I Feel Stupid

[yemgi]

Back in 2003, my headunit had the ERR3 problem and the dealers in France did not want to change it under warranty so I bought a Pioneer headunit from eBay at a very good price. At the same time, I had lots of mods done on the car and one of them was having the roof layed with carbon fiber so the aerial was removed when all this happened. As a result when I installed the Pionner headunit, the tuner was unable to pickup any radio signal.

After a few time, the carbon stuff did not turn out quite well so I removed it and had the roof resprayed but with the aerial hole filled ind. I decided to reconnect the aerial but inside the car, along the rear window, behind the side panel. The radio still did not work unfortunately.

now, a bit more than 4 years later, the Pionner mechanism for the front panel broke down so I decided to go for a new headunit. I had to rewire everything as the previous headunit had no ISO connector so I wired it directly on the standard loom but the new one has ISO connectors so I wired a universal ISO adaptor to the loom after removing everything from the previous headunit. While I was doing it, I realised that there is a antenna wire on the standard loom as there is on the ISO connector. I did not connect this wire on the previous headunit.

Guess what, the radio is now working again! What a knob ... I drove the car for more than 4 years without being able to use the radio just because I did not wire the head unit properly ... I really feel stupid now. Luckily enough I have loads of CDs and the headunit was MP3 capable.

[sparkystav]

LOL nevermind, just make sure you connect it this time lol

[MrADeveci]

Brave man for mentioning it ........... lol

But surley the aerial wire is muh thicker than the rest, you would have noticed this?? lol .... obviously not!!

[yemgi]

It was not the aerial wire as such, it is the "power antenna" wire which activates the integrated amplifier in the aerial base when the radio is turned on, it is a standard 1mm2 wire

The usual aerial wire is big enough to not forget it :)

[MrADeveci]

Yeah yeah ..... you're trying to make your self not look worse! :)

[DJ Wozza]

but take credit from the fact you owned probably the fastest French IS200 without a Radio :D

[yemgi]

Yeah yeah ..... you're trying to make your self not look worse! :)

indeed :P

but take credit from the fact you owned probably the fastest French IS200 without a Radio :D

That's only because I have no aerial, it does not disturb the airflow on the roof :duh:

[Rillo]

I once had a Citroen and took it to the garage because the passenger seat was making a racket. Boy did I feel stupid after the engineer inspected it and found a bag of music cassettes under it!! :D

[Unregistered_User]

Cracking - glad to hear after 4 years you got it sorted, Guilhem :)

Jamie