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Richie

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 23:45

Ahhh now we are gettin somewhere ;)

You have a corsa which has a signal booster powered via the remote lead from ur headunit by the seems of things mate.


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 23:28

hmm

just been out in car to look at this again, bit harder in the dark :D

I've disconnected the remote wire to the mfd. Ran the radio station search on the head unit as i did last time and couldn't find anything :(

So thought i'd try putting a frequency in manualy and that worked fine. Doh!

Im guessing because the mfd isn't turned on for radio it doesn't power the ariel, which is why the radio search doesn't work.
Or does your search work fine?

ffs lol




Richie

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 22:15

It is really odd. Something not right there.


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 22:11

lol, yeah i understand austin/visableman

but,
disconnect wire...mfd date stays on, but radio don't work.
connect wire...mfd date turns off, radio works fine.

see what i mean?
just seems really odd.


Richie

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 20:30

Hence why i said cut the blue wire that goes to the block in the headunit loom.....


Dom

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 20:20

disconnec the remote lead (or powered arial) from the vauxhall block and wire the remote lead extention straight on to your amps. Its the remote lead (powered arial) cable that turns the MFD on ;) so i just disconnected that from the vaux block on my pioneer and it works :thumbs:


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 14:59

havn't got that option on mine :(


chris_uk

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 14:31

or just see if your new head unit has AT on it and turn it on..mine does and it now displays the date always.

(sony CDXM800)


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 13:49

i see theres a convertor thing for the kenwood units to show the text on the mfd. hmm but 60odd quid though :boggle:


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 13:45

i have a blue/white wire which turns the amp on/off. not much point cutting that :)

Or are you talking about a blue wire that goes up to the mfd?


Richie

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 12:58

In the loom for the headunit (not on the block), there is a blue wire. Cut that instead.


JpA

posted on 9th Feb 04 at 12:35


quote:

If you're using an after-market (i.e Non Vauxhall) head unit, you'll notice the centre section of the MFD is usualy blank. This can be changed to always display the date.

Firstly look at the original Vauxhall stereo loom. You'll see the standard ISO type blocks, and the top section holds the additional Vauxhall connections.

In this block is a grey wire with a red stripe. Cut this and the date should appear on the MFD.



When i cut this wire the date stays on the mfd so problem sorted I thought. But now the radio don't work lol.

I tried while the radio was on to connect the cut wire back up and eveytime i made a contact the radio would work.

Is the supposed to happen, or is it something todo with my headunit?
I got a kenwood z838w in a corsa b.
ideas anyone?