Aerial not working on new stereo

[Guest]

Hey guys. I\'ve got a bc5 rs that came with standard head unit and the aerial used to go up when I turned the radio on. I\'ve since put a new headunit in and now the aerial wont go up and down. I know I probably haven\'t wired the aerial of the original loom into the new one. I was just wandering how do I wire it in?

Cheers muhammad

[lachlan]

your head unit will have 2 blue wires out they should be labeled

one is amp signal :turns on the amd anytime the head unit is on

other (usually lighter blue) is the areial signal . it puts out 12 volt only when you are listening to the tuner

i put the aerial one to the amp once when i was younger and got mega fucked off coz amp went on radio and not on anything else and really made no sense to me at all . was prolly 16 at the time

as for finding the aerial wire either google colours or flick the spare wires at a 12volt souce and see if aerial kickes into life

or just wire it to the amp wire and it will stay up the whole time . i hate listening to the half broken aerial in the legacy try and go up and down when i change from cd to fm .

failing that just yank the thing up with pliers and be done with it

[Guest]

mint ill give it a go and how do i wire in frequency expanders? never had to do one before

[lachlan]

if you bought a new head unit you wont need one .

failing that it goes in line with the aerial cable . plug the band expander into the aerial plug on the head unit and the aerial plugs into the band expander . and wire the red wire to the red for the head unit