Xantia 97 More help Please!
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Not sure if I've missed something. Have you proved with meter or a bulb that you've got power at the dimmer switch? It's odd to lose a power supply without a fuse blowing (unless you've broken a wire somewhere)
Think I'd disconnect the radio and see if everything reverts back to as it was before you fitted the new radio.
BTW, hope the new radio's working!
Think I'd disconnect the radio and see if everything reverts back to as it was before you fitted the new radio.
BTW, hope the new radio's working!
Martin
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I presume you've checked all the fuses and not just the one listed in the handbook (i've sometimes known handbooks to be wrong...)
does your radio have the input on the ISO plug for sidelights (used for auto dimming the display)
does your radio have the input on the ISO plug for sidelights (used for auto dimming the display)
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i have tried with and without the radio in, putting the old one back in and even messing with the fuses and dimmer switch to no avail, though interestingly the lights on the old radio come on when it is plugged in.
really getting a pain now and quite dangerous lol
please if anyone has any more ideas i will be eternally grateful.
really getting a pain now and quite dangerous lol
please if anyone has any more ideas i will be eternally grateful.
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Sorry, I got it mixed up - both radio backlight and illumination ONLY come on with lights - but I found, rather annoyingly, the backlight is not affected by the dimmer.morph_1904 wrote:yeah i do but i can not remember now if it was on all of the time or with just the lights on i can always check that before i leave for work though (with so many little things going wrong i am lugging about a full tool kit just in case)
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just a thought but i remember jim saying once that pretty much every wire runs under the front crossmember so if your engine "went" because of a cooling fault it might have some bearing there...
but as has been said i'd be amazed if your engine was really dead, these XU sods are very hard wearing. Whereabouts are you? someone might be willing to come have a ganders etc...
but as has been said i'd be amazed if your engine was really dead, these XU sods are very hard wearing. Whereabouts are you? someone might be willing to come have a ganders etc...
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