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Can anyone help me out here? My Transportor came fitted with an aftermarket Kenwood KRC Radio / Cassette player (must be at least 15 years old); I've aquired a Blaupunkt Monte Carlo MP26 radio / CD player which unsurprisingly has a differing socket to that fitted to the Kenwood system. I've done some research into what's available out there but drawn a blank. It can't be rocket science...surely? Appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

Get a Vw to bluepoint loom.
Or go to a car audio place and ask them to fit it.

universal and most radio/CD player connectors are available from Halfords

It's pretty straightforward to fit - and I'm a novice - if you don't have the manual with the wiring they're all available online. When I changed mine recently it turned out that the more modern stereo I was putting in needed 2 12v power lines - 1 for the memory and 1 for the unit to run. Otherwise it will only stay on standby.

just join them together.you might as well wire it to your leisure battery whilst your at it..

needed 2 12v power lines - 1 for the memory and 1 for the unit to run

I put this up a while back works well!

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/VW ... _batteries

Thanks for all the advice, looks like I need a harness for starters to plug into the back of this player, and then work out where the leads at the end go. Took the leisure battery out a while back as it was dead and havent bothered with it since. A bit less weight to lug about too ha ha

you don't have to use a leisure battery, a starter battery will do for weekend use.... cheaper and it won't bother your ignition circuits
harnesses are available from Halfords

bought an iso std connector with flying leads from Halfords this morning; matched up leads no problem, but player wouldnt switch on!?!?

The red live (for the main positive power) from the ignition is ok as i checked it with a bulb, but not sure if there shouldnt be another live fron the loom for the memory back up connection?

Yes, it'll need 2 12v connections. You can take both from the same 12v supply. If you look at the instructions (all available online if you google) it'll show you which ones need a 12v supply.

In which case that means both the red (main positive power) & yellow (memory positive back up) leads coming from the connector block need to be wired into the red (live) lead in the van's loom.

Does that make sense??

Yep, that is correct, you do need both for the unit to switch on.
The usual setup us battery backup lead to a permanent live ie. straight from battery and the red lead to a switched supply ie. from ignition.
Both can be wired into a permanent supply so when you turn of the ignition you will still have the stereo available, or you can wire them both into a switched supply so the stereo is completly off when ignition is off but this will usually loose all preset settings when supply is interrupted.

Yay! It worked! Up and running with tunes again...many thanks for everyones advice, much appreciated