Hello!

 

I bought some new rear speakers and a CD player at the weekend and need a bit of help :)

 

The speakers went in fine - Pyle (?!) 6x4s and are looooads better than the standard ones I took out - one of which wasn't connected anyway :rolleyes: :confused: . Read loads of posts about bypassing the rear speaker amp etc and redrilling brackets - none of which seemed to apply :confused: . They fitted perfectly and worked fine with the old stereo :) .

 

Thats all fine, but I started on the CD Player (Panasonic CQ-RDP003N incidentally) and it's obviously got a more modern connector with bundle of colourful wires which doesn't simply slot into the connector sticking out of my dash. Luckily the old stereo has a wiring diagram - see attached scan, now do I simply bridge the appropriate connections or is there an adaptor available? (I presume my Zed's connector is the stock 1990 J-Spec?) The wires dont seem to be the same group of colours either.

 

Also in the bottom left of the diag - the 3 pin connector - I can tell the top one is earth but which is "Acc" and which is "Battery" on the bottom two? And what is the symbol that looks like a light on the bottom right one? Dont remember that one from A Level Physics... Other than those two I can match all the other pins to my new one.

 

One last question :) - assuming I'll have to buy a bundle of colourful wires to bridge the connectors - is it possible to buy a pack with them all in? Two wires (Acc and Battery IIRC, yellow and black) are different to the others.

 

Sorry for going on but I'm a complete novice with ICE :)

 

Cheers fellows :D

 

Pete

Good luck!

 

If there's an audio expert out there you may get some help, but this might as well be in Japanese for me.

 

I'd be interested to hear how it works out though!

Your new stereo most probably uses an ISO connector, so all you need is the NIssan to ISO cable, try this...

 

Nissan ISO adaptor cable

 

ordered one from them a little while back.

 

HTH

 

James

hia bud, i fitted a new kenwood head unit and graphic equaliser and new amplifiers in the boot so i have some idea what you r on about, what i did is go to halfords to get an adaptor from your zx straight into the back of your panasonic!! ( i found this in my zed file for ya pc-587 halfords code 957324 it was about 12 quid

 

something else you might not have noticed but the ariel connection in your z has 2 prongs!!!

 

not a problem go to halfords ang order ( unless its in stock )

an adaptor from the z to the standard ariel connection!!

 

and no i dont work in halfords LOL!!!

Cheers folks, maybe my dash wont be all over the drivers seat for as long as I first thought :D .

 

James - Hmm their connector's pin configuration looks slightly different:

- - - - o - - o

- - - - o - - o

 

Whereas mine looks like:

- - - oo o - -

- - - - - o - -

 

if you see what I mean :) But I've emailled them with my - and o pictures (very proud of them too :cool: ) to see if they can help - cheers mate!

 

FASTREDZ (I've got one of those! :D ) - I'll go into Halfords armed with this info - much apprciated! Now stop gazing through your Zed file and depressing yourself at all the money spent on it :D ;) . Thanks again :)

 

Pete

The Kenwood people got back to me and said I'd have to wire in unterminated connectors, which is what I've bought today :)

 

Seems I have some sort of non-standard configuration :confused:

 

A soldering iron and my sketchy diagram will hopefully do it!

 

Cheers

 

Pete