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Superlite Ltd.

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27th Jun 07 at 18:44

Fitted some blue LEDs in the MFD...now it seems to stay on even when the ignition is off?

Played around with the bulbs, still stays on.

ideas?

...also why does having the CD player on make the date disapear?

JoeyB

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27th Jun 07 at 18:49

This happened to mine fella. They have flakey connectors where they plug in and mine has come away from the circuit board before. Try checking your connector.

Also, the date disappears because with the standard head unit it would normally display track/radio info.

As you have an aftermarket CD HU it has nothing to display...

[Edited on 27-06-2007 by NotMyCorsa]

pdwhelan

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27th Jun 07 at 18:51

Some wire has to be cut behind the head unit iirc to get the date display back!

AndyW

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27th Jun 07 at 19:07

you have to cut and swap round the ignition live, and the permant live i think.

AndyW

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27th Jun 07 at 19:07

red n yellow wires i think they are

Jake

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27th Jun 07 at 19:10

that's to stop the player from wiping the setting when the ignition off. Cutting the blue wire keeps the date showing.

pdwhelan

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27th Jun 07 at 19:10

Yes red and yellow wires. but he would of had this problem before swapping the bulbs

Kurt

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27th Jun 07 at 19:17

its like not my corsa said, the connections are crap on the mfd so when you unplug it (takes a bit of effort) they get knackered

pdwhelan

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27th Jun 07 at 19:19

Just to confirm, its 100% the blue wire to cut to get the date display back while aftermarket HU installed. I have just cut mine and it works fine

Superlite Ltd.

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27th Jun 07 at 19:44

Brilliant

thankyou guys

Superlite Ltd.

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28th Jun 07 at 12:39

...pins seem to be ok

maybe a tiny little crack in the solder on the far right top pin. Would this make it stay on?

AndyW

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29th Jun 07 at 15:13

haha oh yea i had reasd the second post and kinda went off track

sorry man.

vx.racing

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29th Jun 07 at 15:18

quote:
Originally posted by pdwhelan
Just to confirm, its 100% the blue wire to cut to get the date display back while aftermarket HU installed. I have just cut mine and it works fine

Good tip this.

Superlite Ltd.

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29th Jun 07 at 15:32

With the blue wire cut on mine it still does it

csweatherston

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29th Jun 07 at 15:58

older ones are blue....... newer ones are brown with a blue trace.

u need to cut it on the cars original harness (not the one supplied with your HU)

Superlite Ltd.

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29th Jun 07 at 17:21

quote:
Originally posted by csweatherston
older ones are blue....... newer ones are brown with a blue trace.

u need to cut it on the cars original harness (not the one supplied with your HU)

brown and blue wire....ahh

will cut that bugger later, thanks

Olsrey

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30th Jun 07 at 01:30

Dont need to cut a wire to get the date and time back, my Sony head unit had a feature which i could turn off AF i think and the mfd date stayed on

Jenko_Sport

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30th Jun 07 at 09:43

quote:
Originally posted by Olsrey
Dont need to cut a wire to get the date and time back, my Sony head unit had a feature which i could turn off AF i think and the mfd date stayed on

Same with mine

Fro

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30th Jun 07 at 09:59

Will try this with my head unit when i get it back

PaulW

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30th Jun 07 at 10:41

the blue / brown-blue wire also supplies a 12v feed to the amplifier to the aerial, so radio reception does suffer slightly when you cut the wire.

Superlite Ltd.

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30th Jun 07 at 10:43