r32 radio

[Jaystar]

hey all

this may sound like a bit of a stupid question but i have gotten an r32 not long ago now and when purchasing it already had an aftermarket cd player installed (Pioneer). Now there is no aerial on the vehicle and when trying to listen to radio the headunit does not pick up any stations. Now i am wondering if this is due to the way the headunit has been wired up? Can you not get any radio reception in the r32's? Or what could it be?

Any help appreciated, just been giving my cds a good work out and wouldnt mind some radio.

thanx

Jason

[B0oStEr]

On the R32 the antennae are the fine wires in the front and rear windscreen.

Is your Pioneer deck an aussie or jap model? The jap models only pick up a few aussie stations as the bandwidths overlap a bit.

If it's a jap deck you could have a bandwidth shifter fitted.

If it's an aussie model then it may not have been fitted correctly. I think there is an antenna booster in the boot of some if not all R32s. I've been told the black and red wire, that is taped to the antenna coax that plugs into the back of the deck, needs to be wired to the power antenna (blue) wire that comes out of the deck so the booster can get 12 volts.

When the factory deck is replaced with an aftermarket deck you need an adapter plug.

The factory plug has 2 pins and the a/m deck only uses the pin from the rear windscreen.

One suitable adapter on the market is Aerpro AP348A.

I hope that helps.

[Roeshambo]

Hey Jaystar,

I have also just picked up an R32 with an after market radio and had the exact same problem as you, no radio reception. After pulling the deck and checking it turned out that the previous installed had not connect the cores of the cars antenna cable to the core of the adapter plug. 10mins and solder iron fixed that problem. Just be careful as the core wires are really thin and can break real easy if your heavy handed.

Hope that helps.

[CNBLOW]

make sure the ant trigger wire is wired up to the ant booster box...should be a red with black

[tikki169]

I had the same issue and was due to it being a jap spec radio. Fitted the band expander and all sorted. 2 weeks later i just bought a new headunit.

[Jaystar]

I had the same issue and was due to it being a jap spec radio. Fitted the band expander and all sorted. 2 weeks later i just bought a new headunit.

ok guys i found the black and red wire which has a little plastic connector on it.

Do i remove it from this connector and add a metal male connector on the end of it so i can plug it into the blue and white wire coming off of the headunit?

is this all i have to do? or do i have to do something with the 2 pin connector also?

it looks like an aerial one but doesnt fit on the headunit.

i made an error the current headunit in it is a jvc kd-sx695.

all help appreciated

thanx

Jason

[B0oStEr]

Hook up the 2 pin plug to the headunit with the Aerpro AP348A adapter.

[Jaystar]

Hook up the 2 pin plug to the headunit with the Aerpro AP348A adapter.

where abouts in brisbane would i be able to get one of these from?

like jaycar???

[Chris Rogers]

from me.

www.soundoff.net.au

I'll deliver it if you like.

[Jaystar]

ok i have fitted the adaptor so that i can plug the aerial into back of headunit and radio is working fine. Because my aerial is the little wire built into the windscreen do i still need to hook up this red and black wire to the blue one out of the head unit?

because it says auto aerial or something like that?

if so can someone explain why to me please.

thanx

jason

[Chris Rogers]

yes you do. that wire runs a small antenna amplifier. if you switch to AM you will notice that it doesnt work. FM around the city will be fine but outside of it FM will be patchy.

connecting it up ( blue wire on most radio) to the ant control will solve this problem.