Anyone Upgraded The Beta Or Gamma Set Up?

[jamesey]

hi i have a vw sharan mk2 and frankley im dissapointed with the ice set up it has a beta tape deck and a 6 disc front loader , basiclly the sound is crap so ive taken it out and fitted my mp3 sony headunit , crancked the volume up and that sounds crap aswell not like in my mk 1 alhambra.

ive unplugged the headunit speaker wires and noticed there is only 4 wires going to the vws iso fitting , so i have all 4 speakers from the front outputs if that makes sence , also it resets everytime i turn the ignition off , i didnt need an iso lead as the sharans loom just plugged straght into my sony set up , what can i do to get 4 speaker working on the head unit properly , has anyone else suffered with this , thanks

[tiny]

also it resets everytime i turn the ignition off

 

Cant help you with your speaker issue, but the resetting when you turn off the ignition could be the same as mine, I had to reverse the permanent and switched lives in my Galaxy.

[jamesey]

sorry ive put this in the wrong section should have been in mk2

[smokie]

not exactly sure what you mean with the speakers, how many speakers does the sharan have in total? your sony head unit will be 4x35watts or something like that so it should supply a feed to each of your rear speakers left and right and your front speakers left and right. use the Fader and Balance functions on your head unit to see exactly what is working.

the reseting problem is exactly as tiny has said i have had this problem in a few cars. the red and yellow wires on ure head unit should have bullet style connectors on them and if you still have the instruction manual it will probably tell you to swop them over?

[jamesey]

not exactly sure what you mean with the speakers, how many speakers does the sharan have in total? your sony head unit will be 4x35watts or something like that so it should supply a feed to each of your rear speakers left and right and your front speakers left and right. use the Fader and Balance functions on your head unit to see exactly what is working.

the reseting problem is exactly as tiny has said i have had this problem in a few cars. the red and yellow wires on ure head unit should have bullet style connectors on them and if you still have the instruction manual it will probably tell you to swop them over?

 

 

my iso leads that have the speaker wires in only have 4 wires in for the front speaker inputs not the rears , so ive got 2 chanels on my crap beta unit powering 4 speakers in the 4 doors

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Yup, that rings a bell. You need to reverse the permanent live and ignition live as per tiny's comment above if you fit an aftermarket unit. Also you need a proper head unit with front/rear fader and wil probably have to run new speaker cables to feed front and rear separately. May be worth talking to your local dealer and seeing if you can find out the name of the audio specialist that they use when customers want to upgrade their music systems