alright peeps,
ive just brought a 2000 w plate xsara vtr 1.8 furio with no radio, ive got a pioneer head unit in the garage, ive brought the supposedly right converter block / stalk converter from autoleads (code from their webby) fitted all in but the radio doesnt turn on or off with the key and the steering wheel controls are mental. Im not bothered about the steering wheel controls but does anyone know which wire is which so i can just wire it straight in? ive got a haynes but there are more wires going into the sort of iso plug than is showing in the haynes manual (a white wire etc) It seems from the autoleads website that the wiring is different on xsara's between the end of 1999 to mid 2000 than earlier xsara's and later mk2 xsara's - also the radio shop mistakenly gave me the converter block from a very early xsara which didnt work either - on my xsara there is 3 iso type connectors - the 2 normal ones and a seperate thinner one for the steering wheel controls
any help would be appreciated
cheers
Brett
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The cable pinouts should be something like this:
Pin 1 - N/A
Pin 2 - N/A
Pin 3 - N/A
Pin 4 - 12V
Pin 5 - Automatic aerial
Pin 6 - Illumination
Pin 7 - Ignition
Pin 8 - Ground
Pin 1 - Right rear speaker +
Pin 2 - Right rear speaker -
Pin 3 - Right front speaker +
Pin 4 - Right front speaker -
Pin 5 - Left front speaker +
Pin 6 - Left front speaker -
Pin 7 - Left rear speaker +
Pin 8 - Left rear speaker -
Citroen really don't help by making all the cables the same colour, do they?
You should be able to double-check these pinouts in the owner's manual in your golvebox.
Pin 1 - N/A
Pin 2 - N/A
Pin 3 - N/A
Pin 4 - 12V
Pin 5 - Automatic aerial
Pin 6 - Illumination
Pin 7 - Ignition
Pin 8 - Ground
Pin 1 - Right rear speaker +
Pin 2 - Right rear speaker -
Pin 3 - Right front speaker +
Pin 4 - Right front speaker -
Pin 5 - Left front speaker +
Pin 6 - Left front speaker -
Pin 7 - Left rear speaker +
Pin 8 - Left rear speaker -
Citroen really don't help by making all the cables the same colour, do they?
You should be able to double-check these pinouts in the owner's manual in your golvebox.
the problem here is that the multiplexed xsara has no ignition live feed at the radio.you need to run a seperate feed to it (ideally from the cig lighter).you should only have 3 wires running to the power block on the radio.battery live,ignition live & earth,all the other wires on the car harness must be isolated from the radio to save causing problems with the BSI.
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
on my car the fag lighter is a permanant live feed not a switched one - anybody got any ideas what else might be straight switched feed not multiplexed feed or is everything multiplexed ???
also had a email back from autoleads saying basically "sorry mate, we dont support this unit any more as pioneer now make their own one" - so the local radio shop is getting the pioneer one in for me but i cant see it being any different to the autoleads one unless the multiplexed switched lead actually goes into the "controller / convertor" box which it doesnt do on the autoleads one
cheers
on my car the fag lighter is a permanant live feed not a switched one - anybody got any ideas what else might be straight switched feed not multiplexed feed or is everything multiplexed ???
also had a email back from autoleads saying basically "sorry mate, we dont support this unit any more as pioneer now make their own one" - so the local radio shop is getting the pioneer one in for me but i cant see it being any different to the autoleads one unless the multiplexed switched lead actually goes into the "controller / convertor" box which it doesnt do on the autoleads one
cheers
If you look at fuse 23 in the interior fusebox you will see that you can pull it out & move it over a position,if you move it over it will change the fag lighter to an accesory feed.poormansporsche wrote:Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
on my car the fag lighter is a permanant live feed not a switched one - anybody got any ideas what else might be straight switched feed not multiplexed feed or is everything multiplexed ???
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