PLEASE can someone help

[yabbie]

I cant get my stero to work as i said before the last owner of this car cut all the wiring. now iv tried and tried and failed aswell as frying an alpine headunit. I have now got a kenwood one but when i wired it up i can only get the cd to eject but there is no lights or power whats wrong this is what i have so far

red/white= to red on my stereo
brown(really thick)- to black on my stero
brown/red= to yellow on my stereo
blue/white= ?
blue/white= ? thibk this is the amp remote ?

my stereo has they colours
black which is thick
yellow which is thick
red which is thick
blue/white x 2

someone please shed some light thanks

[garfayliu]

hi yabbie, do you have a multi meter? the mk3 has standard connectors.

IIRC, thick brown=gnd (0V), red=ign live, yellow/black=12V live, blue=antenna/amp, brown=memory. Check this out to be sure:

[rubjonny]

On the VW loom brown/red from memory is 'key in ignition' live on a MK3, so that needs to go to the red wire on the stereo, and the red wire from the VW loom is permanent live and needs to go to the yellow wire on the stereo.
Or the other way round, it depends what the yellow & red wires do on your stereo.  I'm 80% sure yellow = live & red = ign live on a std stereo ISO connector...

Invest in a multimeter, can get em for less than £5 from ebay!

[yabbie]

ok thanks for that i shall give it a try. Think i might just have to get one ive used a few fuses now about 4 i think lol

so its brown/red=red and then red=yellow

[yabbie]

  just tried it brown/red to red on stereo and red/white=yellow on stereo  and did nothing so i done them brown/red=yellow and the red/white to red and it will let me get a cd out but still no light am i wrong in saying that the blue and grey from the car give the lighting ? but which one would it need to connect to on the stereo ?  :embarassed: thanks again

[rubjonny]

blue/grey is the feed for the dash lights, generally modern stereos dont use this, but feel free to wire it up as above.  hat you need now is a multimeter so you can check which wires are getting voltage!

I've heard that sometimes the MK3 ign switch can become worn so that the key in ignition feed stops working...

[yabbie]

mmm well before it had that kenwood head unit it had a working alpine one that worked good but i have since fried that one    so all i have to do is find one thats got some sort of  voltage and that might sole the problem . thanks again shall get hold of a multimeter tomorro