Not the most productive day

Sep 07, 2008 13 Replies

Washed and waxed the 'wagon, cleaned and fed the leather.



Routed a 4-way adaptor from the lighter socket to under the armrest and ran a cable to power my Sat. Nav. on the right hand side of the instrument pods.



Then it all went wrong.



Bought a Kenwood Bluetooth / iPod head unit, pulled the old head unit and plugged the new one in.



Doesn't work.



It appears that installing an aftermarket head unit in a 156 with Bose isn't quite so simple.



Only one company appear to stock the wiring harness to sort it, and even having looked at the pictures I'm not convinced it'll do the job for me.



(It supposedly takes the line-level output from the head unit to the Bose amp. - but the head unit is only outputting 2 channels, so I'd lose my fader from what I can see)


Return head unit for one with full quota of line outs.

I've been a thick c*ut.

For some reason, I forgot that phonos carry both signal and ground....

Return user for one with more intelligence

Heh-heh. Already starting to have "senior moments" at your age?

He's going repping in an Alfa. If that's not a dementia-inspired idea what is?

So it would work after all?

ROTFL... YTC.

hehe

-- JackH

Yes, it would, once I've bought said wiring adaptor.

I'll have to buy another tomorrow.

Especially one with "I wouldn't touch it with yours"* Selespeed.

  • SteveH everytime selespeed is mentioned previously.

Oh come on. It's "eccentric", not a senior moment.

I always thing you have to worry if a fanboi says "I wouldn't touch it with yours". I actually hope it works, but selespeed has such a bad rep...

Apparently Bose in A3s is hard work to get going with a 3rd party HU too, so it's not just italian electrics at play...

I'm sure it's completely mad to buy a Selespeed for business... but it was seriously cheap for what it is.

OK, build date is late 2002 (checked the seatbelts earlier as I need to book a service and cambelt), but it's on a 56 plate, is a very nice place to be with its Momo leather and Bose audio. Plus, I needed something without a clutch pedal.

I've made sure I have a very good warranty, so I'll just keep my fingers crossed I won't have to use it.

I had a bitch of a time getting my jvc to talk to the Mcintosh amp in the Subaru. Ended up having to discover the pin outs and chop up the factory cable. Complete pain.

Fraser

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