Hi,

Have just brought a kenwood radio and it has a blue/white cable that is for power control or antenna control, it not connected to any block and is just a loose wire.

The instructions say you can connect it to the power terminal for the booster amplifier of the film type antenna.

Does this mean that i wouldnt need anything extra for the fabia?

How would i connect this up? Would i have to cut the antenna power wire coming from the cars original wire and join the two together? Which wire is it? On the harness there is a white cable in pin 5.

Many thanks.

Edited 13 April, 201214 yr by dany2010

This is just a low current live cable which tells the amplifier to turn on if you are running a subwoofer for example, or if you have an electric extending antenna, I know the factory fabia head units have built in signal booster so you will probably need to purchase a separate one if you want a decent signal you can also power this from that cable.

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/con-ct27aa05-ct27aa05-aerialantenna-vag-active-iso-adaptor.html

Edited 13 April, 201214 yr by lemadrell

Thanks.

Managed to buy one from halfords.

Im probably being thick but i've read all the posts on here and i still cant work out where the blue wire goes. Any chance you could try explaining again please.

P.s. the red wire that you swap with the yellow is spliced and has a extra bullet connector free. Could i attach it to this?

Edited 13 April, 201214 yr by dany2010

Right quick guide.

Red - Permanent live

Yellow - Ignition

Black - Ground

Blue - Low current live

Red and yellow need to be swapped as the Skoda iso connector has them the other way around.

Black as normal

Blue you can insulate off as this is not needed unless powering a separate amp.

When fitting the signal booster this will run in line with your antenna, but will also have a wire which requires a live source while the ignition is on, as you will not want this running constantly.

So you could use the blue wire from your head unit for this purpose.

Thanks, got everything until you said about the blue wire from the head unit.

I havnt yet removed the original radio, is there an extra pin in the cars iso connector that wouldnt be on the kenwoods wire harness?

Havent got a solid blue wire on the kenwood harness.

Edited 14 April, 201214 yr by dany2010

OK just had a quick look into this. Kenwoods blue and white does the same job as solid blue, you can insulate this off and not use it until you get the signal booster from halfords, then when you fit that connect the blue and white wire to the blue on the signal booster

To get the headunit up and running all you really need to worry about is

Swap yellow and red and just plug in and you will be away.

Ignore blue and white for now until you get the booster then use to power it.

Brilliant. will give it a go in a bit.

Thanks for your help. Hopefully this thread may help others as well.