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Hi
Does anybody know of a company that will fit a new CD player and speakers in my F. And remove the old multi disk changer, radio and speakers. I live in the birmingham area...
Thanks....

It is an easy DIY job if you know which end of a screw driver to hold.

It's really easier than it looks. I was terrified about doing the one I "Elsie" as there were extra wires hanging everywehre. When she arrived all the sound sytem had been removed, speakers everything but there was a mess of extra wires hanging out and the std DIN plugs had been cut off. It turned out to be easy to sort out and I am no electrian.

"Blue 33" my MPi was as bad as that also had a tracker (defunct) and a car phone wored is which was also defunct:-







So I bought a std din connector and removed all the extra rubbish wire and wired in the std din the plugged the new head unit into it and voila all working.

This is just a bit of the extra wiring that was removed:-



Until I tackled it it was giving me night mares.

woodworm wrote:Hi
Does anybody know of a company that will fit a new CD player and speakers in my F. And remove the old multi disk changer, radio and speakers. I live in the birmingham area...
Thanks....

halfords

Got myself a Kenwood CD player from a MY2002 car, my old tape player is stuffed.

I have found the ICE wiring diagram and there are 3 power supply wires.
Now I can read a diagram,
fuse 12 is shared with the Clock and footwell lights, therefore the Purple wire must be unswitched supply
Fuse 17 is shared with the oil temp gauge, therefore the Light green/White wire must be switched.

So far so good,

but what is Fuse 8? The diagrams show it's shared with illumination and lights.
Is the Red/Black wire the feed for internal illumination of the player?


Now the for CD unit,
Black is obviously earthed,
and I have Red and Yellow wires.

Anyone got any ideas on which is which???

Red/Black wire would be for Radio illumination if you have such connector/wire on the radio. Most probably you do not have it, so forget about it.
Yellow wire on the radio is permanent power for the radio, so that is purple wire from diagram.
Red wire on the radio is switched power, so that is LightGreen/White wire from diagram.

Turned out the wiring was the easy part.

My cheap cd player had a stuffed laser head.

So I bought a second unit and it turned out to have a stuffed power supply.

So I took both head units apart and used the good cd unit from one and the power supply.radio section from the other
and put one good one back together.

So the 'project' is declared a success and I now have a nice loud and original looking cd player in my car.