Headunit replacement
Discussion
When I replaced mine, I chopped it off and replaced it (with a choc block connector) to the new style harness. Far easier and neater plus you can push it down the dash and then use the length of the new cable to navigate around everything!
One other thing, alpine do green colour buttons on their stereos still I believe (some are blue) and these look good at night as they match the interior lights
One other thing, alpine do green colour buttons on their stereos still I believe (some are blue) and these look good at night as they match the interior lights
Sorted without any wire cutting or soldering at all, how you ask?
ordered two items from fleabay:
-Antenna conversion from DIN to ISO
-Ford to iso wiring harness
The antenna converter is pretty straight forward, my new radio's antenna connector was different so i needed one of those, then what i did was cut apart the "Ford" side of the connector cables gently with a bolt cutter. They had little spade terminals on that end and i was able to rescue those from their evil plastic prison!
Then those plugged straight into the "radio" side (3x3 square connector, mine was a 1986 Alpine cassette player) and earth cable (the earth connector went to a spot on the body of the old radio but also fitted one of those harness spades perfectly.
Then to finish it all off i tested it (wired the front left and front right the wrong way around) and tied them together with some cable ties and electrical tape!
Job done! Well almost, didn't put the radio in the slot yet cause it's 11.30pm and that'd probably end up with the police thinking i was removing instead of installing it!
Hope it helps some other wedgers out when they want to replace their radio.
ordered two items from fleabay:
-Antenna conversion from DIN to ISO
-Ford to iso wiring harness
The antenna converter is pretty straight forward, my new radio's antenna connector was different so i needed one of those, then what i did was cut apart the "Ford" side of the connector cables gently with a bolt cutter. They had little spade terminals on that end and i was able to rescue those from their evil plastic prison!
Then those plugged straight into the "radio" side (3x3 square connector, mine was a 1986 Alpine cassette player) and earth cable (the earth connector went to a spot on the body of the old radio but also fitted one of those harness spades perfectly.
Then to finish it all off i tested it (wired the front left and front right the wrong way around) and tied them together with some cable ties and electrical tape!
Job done! Well almost, didn't put the radio in the slot yet cause it's 11.30pm and that'd probably end up with the police thinking i was removing instead of installing it!
Hope it helps some other wedgers out when they want to replace their radio.
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