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you could wire the red to the memory on your stereo.. the yellow wire

but as Mark says the stereo will slowly drain a starter

VWCamperfan wrote: Connect red to live on stereo and brown to neutral on stereo.

That makes sense to me. I'll try that tomorrow and let you know what happens. I think what has thrown me is that there was a stereo connector already wired in using the van black and red wires. Obviously this doesn't mean it was ever wired in right.

I know none of the wires go to the leisure battery as all that wiring is relatively new. This wiring I'm using is all behind the dash original wiring.

How easy is it to wire a separate earth? Is it just a case of a wire screwed to the body and the other end connected to the stereo?

there's an earth point on the A pillar just above the fuse box

kevtherev wrote:there's an earth point on the A pillar just above the fuse box

Brilliant, I'll have a look at that.

One thing I noticed earlier when I was looking at Wiki was that my fuse box has thin long fuses rather than the two pronged fuses that are more common.

Is this the original fusebox set up?

it's the early type fuse box I think it changed to blade type in 1986

the earth point will look like a crown

kevtherev wrote:it's the early type fuse box I think it changed in 1986

Perfect, thanks mate. I appreciate all your help.

I'll have a look tomorrow and see what happens.

Well I tried the new set up, brown and red van wires and it worked perfectly. The black van wire which sounds like it should be the ignition live doesn't do anything so I'm going to go with the red as my live feed.

I've just got one more question - as the van wires have been cut so much over the years, they are very short and need extending. What's the correct cable to use to extend the live and earth wires?

Thanks.

Phil - come and do my stereo? I had a panasonic one - lost the face off (Doh!)- so swapped it out for an old Sony stereo I had lying around (so I took off the Panasonic to ISO wiring harness/loom as it won't fit the Sony)
The Sony don't work.
I don't see why - ISO connector from dash straight into back of Sony stereo.
I really don't know why the Panasoinc would work and the Sony won't even power up (it could be a failed stereo I guess, but it used to work - its a stereo I've had that I always fit to my cars).
I'll go and take a look at fuses I guess, but if internal lights work, I wouldn't have thought it was fuse.

Sarah

power wires are wrong way round

phil19gti wrote:

kevtherev wrote:not earth

The two brown wires I found ran right next to the red wire. To me this makes sense to be for the stereo but I'm not sure why there is two?

Should there be two lives and an earth from the van?

Make sure they're not the brown wires going to the centre dash speaker, this had me going for a minute or two.....

kevtherev wrote:power wires are wrong way round

Thanks Kev. I'm going to have another at weekend maybe.
Sarah