stereo not coming on!

[twistysnovagte]

hi,recenetly bought a van of the bosses dad,no stereo has thieving scum had robbed it,so ive been on th front trying to fit a kenwood unit i have spare,ive started by putting the black(neg) wire on first then the red(live)which also has a small fuse on the along the wire,this(fuse)was bust so ive just popped down to halfords for some new ones tried that,and still doesnt come on??????
also ive connected all the other wire's 2 purple,2 green, two lots of speaker wires!i can only put it down to the stereo not working but this is new out the box!?
help is much appreiciated(i need music to drown the sound of the diesel engine:D)
andy

[twistysnovagte]

right ive now tried the red to the yellow on the stereo and its now making a noise(as if it loading a cd or something?) for around 5 seconds then doing nothing(the display doesnt light up)ive tried them all in different ports but nothing only the noise as said.
help!

spare's!!!???

[meritlover]

you will need the red and the yellow connected

one is a permanent live, the other is the switched live.

[Plug]

does the cd player work?? may sound silly but

[twistysnovagte]

ive connected the red to the yellow which still works the "cd"player,but there is no display and no sound,im thinking with the stereo being in the shed for nearly 8 month,it could of gained condensation etc,im saying this as ive just used my original cassete player out the nova which has been in the wardrobe upstair's for 4 year's and works, display, sound everything!??.would you agree its time for the hammer!

[brainsnova]

if its a kenwood mask i think there is a break in the flat ribbon that joins the face back plate to the stereo.

[twistysnovagte]

well ive been searching ebay and there's quite a few nice one's on there for very little mone,y so im probaly going to go for one of these.

[Dave.]

nip down to our place andy when you can, ill sort you one out

[twistysnovagte]

cheer's davey boy!ive just got in now and while ive been out one of the lads has given me a sony player so ill try that if that dont workill nip down anyhows i got the van now for getting the larger nova parts out the scrappy

[Spudly]

Silly question but youve pressed the source button on the front havent you as some will come on but wont power up untill the button is pressed?