radio never stores stations

[turbojolt]

every time i turn off the van i have to retune the radio and the stations never stay stored! its bloody annoying :mad:


any ideas what it might be, i presume its just wired up wrong but wouldnt know how to tell tbh

[brainsnova]

If its a aftermarket stereo then the leads will need swapped

[turbojolt]

its got a old Sony cd player so what leads need changing?

[chrisd1986]

the positive (red) and the memorey (yellow) wires need to be swaped if your using a none butchered sony wiring harness

[Dan Stanley]

In the ISO lead that goes between your headunit and the car loom, they'll be a red and a yellow wire (just like Chris said) and they'll probably have bullet connectors in line, so unplug them and connect red with yellow and yellow with red. Job jobbed.

[conad]

what they said ^^^

[turbojolt]

.good stuff, cheers lads will have a play tomorrow and let you know how it goes

[chrisd1986]

hopfully not bang lol

[turbojolt]

hopfully not bang lol

wouldn't be the first time lol

[chrisd1986]

i feel your pain after the first one i done for my mum when i was 13 and i said i could do it ive seen it bin done loads of times and i poped the h/u on her lol

[turbojolt]

so ive managed to turn a small annoying problem into a bigger one, the cd player dosnt work atall now lol


this is what i found when i yanked it out

http://i.imgur.com/aHujfZj.jpg

i swapped over the wires i was told to and it didnt work, so i changed them back and now its not working, so i decided to change wires about abit and now its dead as a dodo :tard:

the yellow wire (memory?) is wired up to a earth wire, that cant be right can it :tard:

i think my best bet is to get the wire snips out and go get a orignal cd player connecter and wire that back in to the vans loom that way i can just use a adaptor to the sony cd player, thourghts?


also found this tucked under the dash :confused:

http://i.imgur.com/CVcT4WJ.jpg


i fooking hate wiring!

[chrisd1986]

yellow is memory and shouldnt be connected to a earth, you can put the red and yellow together and just take the face off it wont flatten the battery thats how i.done it in my nova. i would start snipping tbh its easyer and its only a van. if you lived closer i would of done it for you

[turbojolt]

this one dosnt have a face off, it has a flip down front so you can put the cd in the back


ive fitted a couple cd players before but they all had a wiring diagram on the case so it was easier

[chrisd1986]

can you hold the off button and the screen goes off?

[chrisd1986]

check the fuse in the hu and the van incase its blown

[turbojolt]

ahha just found this on the interweb

Yellow: constant power
Red: switched power
Black: ground
Orange/white: illumination
Blue/white: amp remote turn-on
Blue: power antenna

Speakers: solid color is positive, black stripe is negative
Left front: white
Right front: gray
Left rear: green
Right rear: violet

[turbojolt]

and the transit one

Power side
Orange/Yellow - permant live
Yellow/Green - Ignition (switched) Live
Black/Orange - Alarm
Orange/Black - Interior Illumination
Black - Earth
Black - Earth

Speaker side
Brown/Yellow - LH Front
White/Blck - LH Front
White/Red - RH Front
Brown/Red - RH Front
White/Violet - LH Rear
Brown/White - LH Rear
White - RH Rear
Brown - RH Rear.

[chrisd1986]

all hail to google lol

[turbojolt]

will see if it works now lol

[turbojolt]

still nothing, and both fuses are still good :confused:

[chrisd1986]

have you got a test light? old age could be playing its part and its dead, ive got an old kenwood if your stuck

[Stuart]

Extra connectors under the dash is normal... making one harness for all vehicles is cheaper than making many different ones for less vehicles

[turbojolt]

ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa its working i was looking at the wrong fuse :roll:

so now the alarm is working, the interior lights are working and the radio is remembering lol, next problem to solve is the seat lifting up where the seat rail has rotted away

[chrisd1986]

its always a fuse, you can thank me later lol

[turbojolt]

cheers, sounds alot better now that both front speakers work, why someone would only plug in one speaker is beyond me

[chrisd1986]

pure lazyness either that or they only ever listened to radio 2 lol

[turbojolt]

i really need to stop looking to hard at this old van, found some old cut up wires zip tied to the steering rack??? fook only knows what there for

[Andy]

i really need to stop looking to hard at this old van, found some old cut up wires zip tied to the steering rack??? fook only knows what there for

If it fukking starts then ignorance is bliss

[chrisd1986]

he must of bought it off a pikey, did he offer you any dags lol

[Andy]

I once got given a petrol transit in return for moving it off somebodies drive back in the day when it was £30 a tonne for cars,drove it around as it was fine,then i found a rover biscuit tin piece in place of the vin and got rid quickly lol

[turbojolt]

im happy now, just need to sort the seat then i will ignore everything else lol

[chrisd1986]

haha sounds like half the £20 cars i bought and sold as i teenager, if only i had somwere to put them i could of retired on the weigh in at scrap prices these days lol

[jimbob-mcgrew]

had this prob on quite a few cars that had thier wiring molestered. i always just twist the 2 head unit wires together and give them a permanent live (route a fresh one if you need to).

never had a prob like that, and you can listen to the stereo when the keys not in.
just remember to turn the stereo off before you get out the car.

[brainsnova]

If you don't wrap them tight then electrical fire lol

[mowgli]

my step brother had a golf mk1 that we used to prune its wires regularly... i'd swear the wiring loom on it actually grew

[Jack]

had this prob on quite a few cars that had thier wiring molestered. i always just twist the 2 head unit wires together
Irony. lol

[jimbob-mcgrew]

Irony. lol
best way ive found to do it jack - 5 min job, permanent install, no fannying about !

obviously use decent connectors or solder, don't just lay the wires ontop of each other.

[L14MNP]

Irony. lol

Beat me to it! lol

**** twisting wires together too. Side by side soldering or decent connectors for me.

[Stuart]

solder


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY

[L14MNP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY

In an OEM sense, crimps are the preferred soloution, but I wonder how much of that is down to time constraints?

Any joint I have soldered, has never caused me future issues.
I suppose a soldered joint doesn't have the longevity of a crimped one, but in a real world scenario (additions to our own cars), I am yet to see it make a difference.

[turbojolt]

I twisted them and then used shrink wrap, works fine always has and always will