Radio forgets pre-set stations

[jam.]

When I bought a mkII the other week, I kept my headunit from my old car and just transfered it across.

Is there any reason why it doesn't remember the radio stations I've set as favourites? It worked fine before, and now it's just a pain in the arse scrolling through each time to get the stations I'm after.

Also - with the steering column controls - is it just a case of buying the adapter and hooking it upto your existing head unit?

 

[Dink]

you need to swap the red and yellow wires that go between the iso plug and the head unit

 

[Struggler]

does it forget all your other settings?? and the time by any chance??

if so, then your battery live,
and ignition live are the wrong way around,

very common problem,
swap them round, and itll be fine,

 

[Dafthead]

Losing power every time you turn off? hence losing the stations

 

[jam.]

Just had a quick look, and the lead going from the back of the head unit sprouts into two sockets - both of which are different shapes from one another, so can't be swapped.

I'm guessing I need a new (iso?) lead.

 

[Struggler]

noo

one of the plugs will have all 8 holes filled with wires, and the wires will be paired in colour
this is the speaker plug,

the should have a red and a yellow wire at either end, and black some where in it, and maybe a couple others,

is the red wire and the yellow wire that need to be swapped over

 

[Dink]

normally hu manufactures fit a way of swapping them without having to mod anything

 

[Struggler]

hope this helps



sorry for the freehand writing, my ms paint doesnt work properly lol

 

[AlexG]

normally hu manufactures fit a way of swapping them without having to mod anything

Was like that on my alpine h/u. already had crimped bullet connectors so you can just swap them over with no cutting.

 

[jam.]

ahh i see, nice one fellas.

Does it just pull out and then push into place then?

cheers again.

 

[Struggler]

err, depends on the lead i guess,
otherwise just get your soldering iron out, and some insulation tape

 

[Dink]

f**k that

if you don't have the in built bullet connectors id put them tbh

 

[Struggler]

f**k that

if you don't have the in built bullet connectors id put them tbh

my pioneer one didnt have the bullets in it,

depends on the brand of headunit, and how new it is i guess,

my jvc one does :approve:

 

[AlexG]

crimp on the bullet connectors yourself if you dont have them already. easy to change back that way.

 

[jam.]

Right, got it sorted today - I think. Finally.
As soon as I removed the red wire, it brought the connector with it, which snapped when I so much as looked at it. I tried hooking it up to a spare from an old adapter I had lying around, but that was impossible.

So, I eventually resorted to just looping the bare ends of the red wire through the hole in the broken end of the connector and taping it in place.
When I hooked it all back up, it worked fine after setting pre-sets and turning off/on the ignition. However, getting the cables, antenna, and head unit in that ridiculously tiny gap was stupid. I had to keep pushing the cables into a gap to the right - but low and behold when I hooked it back up once it was in place, my lovely botch job fell out. FIVE TIMES. So I upped the botch levels by wedging some card in next to the cable to keep it in place. Then my removal keys snapped in half.

Greeeat.

I will be getting a replacement cable by the way - as I'm obviously not impressed with my efforts.

Also, messing around in that tiny gap for the head unit got me thinking - how are any more cables supposed to fit in there? a la steering column control adapter/s? I was intending on getting one but I can't see how it'd fit. Or am I barking up the wrong gap, as it were?

 

[JayK89]

mine had bullet connectors, i just changed it over then because i was having the same problem

 

[kiza1986]

A mates got this problem in a 206... Would i cut the red and yellow bout 2 inches from the iso add bullets and then connect them back up??

Also without sounding thick is it the wiring from the head unit i'd cut or the wiring from the car?

 

[Dink]

head unit wiring leave the car part along

just cut them in the middle and add the bullets there

 

[kiza1986]

Cheers dink... any other reason it would lose memory if this doesn't solve the issue?

 

[Dink]

you might have a fuse gone on the perm live but the ignition feed might fire up the unit so wouldn't show as a fault as such

 

[kiza1986]

sweet mate... will give it a badgers