fitting a radio/cd player

[brian]

Hi,I have just acquired a radio/cd to fit to my moggy,it is a panosonic CQ-C1115n and has an 8 plus 4 pin connector,my neg earth car has basic wiring,old radio and speaker that is fitted is awfull,can anyone help me identifying the wires,,,,,,1 black,1 green,1 white,1 grey,1 purple,1 purple with black tracer,1 green w blk tr,1 white w blk tr,1 grey w blk tr,1 yellow marked batt 15a into a red,1 red into yellow,2 blue with white tracer, 3 from radio are capped,hope someone out there can help,many thanks,cheers,Brian

[Nuffles]

White, grey, purple and green are your four speaker wires. White is left front, grey is right front. Green is left rear and purple is right rear. The same colours with black tracers are your earths for each corresponding speaker. If you're only going to have front speakers just insulate the ends of the green and purple wires and tie them up behind the radio. Yellow is permanent battery, red is switched battery. If you want the radio to switch on and off independently of the ignition simply leave the red wire and connect yellow to +12V (fused, obviously). If the radio won't turn on like this you can connect red to perm 12V but you will probably find you're having problems with it running the battery down overnight. If this is the case (it doesn't work with only yellow connected) or if you want it to turn on and off with the ignition, connect the red to the ignition side of the fuse box (there are posts on here that tell you how to do this, use the search). If you want to do it properly, orange/brown will turn the screen backlight on/off - you can take a supply from your speedo backlights for this one.

This should cover most of it, I've posted on this subject on this forum before so a quick search should bring up posts with anything I might have forgotten in. If you have any more specific questions feel free to ask.

[brian]

Hi,many thanks ,I think that covers about every thing,I will give it a go early next week,cheers,Brian