cant pick up radio??

[mk3grace]

Hey everyone, I have a really odd problem, which is that I can't pick up any radio stations.

My headunit is a Pioneer and I know it can pick up stations as its been in 4previous cars. I have just found a new ariel (sits on the rear 3quarter) in the scrapyard today to replace my broken one. I thought this would solve the problem, but my boyfriend says it has made no difference. Is there any other connections he should check that could be causing the problem?

thanks everyone

Grace xx

 

[Andy]

Was it working before you changed the ariel?

Check the ariel plug at the rear of the head unit as they have a tendency to come out.

If it's not that, then double check all the connections to the new ariel.

 

[Andy_Mk3]

Defo chack the connector on the end of the aerial wire, the tiny little wire in the core broke off on mine, so i just got a new connector for 99p

 

[mk3grace]

the connecter on the back of the radio is on fine, and so is the connecter at the base of the ariel. it used to work once before the old ariel snapped. how many ariel connections are there behind the dash, just incase one of them could be loose or broken etc??

 

[Rusty]

Just the one, unless you have an ISO => DIN adaptor back there, not sure which connector Pioneers use.

 

[kompo001]

Think there is a conection behind the left kick panel or glove box.

 

[Lefthooker]

Did you know that you have an ariel amplifier ??
Just out of curiosity .. do you have the triple info display with date time and Temp in it ?? When you turn your radio does the middle display go out, and did you cut the red/grey wire to stop it doing this ?
I know it's a long shot, but cutting this wire can casue loss of reception too

 

[MKDave]

Really? Never knew that. Well mine did the same, I replaced the aerial cable with a brand new one and it worked perfectly. Cost about a tenner I think, just route it the same way as the old one. The aerial cable can break.

 

[MattDaly]

Yeah, my aerial cable is the problem for me, not the aerial. I'm just going to run a new cable along to the HU.

 

[mk3grace]

Thanks for the help guys, Dave is working on the car today anyway, so I will have him check the cable for any breaks etc, and also tell him about cutting the wire

 

[mk3grace]

Dave here, Lefthooker, the red/grey cable that runs from the iso to the mfd plug is already cut haha, i will solder it back up and see what happens will have a few pics to follow soon too of the carnage

 

[mk3grace]

also where might i find the ariel amplifier just incase something has become disconnected etc from there??

thanks for the help guys

 

[MKDave]

No idea mate. I just unplugged the aerial cable out the back of the radio and from the aerial itself and replaced the whole thing. Worked perfectly.

 

[mk3grace]

Dave here, I plan to do that tomorrow, I can't wait haha! I re-soldered the red/grey wire and also followed it through the ISO block to where it connects on the radio side, and found I hadn't connected a blue/white wire, reconnected that, and now when i set the heatunit to radio mode, the date vanishes from the MFD half the problem solved I hope

Took a few pics to explain to Grace what I had to do, etc, she nearly had heart failure when she saw the next 2 pics haha, all she could say was "do you know what your doing?" do women ever have faith in us men??

Here was where the red/grey wire had broken, and also how clean cut the other end was as I found it

Can anybody tell me what the black/white wire runs to on the car side of the ISO block??

 

[Torquesport]

Speaker wire or earth perhaps?

 

[Lefthooker]

its neither speaker nor earth. Earth is always brown and the speaker wires are plugged into the middle part of the X69 plug.
Can you tell me what Pin number that is, or take a new püic from a bit further away.

 

[inverted_577]

did you kno all you have to do to get the info display up with out cutting the red/grey cable is just up split the remote cable, most iso connectors have this wire connected together with a spade terminal which then allows you to connect a seperate remote cable to the sub

 

[Lefthooker]

To get the info on the display, you must cut the red/grey wire.

Dont quite follow you on the bit about spade terminaly and wires for remotes to Sub ??

 

[inverted_577]

well that all i did on mine and on my misses corsa b and the info display still comes up the same

 

[Lefthooker]

you mean, the date isnt showing ?? You wont get any more than that unless you put an original radio back in, or have I lost the plot ?