Stereo Help

Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:05 am

Since having a new dash installed (at Birds - a great job by Phil), I've had problems with my stereo blowing a fuse. Can anyone supply instructions / a website for where all the wires should be going?

It's a Sony CD player, I have no electrical aerial and no rear speakers.

Also, rear speakers... I've been quoted a decent price to install rear speakers by my local ICE shop. I'm wondering whether to trust them to cut my parcel shelf. Is it an easy job?

Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:31 am

the rear shelf is made of compressed cardboard like wood and is easy to cut.

Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:35 am

If Birds re-fitted the CD player, then get them to fix the problem.....

Rear speakers are dead easy, need to pull out the rear seats, carpet edge trims, rear shelf etc, but it's not that hard to do.

I take it your not too spanner friendly? go on give it a go!

Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:43 am

You both make correct points. Firstly, I should get Birds to sort this minor niggle but I'd be looking at over 150 miles round trip. It was an excellent dashboard install otherwise. Secondly, I'm not very spanner friendly - for fear of doing more damage than good.

I've found technical advice on the zone in the articles section so will give the wiring problem a good look over tomorrow morning and may investigate the rear before making the speakers purchase.

Any more advice will be welcomed. Thanks

Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:51 am

just a thought, the fuse that controls the stereo is also for the glove box light. The light assembly / switch in the glove box is prone to falling apart and shorting out on the chassis. If the dash has been out then maybe the switch has not been put back in properly.

Shame it's a 150 mile round trip... you must have been desperate to get the dash changed over then!

Where abouts are you then?

Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:00 am

OK, this will sound ridiculous, I'm based in Canterbury. Why the trip to West London? Well, I was unbelievably desperate to get a new dash. I'd just had my car vandalised and the idiots had taken a stanley knife to the dash to try to get into the locked glovebox (read star letter in the latest BMW Car Magazine). I just wanted to get the job done and I knew this guy Phil at Birds would do a good job at a good price.

Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:07 am

Gibbo wrote:OK, this will sound ridiculous, I'm based in Canterbury. Why the trip to West London? Well, I was unbelievably desperate to get a new dash. I'd just had my car vandalised and the idiots had taken a stanley knife to the dash to try to get into the locked glovebox (read star letter in the latest BMW Car Magazine). I just wanted to get the job done and I knew this guy Phil at Birds would do a good job at a good price.

sorry to hear that. I hope the lossers involved get to die a nasty death... or spend the rest of their sorry lives working at McDonalds.

I take it they didn't get into the glovebox with a stanley knife.

May you have better luck in the future!

Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:17 am

They failed miserably and even lost their loose change down the side of the seat! As another Zone member said at the time, the cretins will buy / steal crappy Novas and will (hopefully) end up doing damage to themselves whilst trying to match decent Bavarian stuff on the roads.

Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:12 pm

Sorry to hear that, i hope they crash the next car they nick and dont walk away. Rear shelf is a easy job, takes a bit of time to get it out, but you will find it ok. You will probably do a neater job than the average shop, because its your own car!! Go and give it a go!