Will I need a specialty wire harness that will make it compatible with a 1988 F150 truck?
354500
The harness it comes with is generic. Not compatible directly without splicing, but can be made to work that way.
354501
It comes with a wire harness but I just soldered the wires onto my existing wires that were the same color and it worked perfectly.
354502
Yes, The radio will come with a wire harness that will plug into the radio on one end and on the other end it will be the bare wires that you will have to solder to a coupler that fits your model vehicle.
2201242
Rose, your best bet is to call Metra and ask them(or whoever makes the harness). Wiring harnesses can be very specific to each vehicle. I called them just to make sure and both installs went flawlessly because I had all the right parts. Hope this helps.
1002747
Yes. But if your not familiar with the wiring on your truck, I recommend having a professional wire it up. To much electronics in todays vehicles.
1681279
There is a wiring harness 51515 from curt but you will need to splice it into your trucks wiring you can use something like this to do that Solderless Wire Quick Splice Connector just copy that into the search on amazon or get it at the parts store they work pretty good.
1980414
That unit is for 3valve V8's. They started in 05 for the F150. All you need is 9/16" sparkplug socket. I recommend a set that is swivel and fixed mount. I am going to be at his office at 8:15AM. I should be in before 930. I can answer any other details in the AM. Sorry for so late on a Sunday night. I just wanted to make sure I told you what I knew as soon as I knew it.
432280
It depends on the pigtail connector. Make sure you order the one for your truck model. The harness on the controller requires an adapter cable.
1884406
Ocsparky is right. Metra or Scosche will make a wiring harness that you definitely want to use in order to keep all your factory wiring intact. The wiring harness actually gets wired to the harness that comes with the JVC headunit and generally, the wires you splice together between the two harnesses will have matching colors and, most likely, text showing the function of each wire. You would want "Metra TurboWires 71-2003-1 Wiring Harness" for your truck.
1233294
My F-150 is a 2009, but it was pre-wired with factory pigtail to plug to when I located it per owners manual.
1483152
Your going to need a harness no matter what, basically that harness plugs up to your original radio wire harness
1054865
I am not sure what you have got to do is research it .Before I ordered it for my truck I did a lot of research you could look on the back of the radio and see it has one or two plugs and what they look like the wires might but all you have to do make sure the go to the right pin .I hope that I have helped you.
432281
it's not so much an issue of fitting as much as making sure you get the right wiring harness for your truck which is normally sold separate from this unit. So just do a search for your trucks harness. You can even go to the manufacturers website and look up the right harness model number then search for it on Amazon. Great unit you'll love it.
313403
Good Morning,This will come with basic wiring but nit vehicle specific wiring harnesses.Thank you.
497487
Mine included the wiring harness for an F150. I am not sure if it is the same wiring harness for a 350. It probably is though
1066681
Not sure. I have a ford ranger I didn't take any chances so I bought the wiring harness
2213153
I did not receive a wiring harness. I am not sure if you can run wires through the housing of the hitch.
2083738
Yes will need to buy a wiring harness if your vehicle does not already have one, no wire harness is included with the hitch. Many larger vehicles will have a wiring harness or be designed to easily accept a wiring harness.
1492651
You have to pop the blank out to see if there is a 8 wire harness behind it. If there is the 8 wire harness, it's plug and play, it worked great on my 2012 tundra grade