Headunit has no memory!

[_Tom]

Hi

I have a sony headunit in my car at the mo and it has no memory. Anyone know how to sort this?

Cheers

 

[blink172]

Sounds like you need a permanent live to the battery if it resets everytime you turn the ignition off. Who wired it up?

 

[Chris n nic]

This happened to me years ago...just a wrong wire somewhere (permenant live or something?)

Chris

 

[Bryan]

remove head unit and swap the red and yellow cables over in the ISO block

 

[_Tom]

I knew it wa only two wires, just wasnt sure which.

Cheers!

 

[JJ!]

Quote: Originally posted by Bryan on 01 March 2005

remove head unit and swap the red and yellow cables over in the ISO block

as he says!!

 

[McBunny]

be carefull with vag cars tho beware of the k wire if you dont nasty things can happen

 

[_Tom]

Sorry, so am i changing the cars wiring or the headunits?

McBunny - whats this k wire aswel or you just takin the piss out my minimal knowledge?

 

[Bryan]

the wiring interface between the cars ISO block and the head unit, should be a separate loom

 

[_Tom]

Cheers for that!

 

[fizzy_drink]

PS Also check the fuses....

 

[Smokey]

Yellow is permanent live iirc

 

[_Tom]

Sorted!

 

[Mikey23]

Tom what did you do in the end? a girl mate of mine is swapping her headunit over in a pug 206 and is having the same problem. i have no idea when it comes to this sort of thing, so is it just a matter of unplugging these 2 wires and swapping em round, or do u have to re crimp them to the connector?



cheers
Mike

 

[DAVE_RSi]

what i had to do in the passed to get round this was

in the block ull notice the red and yellow

1 will be permanent live

if red to red and yellow to yellow isnt working

change it, so its red to yellow and yellow to red

see if that works,

 

[_Tom]

f**k me this was a while ago! lol

I just swapped the red and the yellow wire over. It was just a case of disconnecting two connectors (Male/Female type) and reconnecting and hey presto!

 

[Mikey23]

cheers for the replies guys - sorry still a little confused. am i swapping the wires over at the stereo end? or the other end? if so where abouts is that? near the battery? or does the connector bit pull apart and u can just turn it over? sorry for al the questions, im doin this totally blind having not seen it.

Cheers
M


[Edited by Mikey23 on 19 April 2005 at 3:06pm]

 

[_Tom]

Mine had connectors on the red and yellow wires coming away from the connector block in towards the depths of the car.

(If you get what i mean!)

 

[Mikey23]

oh ok, i sort of get it. maybe ill figure it out a bit better when i see it? thing is i thought the connector looked like this

http://www.amghummer.com/radio/monsoon/images/connector_01.jpghttp://www.amghummer.com/radio/monsoon/images/connector_01.jpg

How do you swap the wires over, cos you cant just pull it out of the block can u? or am i getting really messed up here? is there another connector block like the one on the pic a bit further down which u can just unplug and swap over?