Hello

I bought a new MP3 car stereo for my car but took the head unit out to find 2 plugs and my new player only has one. I now realise that the unit only supports 4 speakers and the VRs has 8. Is there anyway to fit this unit or have I wasted

If you have a wiring loom on the stereo. Remove it.

Connect the car loom direct to the Head Unit. Maybe.

What car is it going into ?

Hi it's an 04 fabia vRS

The 2 blocks on the car are a different shape to the one on the unit. Really looking for a converter. Don't want to cut any wires.

Sharon

In the ebay advert it states:

* Includes 1 DIN fitting kit and wiring harness

I take it, this wasnt in the package ?

Oh! Welcome to Briskoda.

vRS have only 4 speakers don't they? i.e 4 woofers and 4 tweeters - so with a typical 4 x 50w headunit, they're all being powered by a channel.

It sounds like you need the wiring harness. There should be something to convert the Skoda two wire choc block into the one for the radio. My Pioneer came with such a wiring convertor.

OK, I told you I was a newbie or maybe a numpty would be better!

There is a wiring harness that fits in the back of the unit. It has 13 cables coming out of the single block ( I assume this is the DIN fitting kit).

Ideally looking for something to convert the skoda blocks to the DIN connection that I have.

I don't know much about speakers, just realised there were 8 speakers but I guess these are still fed from 4 channels.

i just want to listen to my MP3s:worried:

Sharon

Can you post a piccie of the connection the wiring supplied with the head unit? Give me an idea as to how it compares to what the car plugs in to.

Thanks for all your help, will get pics tomorrow.

Sharon

OK -As you can probably tell from the vRS wiring loom, the plugs are two rectangular ones, one brown, one black from memory. But each one has the release lug in a different place, so you can only put them in the wiring adaptor the correct way around.

If the wrong wiring adaptor has been supplied, then you should be able to get the right one sent to you.

Here's a pic...

As you can see it's only one plug and a bunch of wires. I'm really looking for something that will go from the skoda blocks to the single terminal that goes in the back of the unit.

Found this on ebay but I think it's 2 plugs to 2 plugs.

VW & SEAT ISO wiring harness adaptor lead NEW PC2-69-4 on eBay, Terminals Cabling, In-Car Entertainment GPS, Cars, Parts Vehicles (item 330157035157 end time 27-Aug-07 09:41:23 BST)

Sharon

Thats not a DIN adapter thats for sure. The idea behind 'DIN' is its a standard so it can connect into anything.

The Fabia vRS has six speakers doesnt it? no rear tweeters as far as I remember. Either way they are only fed by four channels from the headunit and the front tweeters are just wired straight into the front woofer anyhow.

Dare i mention Halfords!? or their is a guy on ebay trading as hifilinks who is very good (based in Lincs)

Halfords...that believe it or not is a very good idea.

Thank you

Thanks to everyone that helped me. I evetually spoke to a nice guy named Manuel at an Edinburgh Branch of halfords. He knew exactly what part I needed and explained how we had to wire it up. (switching the +ve and -ve power).

Wired it all up tonight and works a treat. The FM signal is pants so I guess the aerial amplifier is cack but as I never listen to the radio anyway and now have 2gb of mp3s on SD to listen to I don't think it will matter.

Thanks again

Sharon

Thanks to everyone that helped me. I evetually spoke to a nice guy named Manuel at an Edinburgh Branch of halfords. He knew exactly what part I needed and explained how we had to wire it up. (switching the +ve and -ve power).

Wired it all up tonight and works a treat. The FM signal is pants so I guess the aerial amplifier is cack but as I never listen to the radio anyway and now have 2gb of mp3s on SD to listen to I don't think it will matter.

Thanks again

Sharon

Glad its all sorted.