put my cd player in the car but to get it to work had to swap the illumination pin and power pin, now the stereo turns on, but then if you turn the headlights on, the stereo turns off? and then turns back on again when you turn the HL off.

 

now as much as i like the idea of a dash mounted remote, im not to keen on the idea of singing when it gets dark.

Ideally it needs the permanent 12v and a switched 12v but not from the headlights lol.

It should have both on the existing wiring.

Ideally it needs the permanent 12v and a switched 12v but not from the headlights lol.

It should have both on the existing wiring.

 

well it has the block connector, buuut the wires for live and illumination didn't match up, there is a live for the stereo and car connection, but no illumination circuit on the car side? if that makes any sense, got a feeling that's the problem.

Dont know if this is any help

 

ah i see where my problem is, ill give it a go with my old stereo first as its doing the same on that but i dont care if that goes pop on me lol

 

thanks bud

sounds like your earthing through your lighting system.hence the reason its working with the lights off.and not when on...id be carefull as youll pop fuses and stereos...

sounds like your earthing through your lighting system.hence the reason its working with the lights off.and not when on...id be carefull as youll pop fuses and stereos...

 

Well the last stereo i took out worked fine. but it was a jumble of cables back there, until i dug out the connector for the stereo. and realised that the one that came with the car was indeed plugged into it. rather than being spliced onto the wires. so really cant work out where it went wrong when i plugged my CD player in.

 

Only one that wasn't getting a feed was the +12v perm. so i swapped it around on the stereo side of the connector. to meet up with it. ever thing else looked fine. part from i then had a redundant illumination pin on the stereo side.

 

Looking at the picture, looks like Ive managed to plug the +12v perm into the switched 12v instead. will be giving it a go once i can get down to the car.

 

its already printed off and waiting to come down with me so i can sort it out.

 

But as stated. ill use my old one for testing purposes. and I'm not afraid of the fuse box. already had it out of the car to sort out a dead A/C pod, that now works :D