Folks,
doesn anybody know it it's possible to get hold of the connectors for car audio units? I've got a Becker CD/nav system in my Rover SD1 Vitesse, and it was "installed" by a professional who has made a complete hash of the wiring. He took a standard plug, which comes with about 6 inches of wire on it, and connected each wire to the relevant speaker/power wire from the car using these ugly, fat bullet connectors. This resulted in a big fat mass of bullet connectors that prevents the unit fitting properly into the DIN space in the car, because they take up so much room behind the unit!
He put exactly the same unit in my other identical Vitesse a year or two ago, and I assumed that when he said the unit would protrude half in an inch that this was caused by the age of the car and lack of compatibility with modern units. On this second car I had cause to remove the Becker unit and discover the appalling wiring! If it were wired up
*properly* and tidily it would push in properly!Anyway, I would like to get hold of one of the connectors that plugs into the back of the unit (it has four rows of 4 connectors, grouped in pairs of rows). I want to get hold of one that has *no* wires already attached so that I can wire the speaker/power/speedo wires directly into it. This will make for a tidy wiring loom behind the unit that won't occupy any space and will allow the unit to push fully into the dashboard!
I get the feeling that these audio unit connectors always come with lengths of wire attached, and that's no good! I can't remove the individual terminals from the casing. I don't want to have to solder the wire ends together or use other intermediate connectors - that's what's causing the current problems.
Michael