oops, i thinkive screwed my car up

[gazasaurus]

How do.

Anyway I have a GTi turbo, only it had this poxy Pioneer head unit in it, so since I'm off work and have nothing to do I thought I'd get a nice iPod and bluetooth one, I got an Apline IDA-X001 with the bluetooth module.

I probably should have just paid for it installing but like i said, Ive got nowt to do an am / was bored.

I hooked it all up and tested it before slotting the head unit back in to the mounting bracket, all working fine, but being the clumsy idiot I am, when pushing it back in the red wire on the power connector got snagged and chopped, shorting and I presumed blowing a fuse.  I changed the fuse on the cable and fuse 42 in the fuse panel but, nothing.  I thought I'd ballsed up the head unit until I tried plugging the old Pioneer back in, and no power to that either.  All the other electrics are ok.

Are there any other fuses along the circuit I should be looking at?  My bumbling just adds insult to the injury of some asswipe scratching it up on Christmas day.

[monzablue16v]

It might be fed from some random wire somewhere it'll be a case of pulling every fuse and checking it 'til you find the blown one

[Ruji]

perhaps you burnt out the wire on the pioneer loom that it comes with??
since u had a pioneer unit in there b4...both the leads may b similar so have u tried it with both looms??
if thats not the case...u musta blown mor than one fuse..use a multimeter to trace back on the loom to see where the red n yellow wires wud go bak into the car wiring loom and use a multimeter to see which your gettin no power from..test in both cases with ignition on so u know which is LIVE n which is not!
your are most likely gettin no power from one v those wires so u have most likely missed out a broken fuse sumwhere so do as the previous post suggests and jus check all your fuses.
radio fuses are often linked to other electrics in the car such as on board clock display and interior lights and sumtimes cigi lighter.

b sure to chek both internal cabin area fusebox as well as the engine bay fuse box aswell....you may find there is a radio related fuse in the engine bay in some cars too!

see how u get on with that!

[gazasaurus]

cheers for the advice from both.

Im gonna change every fuse for brand new tomorrow as I noticed a couple are missing, including for the heated seats, didn't even know there was one in the engine bay.  Hope it is just a fuse not any wiring as I cut my hands up enough messing in the din slot feeding the USB through to the glove box, don't need more fiddly crap with my daft gorilla mits.

[Ruji]

wel b careful with that as some are left empty deliberately.
perhaps you dont have heated seats!!? as they use the same fuseboxes. u'l see sum empty slots that dont actually have fuse contact holders inside em neway so if u try puttin a fuse it..it wont b connecting anythin n jus fall rite out!

jus chek those that are already in there! as it was all fine at one point so no need to go adding unecessary fuses in areas where not required!

goodluck with that

[gazasaurus]

 :smiley:Wooooooooooooo!

Got it working, was some random 25 amp fuse in the end.

I'm pretty relieved, thought I'd shafted the HU up.

Cheers!

[craig-m3]

you gonna have a nice job to do behind the dash board the stereo wires got to a harness theres a diode there on the red wire change this other option get a scotch lock and get the power lead that comes out the back of your ignition unit then scotch a new piece of wire prefebly the same thickness or close to it run it through the dashoard all your doing then is bypassing the wire that already comes of the ignition unit but without the diode they put the diode in there for the original stereo as most original stereos only have a outside fuse they dont have a inside the stereo fuse so the diode blows rather than the stereo if you need any help doing this giz a ring and ill talk you through it or draw you a diagram hope you sort it.

[craig-m3]

pm me for my number

[Heyho]

But he's already said that he's fixed it!

Scotch-locks - I like your style.

[craig-m3]

yep scotch locks for novices if i had said get the heat shrink out i might start confusing people lol