project mk2 410

[X4MGS]

Sorry but It's not rocket science - a few wires and its sorted..


If you cant wire in a stereo what are you doing with a Classic car!

[VWchapman17]

ive wired it in before.. but it doesn't turn off when you turn off the ignition.. read what people have said about permanent lives and switched lives and all sorts, but I cant find a way for it to turn off
then I realised when I turn my heater on.. you can hear it coming through my speakers......

[weazgti]

Try the cross over relay, swap it with known working one.
It cuts power to stereo whilst cranking.
Mine went and my head unit turned itself on and I lost heater and cig lighter ( if the fuse s lasted long enough)

[gazareth]

you should have a permanent live to keep your radio station settings and a live switched on and off from ignition barrel to turn unit on and off. usually yellow and red but cant remember which goes where. mine is just wired so I have to switch it on and off at head unit. soon get used to it.

[VWchapman17]

ive got a yellow and red wire going together connecting to 1 wire.. so the perm live and the switched live go into what? where is the best place to earth from the stereo wiring also?
whats the black wire also??

[gazareth]

well basically the black wire from the stereo goes to earth. the red one is a permanent live and the yellow should connect to ignition switch and power up when key turned. can you get up a clear pic off all the loose wires behind your stereo (on the car loom)?

[VWchapman17]

I also have a brown one too.. there many wires..

[gazareth]

jeez that's quite a bit of spaghetti you got there lol. I would say the 3 on the top left are (brown/earth. red/permanent live. blue and white/ignition switch live) the 8 wires your holding are for your 4 speakers but they don't look like they are going to any speakers? I would test the 3 wires on the top left just to confirm them. and check inside dash to see if there is more wires there (coming from your speakers).

[VWchapman17]

the 2 blue ones are sub(on the right, the inputs) and the red and black ones are for the other speakers in the car, for the door card speakers and parcel shelfs. the small blue one next to earth is to the sub also, but I have to put the inputs into the stereo but only 2 can go in.. so then the sub wires cant go into the stereo.. so where the brown connector thing is at the bottom I need something to connect that to the normal speakers into the red nd black cable.. but its just finding an 8 pin connector..

if you understand me..

[weazgti]

Brown plug is Iso to plug straight into head unit wires. This isn't standard cos its too old.
If you wanted you could cut the plug off head unit wires and join to factory wires its only there to make fitting easy and to make halfords staff look like pros.