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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: walchy01 on 20 February 2010, 18:48

Title: Radio wire up connections help
Post by: walchy01 on 20 February 2010, 18:48

Hi All

Do all radio/cd players wire up the same? i am wanting to wire up my sterio in my 16v but i am no electrician, does anyone have any advice or pictures of how to connect up???

Ie red to red, brown to brown etc etc,,,, is that simple?????


Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: Radio wire up connections help
Post by: dubber36 on 21 February 2010, 21:17

If it's got standard ISO plugs, (2 rectangular plugs with 8 pins in each) it should be a case of plug and play.

You may need to join the yellow and red wire from the headunit together to give you a permenent live for the pre-sets memory.

Title: Re: Radio wire up connections help
Post by: rubjonny on 22 February 2010, 10:23

all moden stereos have the same connections, and will plug right into a MK2 just as long as no-one has butchered your wiring loom.  only thing is the live & ign live wires on the MK2 are the opposite way round on MK2, but most stereos have bullet connectors so you can swap these over. also, most mk2s from the factory didnt have an ign live feed, so you have to plug both ign live & live wires on the stereo to the live feed.