull really doesn't have much newer stuff, its starting to get everything early-mid 90's, and early 2000 GM cars . Plus when ever I go to P'N'P I always end up with much more then I went for, not that its a bad thing or anything.

 

[AllanD]

Actually that "deck" isn't a deck at all.

It is JUST the mini disc player and it's an "add on" like the single disc add on deck that was available for Mustangs and Taurus/Sable...

So getting "Cables" to hook it to your truck simply don't exsist.

It will however connect with a relatively common power and signal cable
that can be found for the single disc CD player add on which will allow it to be connected to any premium sound head unit.

Though I'll warn you you'll also need an amplifier, because the premium sound deck that player will attach to doesn't have an inboard amplifier.

Lastly, you'll specifically need a '93-up single DIN premium sound head unit.(this unit is distinguished by it's TOTAL LACK of mechanical controls and it's "Smile shaped" volume control.
The line level inputs are different on the '93 up than on the '87-92 "pop out knob"
premium sound head unit.


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[Shoeboy]

AllanD, I expected to hear that eventually, thank you for saving me some time. I don't follow much about stereo's and such. I'll just stick with my CD player now, but my future plan with it was moving my CD player down to where my ashtray is and created and lid out of the face of the ashtray to hide the CD player. If I get an after market deck with built in amp, and wire it into that, would that work, or am I just chasing a ghost of an idea? I really want to keep a factory look but have it be completely customed, that and I also just bought the thing for $100 without much information on it, I might have to find the factory radio for it to work, and that would suck monkey balls without a CD player, but at least I get mini disc, it wouldn't be all bad.