Jaspermowatt · Aug 3, 2014

Hi,

I am getting rid of the ancient tape cassette radio and putting in a new one. I have attacked my Peugeot 106 and removed the stereo wires from it and plan on transplanting them into the landy.
From the peugeot's wires, i need a Permanent live, earth, ignition live, illumination and i think thats it (except for the audio wires).
I was wondering whether I can use any of the existing wires that are already in place from the landy - i've put a picture somewhere. I figured earth and permanent live will be simple but the ignition live and illumination I am not sure about. I don't really know what the illumination is - my guess is a lower voltage live?

But yeah, any advice would be helpful otherwise I will just put an external switch in so it is turned on and off regardless of the state of ignition.

Cheers,

Jasper

Lowlight · Aug 3, 2014

There are loads of extra wires you can use to take your feeds off, I used a multi meter to find permanent / ignition lives and used which ever wire suited. I wired in the standard type of block connector so if I swap head units it's just a case of unplugging the old and plugging in the new. I'll be doing this soon as the head unit I bought is utter crap - avoid Beat products!!

The supply for the lighting circuit is just a 12v feed to tell your head unit when it needs to dim the display.

Jaspermowatt · Aug 3, 2014

Lowlight said:
There are loads of extra wires you can use to take your feeds off, I used a multi meter to find permanent / ignition lives and used which ever wire suited. I wired in the standard type of block connector so if I swap head units it's just a case of unplugging the old and plugging in the new. I'll be doing this soon as the head unit I bought is utter crap - avoid Beat products!!

The supply for the lighting circuit is just a 12v feed to tell your head unit when it needs to dim the display.

Cheers for that. I have just been doing as you say and the only wire i can find that seems to be influenced by ignition is one of the white ones and it is live if the ignition is on and it creates a circuit with the positve battery terminal but if ignition is off it create a circuit with the negative terminal.... bit confused by that.
So the lighting circuit can be with any of the live feed already there?

Also, should i put a fuse anywhere?

Thanks

FlyingPete · Aug 3, 2014

Mine is wired thus:

Take a feed from one of the brown wires (unfused, live) behind the dash (there should be a connector block with some space) and poke this down into the fusebox (much better than using inline fuses IMO). Do the same with a white wire (unfused, switched by ignition).

For the illumination feed, there should also be some red wires behind the center panel for gauge lighting etc- this will suffice for the radio. Take a red wire from one of the red connectors directly to the orange wire/pin 6 of the radio plug. This way the radio's lighting should come on with the sidelights/gauge lighting.

Fuse the brown wire at 5A and route a purple wire (live, fused) from here up to the radio (pin 4/red). Similarly, fuse the white wire at 10A and take a green wire (switched, fused) to the radio connector. (pin 7/yellow)

Originally mine was wired with inline fuses stuffed behind the radio, which are more hassle to replace. I rewired it as above and no issues so far.

Jaspermowatt · Aug 3, 2014

FlyingPete said:
Mine is wired thus:

Take a feed from one of the brown wires (unfused, live) behind the dash (there should be a connector block with some space) and poke this down into the fusebox (much better than using inline fuses IMO). Do the same with a white wire (unfused, switched by ignition).

For the illumination feed, there should also be some red wires behind the center panel for gauge lighting etc- this will suffice for the radio. Take a red wire from one of the red connectors directly to the orange wire/pin 6 of the radio plug. This way the radio's lighting should come on with the sidelights/gauge lighting.

Fuse the brown wire at 5A and route a purple wire (live, fused) from here up to the radio (pin 4/red). Similarly, fuse the white wire at 10A and take a green wire (switched, fused) to the radio connector. (pin 7/yellow)

Originally mine was wired with inline fuses stuffed behind the radio, which are more hassle to replace. I rewired it as above and no issues so far.

Ideal thank you for that.
Cheers for the replies guys, much appreciated.

FlyingPete · Aug 4, 2014

For reference in sorting out the rest of the wiring, here's the colour code used by Land Rovers. Some of the colours might not match up exactly but it's a good starting point. http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Lucaswirecode.htm

There will be some wires in that location that aren't used depending on what you have fitted there. There were numerous variations of that oval panel with things like oil temperature/pressure, power socket, clock, rear wiper etc and LR fitted one wiring loom to suit all.

Jaspermowatt · Aug 4, 2014

FlyingPete said:
For reference in sorting out the rest of the wiring, here's the colour code used by Land Rovers. Some of the colours might not match up exactly but it's a good starting point. [ur]http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Lucaswirecode.htm[/url]

There will be some wires in that location that aren't used depending on what you have fitted there. There were numerous variations of that oval panel with things like oil temperature/pressure, power socket, clock, rear wiper etc and LR fitted one wiring loom to suit all.

Cheers Pete, I have connected everything that you said up, and used the cigarette lighter wires; ideal as there was a wire for a light, wire for earth, wire for fused live, so i just had to get the ignition live from somewhere. Now just waiting on getting my stereo and adapter loom from my mate who i loaded it to. Should all work. I decided to also move the stereo location to the center of the dash. So cut the dash to make it fit, hopefully it'll look okay.
With regards to wire colours, I've taken the hillbilly approach and used any old colour to make up to the connections.

Cheers once again.

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