Headunit wont power on

[Siliconslick]

I have a sony gtx570 head unit.

I've connected it to the car with the wiring harness adaptors i picked up from autobarn. the unit wont power on.

i dont know what to do from there.

[HARVZ-6]

deffinatly power to both constant an ignition wires on headunit?

[Siliconslick]

i'm not sure what you mean, the factory headunit was working until the power to it was lost and it started to show CDE on the display.

[Siliconslick]

i just went back to the car and checked all of the connections, whilst squeezing the plugs together i could make the car aerial go up and down i dont know what this means.

[seraphic06]

The harnesses usually have the CONSTANT and ACC cables around the wrong way. Try switching the cables and see how you go.

For reference:

Accesories - Yellow
Constant - Orange/White
Illumination - Brown/White
Earth - Black/White
12V OUTPUT - Yellow/Red
Radio Mute - Yellow/Black (VT onwards)
Antenna up - White (VR onwards)
Antenna down - Blue (VR onwards)
Illumination OUTPUT - Grey (VT onwards)

Speakers
Front Left (+) - Tan
Front Left (-) - Grey
Front Right (+) - Light/Green
Front Right (-) - Dark/Green
Rear Left (+) - Brown/Black
Rear Left (-) - Yellow/Blue
Rear Right (+) - Blue/Orange
Rear Right (-) - Blue/Black

[HCVP]

quick note, disconnect your battery whilst doing this if you havent already done so, my first ever installation i spent hours going over all my wiring trying to figure out why it wouldnt work, only to discover i'd blown about 4 fuses, most likely at the start of the instalation when i was messing around with the power wire.. haha...

[holdenboy]

Yeah mate check your fuses first.