New headunit - Now aerial wont work

[impulsive]

Headunit is working fine after install and finding a blown fuse, couldnt manage to find any wire on the headunit for the aerial, any suggestions?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Usually the wire is a dark blue with white stripe to run the power aerial.

[impulsive]

hmm, i only have 4 on the wiring harness, Yellow, red, blue/white and black.

[impulsive]

There isnt any wire for the illumination or aerial power like the kenwood unit i had... the blue and white is the remote wire for the amps, yellow is constant, red is accessories, black is earth

[CapriciousWL]

What make and model is the head unit? Can you pick something up off the amp power supply?

Did the previous unit have a button for the aerial (as some of the standard units do) or was it just an automatic feature?

[Stewlz]

You should have an orange cable in the mix there as well which is illumination, the blue/white as mentioned before is the aerial power, the coaxial cable which was in the bottom right hand side of the old head unit is for the aerial, I think you need an adapter for it to work

[impulsive]

ive got everything working, minus the aerial up/down when go to radio... there isnt a wire on the headunit harness for it, im guessing it would be orange but its not there.. is there any other way to wire it in?

[hakhawk]

Hook it up to the accesory wire. If you want to put it down without turning car off, add a switch(search for the pioneer antenna switch thread)

[HoZy]

Link to headunit? Photos of said headunit?

[impulsive]

Hook it up to the accesory wire. If you want to put it down without turning car off, add a switch(search for the pioneer antenna switch thread)

ok, so this isnt a new problem? I was thinking about a switch, might just do that..

on a side note, unwrapped the tape to my standard plug as i was thinking about buying an adapter, discovered the dodge bastards at Wow in townsville have cut my old wires from the plug... how jack is that...

[impulsive]

Link to headunit? Photos of said headunit?

Pioneer DEH-6350SD Car CD MP3 Player - ONLY $178

what other photo's you want?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Your blue/white wire is the antenna wire or power amp wire. It should work if you hook it up to both the amp and antenna.

[impulsive]

nah it just stays up constantly, ill just add a switch when i get around to it.. thanks for your help

[hakhawk]

nah it just stays up constantly, ill just add a switch when i get around to it.. thanks for your help

yeh, its a problem with pioneer units. regardless of feedback from installers/customers, they still refuse to run a seperate radio antenna wire, so its put up with it being up while unit is on, or install a switch.

thought you had a cheap ass ebay unit for a while there, because you didnt mention the remote wire first off.

[impulsive]

thanks for the help guys...