Car radio/Stereo ECU unit/Antenna

[flyingdutchie]

I am now busy inside the car. I've found 2 antenna cables. One coming out of the loom with a thin red wire to it. Another one (seem after market), also with a little red wire to it, going through the body on the passenger side where the water tank is.

Question about the stereo ECU. My car had the center speaker. Not anymore. But, what is the use of this ECU? I have my door speakers connected directly to the radio. This leaves only a function for the rears?

[Jhonno]

flyingdutchie said:

I am now busy inside the car. I've found 2 antenna cables. One coming out of the loom with a thin red wire to it. Another one (seem after market), also with a little red wire to it, going through the body on the passenger side where the water tank is.

Question about the stereo ECU. My car had the center speaker. Not anymore. But, what is the use of this ECU? I have my door speakers connected directly to the radio. This leaves only a function for the rears?

It used to control the speakers.. But if you now run directly off the headunit it isn't needed.

[flyingdutchie]

Great. Thanks. The aftermarket antenna isn't going through the bulkhead, but is placed afterwards and goes to the back of the roof inside the car. Where (i think the immobiliser console is.

[Byker28i]

I tried all sorts of aerials as the original wire in the loom under the dash doesn't give good reception. I tried the aerial up the a pillar, I have a powered FM aerial element stuck under the rear of the boot - on the panel above the fuel tank which gives reasonable FM reception, but in the end went with DAB and used a JVC HAL-4 aerial on the rear window (you stick it inside and out - no holes to drill).

Took me ages to decide to fit it as it breaks the no external ethos of the Cerbera, but it's a tiny thin aerial...