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Not very good at this technical stuff (I'm an IT dude!). Just bought myself a new Pioneer MP3 stereo. Can anyone please give me an idiots guide to fitting it - it would much appreciated!!
Thanks :cool:
If its for a s14 then get yourself a aso adaptor from halfords etc.. its then a simple plug into the existing car wiring. remember to connect the blue cable from stereo in to elec. A.
hope this helps.
Tricky-Ricky
15-05-2002, 22:20
Ant, where did you get your 7400 from? no one seems to have any!
Its an S13 - its already got a Sony CD player in but I think it has been in it since brand new. Nissan had a phase where you could pay extra for a sony cd-player when brand new.
Got my 7400 from www.cel-direct.co.uk - £249
I know they've been out of stock for ages but I placed my order on sunday and got it Tuesday morning. Halfords want £379!!!!
Dano, cheers for the advice.
Do I have to move the black surround thing? And how?
RichSeal
16-05-2002, 13:42
The black surround just pulls off, you can get your fingers in by the gear stick gaiter. Then the radio sits in a metal cage which is screwed into the dash.
To fit it halfords do the ISO plug for the S13 too. (about £10.99) The only thing to watch is that with mine, the ground wire was wrong in the ISO block from halfords, so I had to do my own ground wiring. Not really that difficult to do tho. :D
The ground on the s13 is basically where the original stereo is screwed onto the mounting. it uses the stereo body.
So u will have to wire up a ground urself.
Tis very easy though, just loosen off one of the mounting screws and then wind a wire under it and tighten the screw, u have a ground!
Kev
Ps. anybody know what to do with the two pin aerial lead, am just doing without radio just now.
RichSeal
17-05-2002, 11:51
Thats exactly what I did:D
As for the aerial, I had a connector come with my aerial, I just put one of the pins on my 2 pin plug in there and it works fine! I'm sure its a dodgy connection, but I've got raido - pretty good signal too!
Tricky-Ricky
21-05-2002, 22:33
Ant, whats the verdict on the Pioneer 7400mp ? did you get it fitted OK and whats it like ? as im'e thinking of buying one!
I sort of got it working - I'm just waiting to get the aerial adaptor so I can have radio. Its a piece of piss to fit although it has to go over the black facia thing cos its too wide to fit 'in' it without cutting or sanding the facia down - I like it tho, looks kinda 'meaty'.
Soundwise its fantastic. I've standard speakers (which were complete pap on the old pre-historic SonyCD I've pulled out), but with this stereo they've had a new lease of life (at least until I get round to fitting my own!). There's all sorts of fader/equaliser/sub settings you can play about with and it's all dead simple to figure out thanks to the huge impressive display (you can even pick which colour you want the buttons to light up!). I think there is 8 funky display demo things (dolphins, racing cars, amp output dancing needle things (which are very cool!!) and plus a few others. It's worth the £££ alone for mp3 playback. I paid 260 inc p+p from www.cel-direct.co.uk. They were very quick, order late sunday night, got it 10.30am tuesday morning.
To be honest, I don't think you could go far wrong with it, for 250 notes you'd be hard pushed to find a player that plays mp3s, and then you have the toys you get with it.
:D
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