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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Simpson on 10 April 2006, 20:49

Title: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Simpson on 10 April 2006, 20:49

I am trying to sort a bodge from the previous owner of my 89 plate 8 valve, I was just which is the memory wire for the stereo? is it the yellow and white wire? and what is the blue and grey wire for on the original loom? cheers 

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Ozz on 10 April 2006, 20:54

Memory will be the blue or blue and gray, the yellow and white is most likely telophone mute or something along those lines :)

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Mr Blue on 10 April 2006, 20:59

what sterio is it?
i think its yellow for memory and blue for telephone. Cant remember as its been a while

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Ozz on 10 April 2006, 21:09

Blue and grey on the car loom is memory i'm 99% sure, and i thought most stereos used blue for memory and yellow for phone, tho i have been wrong before (and had the shocks to show for it!!!)

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: GTI EDITION (aka LTD) on 10 April 2006, 21:26

I'm sure the blue/grey (which I'm sure is infact Grey with a Blue tracer) is the dash illumination 0.5 mm .
The earth and live feed/s should be 2.5mm.

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Simpson on 10 April 2006, 23:32

cheers lads i don't know its gone then whoever had it had a lamp tester wired up to the loom??? mmm strange and all the wires have been messed with, il sort tomorrow, thanks again  :smiley:

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Ozz on 11 April 2006, 00:13

Whip out the multimeter and start testing, always the best way to go!!

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: rubjonny on 13 April 2006, 10:58

The yellow/white wire is for speed sensitive volume control I think, and blue/grey is DEFINITELY the dash illumination wire.

By 'memory' do you mean permanaent live?  If so it will be the red one :)
If you want ignition live you'll have to run one from the fusebox, or from the fan switch.  If its an early MK2 this is dead easy as on the rear of the fusebox you have 2 groups of spare spade terminals, ons side live, the other ignition live.

If its a late MK2 think about wiring up the 'key in ignition' feed, its there but hardly ever used.  The correct wire is labled up as 'S' I believe, or perhaps 'SU'.  The way I did it was to chop a plug off a scrappy car, and remove one of the wires.  I then fitted one of the wires to the empty slots in the MK2 plug & used trial & error with a multimeter till I found the key in ignition feed, then ran it to the radio using a fuse.

Title: Re: stereo wiring help!
Post by: Simpson on 13 April 2006, 23:31

cheers mate appreciate that, all sorted now i used a permanent live which i found hacked off lurking in the back of the hole then wired that up works fine now,  :smiley: