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Orange and white wire..
Wolfie:
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That'll be why you can't find the wire you're looking for. Having just consulted the book of lies, the w/o wire didn't get included in the wiring loom until 1986.
So you'll need to either find a different switched live, take one off a spare terminal on the ignition switch, or use a permanent live and just have to switch the radio on and off manually.
Remember to use appropriate fuses if you do add new wiring.
Regards
Wolfie
90sam:
So can i just not bother with it at all? will the radio work without the wire or will i have to do some wiring :? Can i just use the red, black, and red and orange wire and that'll make the radio work?? O, very confused now :cry:
Wolfie:
--- Quote from: "90sam" ---So can i just not bother with it at all? will the radio work without the wire or will i have to do some wiring :? Can i just use the red, black, and red and orange wire and that'll make the radio work?? O, very confused now :cry:
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Ok, I'm assuming that you have got yourslf a new style stereo, with a red and a yellow power supply, and a black earth.
Yellow will be permanent live (need to be so memory isn't lost when you switch engine off)
Red should be switched live so that the stereo comes on with the ignition, (but you could connect it to a permanent live and switch the stero on manually)
SO you need to find a permanent and a switched live on the car.
You don't want to connect to the "red" or "red and orange" wires already in the car as these are part of the lighting circuits and so are only live when the lights are on.
What you need to do is find a convenient wiring connector on the "BROWN" and "WHITE" wires.
Brown is unfused permanent live so add a fuse and connect your stereo's YELLOW wire to this.
White is unfused switched live so again use a fuse and connect your stereo's RED wire.
Then of course the black wire to the car's black wires and all should work.
It would be worth getting hold of a wiring diagram and studying the one for your car and the one for later cars so that you can see what should go where. Haynes manuals are fine for this and pretty cheap.
Hopefully that is all less confusing, but if you're not 100% certain either try to get a member of MC who is local to you and understands wiring to give you a hand or spend a few quid and get it done by an auto electrician. Bad wiring isn't a good thing to have in your car.
NOTE: I got the colours wrong at first. Corrected now
Regards
Wolfie
90sam:
So if i see these wires, can i just cut them and use them or are they used for something else?? I've found a plug with lots of purple wires and green ones, and was wondering what its for, and whether i can use it? I've also got the instruction manual for you all to see. I best give you just the link to the foder otherwise there'll be about 8 pictures :lol: and the red wires is the plug that i need to connect to the wires!
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/onzasam/Wiring/
Getting deesperate now may as well just go without music! And of yet i've not got a radio but will probs buy a posh new one
Kind regards
Sam
tonycougar:
Have you got an electrical tester multimeter or even just a simple 12v lamp with 2 wires on. (If not get one/make one) If you have just go fishing for a live feed with it. Doesn't matter what colour it is so long as it is switched with the ignition. Make sure its not a lighting one and,
"Robert is your mothers brother"
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