Help please

[Matt_27]

Hi guys i purchased a sony head unit today and im a little stuck with installing it. I wanna do it myself cause it cost like 80 to 90 bucks to get it installed at a shop. I have these parts im just wandering what goes in to what. im also having trouble getting the old cords out the back of the stock cd player. Its a vx by the way any help would be great cheers. i also have the pocket for under neath all ready

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[trentvy]

buy a wiring harness that connects to the stock vx plug and adapts to the the sony head unit you purchased. usually sell them at autobarn supercheap etc

[Matt_27]

The Person at autobarn told me thats what the wiring harness in the first pic does or is that the wrong thing? and is it a fair pull to get the stock harness out ok the stock unit to get the head unit out ?

[trentvy]

oh sorry dude didnt even look at those pics. yeah that should be it. just plug it in. give the stock plugs a big pull and they should come out.

[Captain Kermit]

Odds are you're going to have to cut the thing in the first picture in half. The wires coming out of the big plug connect to the ones that connect to your new headunit. The two little ones are for plugging into stereos that have that plug, but your's doesn't, it just has bare wires, so cut them off. The big plug itself plugs into your cars stock head unit plug. The colours should match, if I remember correctly from my mums VT. If not, this table should help. It should say which wires which on the headunits wiring (the thing in the second picture).

The third thing is for your antenna, which I'm pretty sure you won't need at all because that's what the antenna plug looks like on my mums VT, my stepdads 90 rodeo and my 82 VH, I daresay they didn't change it for the VX.

[Mike S]

Yep, the aerial plug is the same as the VT, the plug on the back of the VX unit has a small plastic tag you need to push in before it'll come out, you cant just yank it out. And you can get that adaptor lead with a VX plug on it so you wont have to change any wiring at all. Go back to Autobarn and get the right part.

ps. Wow !! $12.99 for a euro aerial adaptor .... I think I'm going into retailing !!

[Matt_27]

Ok cheers guys thanx for ur help il go back today and see what they tell me cheers for the help.

[Matt_27]

Hey Guys i got the wiring sorted out now just wandering if this is meant to go in and is it a squeeze cause i can only get in in half way and it gets stuck

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[black as]

Check the cradle unit that nothings bent and also you have plenty of room at the rear, other words push your wires to the side of the cradle, it needs a firm push to lock it all into place.

[Matt_27]

it seems straight to me and wires out the way. how much of a push it slide in half way does it then need a big push to get it to clip in

[black as]

A firm push is required, but don't get heavy handed with it, if it doesn't move somethings in the way

[Matt_27]

ook cheers mate il keep trying does it go in right up against the top

[Matt_27]

i can get in the whole way a bit under the top but not hard up against the top like half a cm from the top

[black as]

Not sure what you mean, but did you get a surround for the unit as this covers your gaps around the head unit

[Captain Kermit]

That metal thing won't go in. Unfortunately you're going to have to take all the trim surrounding the head unit off so you can get to the sides of the metal cage that the HU sits in, and drill holes in it where the head unit is meant to go.

Did your headunit come with a little rubber knob thing? Attach that to the back of the headunit and you can push the HU hard up against the back of the metal cage, it's to help locate the HU in the right spot.

Also, the little pocket thing that sits under the HU will probably take some modification to fit it properly. There's a few little tabs that have to be cut out and you need to wrap some tape around the outside of it where the clips are to make it stay in place properly.