Car stereo fitting in Manchester

[mancunian01]

Can anyone recommend someone in the Manchester area?

I don't trust Halfords...

Cheers

Andy

[dazleeds]

if ya were in leeds id say pop round lol

what is it ya fitting? just a headunit or full set up??

most headunits will be straight plug n play as long as your wiring isnt already butchered

Daz

[mancunian01]

Ive got a Clarion....i can check the model number.

I'm not good with car electrics.

Its stil got the Blaupunkt tape headunit in....

[maxfield]

Stereo's are easy peasy, even with block connectors

[sati]

At the Head Unit:
Constant 12V+ Red/White
Switched 12V+ Purple/White
Ground Brown
Antenna White

At the Fader Control:
Rt Front (+) Blue/Red
Lt Front (+) Yellow/Red
Rt Rear (+) Blue/Black
Lt Rear (+) Yellow/Black
All (-) leads should be further down this wire harness, or follow each to their respective speakers to find the (-)'s.

[Chris]

Someone with a bigger bookmark collection than me will no doubt add a link shortly to a funky little lead that you can buy which plugs in to the accessory socket behing the glove compartment, and comes up the the back of the head unit with an ISO (industry standard) plug on the end. Then just make sure you have an ISO plug with the headunit and it is just plug and play.

If you still have the original Blaupunkt tape deck in there then the speaker wires should be unmolested so that side of things should be pretty simple to.

If i were you a would i would do it myself. it's not that hard, especially when you have the distilled wisdom of the zone at your beck and call.

Have a crack and let us know how you get on.

Chris

[sati]

i dont know of an e30 to iso lead , theres claims that an early e36 one will fit. if not then try

Car Audio Centre

Unit 3, 153 Great Ducie Street, Manchester, M3 1FB

Sales & General Enquries: 0161 832 4550

9.30am to 6pm monday to saturday.

[fingerman]

Have a go yourself - the worse you can really do it blow a few fuses ?

Get a multi meter or 12v bulb to get the live's and earth the experiment getting which speaker is which

I'm currently re-wiring all my speakers with new cable as it's currently a mish-mash of wiring. Speaker cable is really cheap and it's not difficult to route the cables back to the head unit - on route you may find a few things out about the car (like water in rear passenger footwells, grr)

Anyway if not then get someone you trust to do it - there are loads of car audio fitters in Levenshulme or round South Manchester

[Cloggy Saint]

Probably plenty of places that do stereo removal in Manchester

[sati]

ive ready gave him all the info for which wire is which in my frist post , but ya its takes about 10mins tops 2 do it your self , and new cable to each speaker will be best if fiting desent comps to get the best of them amp them as well.

[fingerman]

Probably plenty of places that do stereo removal in Manchester

Even more in Liverpool

[dazleeds]

i have a brand new lead somewhere

think it came from car audio centre online
bout 15 quid iirc

[noney82]

were in manchester is you

[mancunian01]

Cheers for the help and advice all!!

Im in Heald Green, think i'll have a go myself. As said above loads of places around south manchester. I've just been a LAZY g*t and not done it and when i do get to drive her that crackling blaupunkt is a bit annoying. Things start to go when they get old!

Anyhow, all taken on board and will give it a go...cheers all.

I've not been on here that long. So all the help will be great!

Cheers

[noney82]

good look, mine use to crackle so i replaced the speaker cable cured the problem

[mancunian01]

Its definately the volume pot on the stereo.

I will keep the original and replace with the alpine....