another bad HU install - with photos

[DG cruiser]

ok ive done what we suggested as above, the memory is FIXED   however the power is not   lol , when i switch the car ignition the HU wont come on, i have to do it myself, when i switch the car off the HU stays on constantly unless i switch it off,

its getting better   , what should i do now? im quite enjoying tinkering about with my car  

ive just noticed that on the HU the on/off switch has a LED ring light around it, when its on its blue, when its off it goes red, problem is when car is off and keys out the red ring light is still on, wont this drain the battery?, this bit is worrying me 

[Captain Joe]

Hoover yer car out you r dirty thing (lol)

looks spotless to me    fookin women 

[mike w 84]

right sounds exact same as mine your cig lighter is wired permant if you look in your hand book at the fuse for the cig lighter it will need moveing over one hole ie its stagerd now so move in line with the others

[Testor VTS]

looks spotless to me    fookin women  

I have to second Laura's statement

and in my case - fookin OCD  

[DG cruiser]

right sounds exact same as mine your cig lighter is wired permant if you look in your hand book at the fuse for the cig lighter it will need moveing over one hole ie its stagerd now so move in line with the others

cheers mike 

re the cleaning 

[laura]

lol! mine was minging until i cleaned it on saturday, hovver included...

I'll get off my high horse now, Mine's probably full of bits of leaf again by now lol

[DG cruiser]

ok enough of the cleaning patter 

update - i have swapped the fuse, HU now switches on and off with the car! HOORAH!!!! 
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on the down side, the memory is not holding again, will i have to reverse the memory wire switch i did earlyer?

[mike w 84]

 
 worth a go i guss

[DG cruiser]

ok, the yellow P = the power source to fag lighter,

Red M = one of the memory wires?

where is the other memory wire, the memory was fine before i moved the fuse but i had to move it as the HU was on permenantly

[mike w 84]

thats because you had two perm lives now you changed one to ing live so just swap thos two bk again 

[DG cruiser]

when i went out to the car tonight to fix the memory, once the HU was out i seen i had only done the fag lighter tap, that was all and it sorted the memory, i hadnt swaped any wire,
then once i swaped the fuse so HU switched on and off with car i lost the memory, i hadnt swapped any wires although i thought i had, so i made the swap, the result was -No power source.

so ive swapped the wires back to normal red/red & yellow/yellow , it works on the turn of the key on/off but with no memory, if i was now to move the fuse back to its stagered position i would get memory back but have to switch cd player on off by my self,

so.... which wires should i try to swap now?lol , sorry Mike you are being a great help ( as you all are )  and you have helped get me this far, this thing is tiring me out today lol

[mike w 84]

thers only two power wires see pics 1st norm pos 2nd swaped for alternative feed

[DG cruiser]

ive tried the second pic aswell when i did that ( i had already made the fag lighter tap ) there was no power at all

i dunno whats going on lol,

i'll swap the red and yellow again tomorrow, see what happens, just incase i had a bad connection

[wheeler]

Do you have or can you get acsess to either a multimeter or a 12v test lamp ? This would make things much easier. A small 12v test lamp something like >THIS Should do fine

[DG cruiser]

Do you have or can you get acsess to either a multimeter or a 12v test lamp ? This would make things much easier. A small 12v test lamp something like >THIS Should do fine

Thats me got a reader  , what would you like me to do?