bmwe21.net forums

Just bought a 2nd hand radio (new one though)
Anny tips on installing the radio?
Are there just plain converters ?
Or will i need to cut the wires on the car?
E21 320/6 1982

Thx in advance for tips

OK thanx for all the tips

I figured it out myself, got it running just have to install

hardly difficult dude.
red, yellow lives.... earth.
speaker wires etc.
electric ariel is usually blue/white tracer.

murran wrote:hardly difficult dude.
red, yellow lives.... earth.
speaker wires etc.
electric ariel is usually blue/white tracer.

don't even have a elec. ariel ^^
Figured it out myself then
But it was a litle weird to plug yellow wire onto the blue one and the blue one on the red one.
Only thing i was sure was the mass. black on black (and most mass cables are brown but it went to brown.
for speakers is easy, it even has lables on the cables, other wise i had to use the ohm-meter to figure it out

All depends on the kind of radio you are fitting, so many connectors and color coding even isn't universal as you discovered. I guess that's why there wasn't much of a reply, a lottt of work describing all possible situations, next time if you post some details and or pics I'm sure you'll be helped out before you know it as that's the strongpoint of this place...

Jeroen wrote:All depends on the kind of radio you are fitting, so many connectors and color coding even isn't universal as you discovered. I guess that's why there wasn't much of a reply, a lottt of work describing all possible situations, next time if you post some details and or pics I'm sure you'll be helped out before you know it as that's the strongpoint of this place...

Ah well, now I know i can help someone else
But if they used other color for wires then you don't know it ofcourse.

It came with radio optional Guess?
So there won't be too many cables.. ?
Or is there stand cables present?
Where is Some little info about the radio electrics cause there is realy NOTHING to find on the mighty internet?

Probably because there are a million possibilities!

As standard, I believe the wiring loom had three wires added for the radio (continuous +, switched +, -). If you ordered a radio with the car, the aerial was added and wires for the speakers you'd like, rangeing from only 1 mono speaker underneath the center grille of the dash to 4 speakers (2 front kickspace and 2 rear shelf). That's all there is to it looking from the side of the car's wiring.

Jeroen wrote:Probably because there are a million possibilities!

As standard, I believe the wiring loom had three wires added for the radio (continuous +, switched +, -). If you ordered a radio with the car, the aerial was added and wires for the speakers you'd like, rangeing from only 1 mono speaker underneath the center grille of the dash to 4 speakers (2 front kickspace and 2 rear shelf). That's all there is to it looking from the side of the car's wiring.

That is why i love forum's
Now i know what that center grille is for in my dash
Gonna check if there's a speaker or a hole or something