Any good with stereos?

[Jimmy No Hands]

I am useless when it comes to this, I've got a stereo less Porsche 924 and an old stereo from what I think was an older Volvo. Basically I want to know what I need or if its even possible to get this:




To work with this;






Talk to me like I'm dumb.

Thanks.

[Athlon]

No, you need to lose the plug on the car and hard wire it, it is an old set so I am struggling to remember but the four terminals on the radio with dots are speaker out, the two large conectors are ign live and ground, one of the small ones is 12v battery, one electric aerial, one dim for the lights poss a 12v out for an amp, it looks like a Blaupunkt so the config will be online somewhere.

[Jimmy No Hands]

Blimey. Probably just aswell to try source a more suitable stereo then. It is indeed a Blaupunkt, un sure on model. Thanks for the help.

[ch427]

Buy a modern head unit, it will plug straight in. A reasonable one can be had for £50 new, give ebay a try if you want second hand.

[Mr2Mike]

Athlon said:

No, you need to lose the plug on the car and hard wire it,

Cutting plugs off looms is the first resort of the clueless bodger.

The solution is an ISO Adapter that simply plugs into the car loom and into the back of the head unit. No cutting or bodging required.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Thursday 11th July 15:26

[Jimmy No Hands]

Thank you Mike that's perfect. Ill get one ordered.

[Athlon]

Mr2Mike said:

Cutting plugs off looms is the first resort of the clueless bodger.

The solution is an ISO Adapter that simply plugs into the car loom and into the back of the head unit. No cutting or bodging required.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Thursday 11th July 15:26

That car never had an ISO adapter in the first place, it would have been wired for a Blaupunkt set up originally, take another look at the pic and you will see that plug is already an adaptor so you are suggesting getting an adaptor to plug onto an adaptor that is wired (not very well by the pics) into the original loom.

So make sure you know what you are talking about before calling me a clueless bodger, btw I have been wiring these for 30 years or more and worked on these cars when they were new.

[Jimmy No Hands]

So somebody at some point has altered the loom to put a modern stereo in? Makes sense really.

[japzap]

Jimmy No Hands said:

So somebody at some point has altered the loom to put a modern stereo in? Makes sense really.

By the looks of those red inline butt splices, yes.

[japzap]

You have 3 options really;

-Use another adaptor to plug into the existing adaptor
-Buy a head unit compatible with the adaptor plug already there
-Remove the adaptor that has been hard wired to the original loom and re-wire the original loom, connecting the original loom to an adaptor that would fit your current head unit.

From what I can see of the picture the adaptor connections to the original loom don't look all that great. I would probably want to re-do them either way. Don't listen to anyone who says you can't splice cables on a head unit install. I have installed a fair few in my time (not only in cars) and whilst splicing is not the best option, sometimes it is the only option.

[Jimmy No Hands]

Thank you all for the help.

[Athlon]

Jimmy No Hands said:

So somebody at some point has altered the loom to put a modern stereo in? Makes sense really.

Yes they have, now by all means take the word of a somewhat rude software engineer over a tech but if you buy another adaptor you are asking for trouble.

The four little connectors at the top of your 'new' set are speaker outs and the plugs are available easily, you just need to join them to the original loom, you can use connectors or solder, then it is a case of spotting the orinal wiring from the car, if you are lucky the adaptor loom may still have the tags like the speaker one in your pic, if not you just need a test light to find them, you really only need three for the set to work, ground, 12v permenant and 12v switched, ground on your car is brown, I can't just remember the others enough to allow me to post, the adaptor loom will have a red and a yellow, red 'should' be swithched live and yellow 'should' be permenant, they can be switched and you will knbow if you are correct if the set holds it's memory.

Good luck and post a pic of the car, I liked working on them, has it got the checked seats?!

[Jimmy No Hands]

I'm afraid no checkered interior, but someone has replaced the seat inserts with a white and pink monstrosity. It's actually been professionally done and it grows on you. Unfortunately no interior pictures on me, but its definitely an 80's thing..

[Athlon]

Very nice sir.

[japzap]

Athlon said:

Very nice sir.

Indeed! Iv got a thing for old Porsches and that looks lovely

[benjj]

Jimmy,

Not sure if you're sorted but I am about to stick all the stereo kit from my early 944 on ebay - Sony head unit, 10 cd changer, 4 x speakers and the 944/924 cd wiring loom cut to size for our cars.

Drop me a line if you want it at mates rates...