Head Unit Illumination Issues!! End of tether PLEASE help!

[RaKeR]

Hi guys,

This is the second part of an on-going saga!

I manged to get my Blaupunkt Essen to work in my Mark 2 Jetta after buying an ISO adapter - thanks to a couple of you guys's suggestions!

The thing is, now the illumination won't go out on the headunit at all - whether the key is in the ignition or not.

I have just noticed that the exisiting car loom is like this:

live         not used          power antenae [i think - yellow and white?]               
earth     illumination       not used

and the new iso adapter feeds an ignition live line AND a constant 12v battery live into the live on the loom?  i have also [stupidly!] cut the illumination wire to see if that did anything.  it did not.

Please, if you can, help me.  I'm getting remarkably down about this!   

Cheers,

Si.

[RaKeR]

Can anyone help me at all?!

 

[monzablue16v]

The yellow/white or orange wire is the illumination wire on an iso block have you wired that to a permanent live by any chance? the blue white is your electric ariel wire. hth

[HARDCOR3]

a lot of stereo's also have built on bullit connections on both yellow and red wires, just unplug connections and plug the red into the yellow, n yellow into red, this shud change the ign live and permo live around, thus sorting it out....

[RaKeR]

Monza - I have severed the orange illumination wire on the iso adpater - so it can't be that.
Hardcor3 - this AUotleads loom doesn't have th option to do this unfortunately.

So you're saying that the blue/white on the car iso is switched eh?

[monzablue16v]

Blue white puts out 12v when the HU is on, try swapping the red and yellow wires over on the plug if you can like Hardcor3 says that may well sort it out. So red to ign live and yellow to battery if both are into one feed the hu will always be on and Blaupunkts do tend to stay lit up when off, you might need to run an ignition wire to it as they aren't always there on the existing loom

might help as well

[HARDCOR3]

basically you need to swap the live and ignition live around, or you have both the ignition live and live, to the same permenent live, thus resulting in the stereo not turning off right, i have both my lives on my caddy wired to a permenant live as it has no ign live there, so i have to take the face off the stereo all the time, or that would stay illuminated all the time.....

[RaKeR]

Right-o.  I can't swap any wires as the iso won't allow - can't pull them out.

After using the adapter loom -

The permament battery live on the car iso matches up with the switched live on the headunit.
The earth is fine and matches up with earth on the head unit.
The blue and white [switched ignition live??] on the car iso matched up with the now severed illumination on the headunit.

In addition to this, the manual explains that the permanent live from the battery should be in position slot 4 on the iso plug going into the headunit.  there is a yellow wire split from the red wire on the headunit loom going to this position - so it appears then that I only have a battery live going from car iso loom to both iginition and permanent on the head unit!

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

The adapter loom has fecked things right up here hasn't it?

[monzablue16v]

Yup sounds like it! you could buy a multimeter and a crimping set take it back to the basic car loom then cut and join the wires onto the iso block like it says in that pic and you should be away

[RaKeR]

I'm going to Argos right-now to pick up an electricians tool kit!   

We'll see if things start to take a turn for the better then won't we eh?!  EH??!?!  EEEHHH?!?!  Bwah hah hah!!!   

Sorry.  A little carried away.   

Thanks for your help mate - I'll keep you posted!