2007 Rds Stereo Replacement

[Bash]

Can anyone please help!

 

Ive just bought a 96 Galaxy 1.9 TDi Ghia and i want to replace the standard 2007 RDS cassette unit for a sony single CD player.

Ive been to halfords and bought the adaptor lead to connect it into Mr Fords wiring loom and im not getting any sound from the unit.

 

am i doing something wrong? reading through some of the other entries in the forum, there seems to be a lot of complicated things about adding into Ford I.C.E. wiring systems.

 

any advice or help would be very much appreciated as im currently stuck with listening to the radio as all my old cassettes got thrown out by the Ex wife.

 

Great website by the way, some excellant info.

[Ivor_E_Tower]

First thing that springs to mind, assuming you have power to your new head unit, is that you probably have a separate amplifier that also needs powering up, or a signal to switch it on. Have a look at the Ford Scorpio site I mentioned to Sarah Seahorse somewhere a few weeks back. It's full of great info.

(I take it you've connected a speaker or two straight to your new unit to verify that it is working OK).

[Bash]

Thanks guys,

 

Ive just read the small section on the bottom of the paperwork that came with the adaptor and with the sony head unit you have to power the amp from a swithched permanent supply as the unit turns the power off when not listening to the tuner, which means cutting and shutting one of the cables on the new connector to a suitable supply.

 

Having done this, it all works fine.

 

That will teach me to read ALL the paperwork first in the future and not just assume.

 

Thanks for your info and help.

[Guest steve]

RFM?

 

Red faced mechanic?

 

Right fucking moron?

 

Read fru manual? (!)

 

Woss it stand for?

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Suspect it's

read the flippin' manual

 

...which is usually the last resort

However, on the Gal it seems almost a prerequisite for almost any task!