Hi all

I know, I ****ed up, i bought Pioneer SPH-DA230DAB on sale, and I don't know how to install it. I wanted to install it by mysef, but i don't know where to start from. Should i buy an adapter, or should i solder the wires, which wire to which, should i remove the pins from my wiring harness and connect them to aftermarket HU, or what. 

I dont't know nothing, but i want to do it by myself. I have only four speakers in front doors, blues radio and five pins which I don't know what to do about.

Just want to my pioneer have the same functions ad my blues radio. To being aible to turn it on without starting the engine, to self shut off after cca half an hour, to not ****ing up diagnostic system.. and so on

I have searched the internet for all kinds of informations, but i still didn't move nowhere.

Sorry for long post

Sorry for bad english

If anyone can just throw me a hints at me how to start whith all of this

Thanks in advance

Ok, i found that i have two red wires with constant 12 V current, i dont know why 

And i found that orange wire with brown stripe has uneven current, it shows all kinds of readings every half a second on my multimeter from 0-11V

Now i know nothing.

On the diagram sticker taped to my blues radio it says that this wire is CAN -

 

Canbus

Please don't tell me that I have to buy ****ing 150£ canbus adapter to connect this yankee piece of garbage on my precious Rapid to make it working propperly

Edited 2 December, 20187 yr by Mata

It's funny to reply to my own posts, maybe it's gonna help someone with the same issue.

Anyway, I feel like I trying to get some pussy from the girl I like.

Thats funny.

I'm gonna continue with this ****...

Updates comming untill I make that **** working as a charm.

I would definitely by a harness adapter for it. So much less fuss than chopping wires. I assume the canbus adaptor is purely for displaying stereo info on the instrument cluster behind the wheel and not vastly important seeing as how there are no stereo controls on the steering wheel except skip track or next radio station. 

Thanks for the reply bro

So you think that it should work that way? If so, that could save me some serious money and time.

I could buy it and try

 

I've ordered this ****: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Adapterkabel-ISO-Audi-Seat-Skoda-VW-Quadlock-Phantomeinspeisung-Fakra-150-Ohm-70-/391648186416?_ul=HR

 

Hope it will work.

I don't know do i have to get piggyback fuse in order to deliver a switched live current to the Pioneer.

Nope. This adapter is all you need. It will connect the permanent and switched lives to the right places. Permanent live is yellow i believe and the switched(from ignition) is red.

On 09/12/2018 at 18:50, Zakiwashi said:

Nope. This adapter is all you need. It will connect the permanent and switched lives to the right places. Permanent live is yellow i believe and the switched(from ignition) is red.

You are right. Sort of.

I just connected everything with that adapter, but radio needs two sources of 12V to be able to work apparently.

Adapter came with constant 12V wire and ground wire mounted to connector, but switched 12V wire is left cut and disconnected.

So I took that wire and press it by hand against another pin that delivers constant 12V (as i mentioned earlier, the car harness have two pinns that delivers only constant 12V and no wire that delivers switched 12V) and the unit came to life. It works very nice. 

I tried to turn it off by pressing the off key and it went off.

I wonder, as you said that i don't need a piggyback fuse, can I just connect it this way to another constant 12V and switching the unit by hand?

Can two constant 12V powered unit make any damage to it self and a car?

Technically, i think only the red wire needs power, but if you don't connect the yellow, you will lose all stereo settings when the car is switched off as this is the permanent supply from the battery, which already has an inline fuse in your fuse box. No accessories are fed from the battery without a fuse. 

No damage will occur if you simply attach your yellow wire from the car to both constant and switched supplies for your stereo, I have done it on previous cars. It just means that your stereo will not switch off when your car does. You may want it this way but that is up to you. 

7 hours ago, Zakiwashi said:

Technically, i think only the red wire needs power, but if you don't connect the yellow, you will lose all stereo settings when the car is switched off as this is the permanent supply from the battery, which already has an inline fuse in your fuse box. No accessories are fed from the battery without a fuse. 

No damage will occur if you simply attach your yellow wire from the car to both constant and switched supplies for your stereo, I have done it on previous cars. It just means that your stereo will not switch off when your car does. You may want it this way but that is up to you. 

 

I thought that too, I tried to connect it with only yellow wire, but nothing happened, then switched the red and yellow and had the same result. So I just connected yellow and pressed red against another 12V pin just to see if  the unit will turn on.

I will just have to fit that cutted red wire to the adaptor and leave it connected that way then.

I am gonna get a switched 12 V frome a fuse box. Piggiback is ordered.

Pioneer stays in standby mode when i turn it off. By pressing any key on it, the display automatically turns on, so I would say it is on standby mode which I assume drains the battery.

10 more days of waiting for the piggyback...

In the meantime i can check which fuse gives switched 12V....