My Alpine doesn't switch off when i pull the key out of the ignition or even switch the engine off, any idea how to wire it up so it does?
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You got an amplified aerial adapter as in antenna for radio, if this is wired as live permanently then this will kill the battery anyway, need to switch this via ignition/radio mate for one thing anyway, as for head unit, sure there's few ways to do it, but I'll let andy deal with that as he would have answer straight away for yer, if he doesnt reply then I'll check it but he's usually spot on.
If it's an 02 model then it's CANBUS so no, you won't have a yellow/red stripe ignition on feed. Sounds like you're running the antenna adapter and the rear amp from the perm live in which case neither of them will ever turn off, so yes this will kill your battery pretty quickly. Post a pic of your wiring!
Yes no help at all really. The PC9-401 harness should have a red connector which plugs into the Audi loom, the other end of the red connector should have 2 RCA plugs and a blue remote on flying lead. The RCA's plug into the rear RCA's on your Alpine and the blue flying lead connects to the blue/white flying lead on the Alpine which is the power antenna trigger. You also connect the other blue flying lead from the antenna amp to the same point. If you have a harness on the Alpine as well then you really don't need the other part of the adapter, just cut the yellow wire on the Alpine harness and join it to the red wire on the same harness and then plug this straight into the Audi harness. The only feeds you need on this harness are earth and permanent live. The brown front speaker ISO plugs straight into the Alpine speaker harness and the rear feed is provided by the rear RCA's via the red adapter. Then all the blue flying leads connect together. Sounds & looks like you have the wrong adapter as I can't see any RCA's in the pic.
Yes you need the PC9-404 adapter:
http://www.incarexpress.co.uk/view_product.php?partno=PC9404
Then ditch the black to black ISO connector part of it, as all you need is the red plug to RCA part.
The RCA's plug into your rear RCA's on the Alpine, and the red plug on the other end into the pre-out connector on the Audi loom.
The blue flying lead connects to the aerial amp flying lead and then both connect to the power antenna wire on the Alpine.
The speaker plug on the Alpine connects to the brown Audi front speaker connector.
You are then left with the black power ISO on the Alpine. Snip both the yellow and red wires on the Alpine harness (or looks like you can just unplug them), connect them together and then connect both to the red wire on the black ISO plug, which should be in the top corner above the black earth wire. This will pick up the perm live from the Audi harness and feed it to both perm live and ignition on live on the Alpine. You only need 2 wires on the black power ISO, perm live and earth.
Plug the ISO plug into the black ISO socket on the Audi loom and you're done.
Can't really tell what you've done from those pics, but if you followed my instructions then you'll be fine. You still need the PC9-404 adapter not the 401, it'll make the wiring a lot simpler as well as providing a far better quality signal.
No completely wrong. The yellow wire is not an earth and the red wire should not be connected to earth. In fact the earth is the only thing you shouldn't be touching.
Yellow is perm live 12v
Red is ignition on live 12v
Black is earth
Blue is 12v trigger when radio is on
Connect 12v to earth and you get smoke & sparks, DO NOT DO IT!
Connect the red and yellow together on the alpine and connect them both to the perm live on the Audi black ISO (top right corner if looking from the wiring side)
Connect all the blues together so they all turn on with the HU
Black earth is already in the correct position
Plug the RCA's on the red connector into the rear RCA's on the Alpine. I still don't see any RCA's so you're still using the wrong adapter as far as I can tell.
No completely wrong. The yellow wire is not an earth and the red wire should not be connected to earth. In fact the earth is the only thing you shouldn't be touching.
Yellow is perm live 12v
Red is ignition on live 12v
Black is earth
Blue is 12v trigger when radio is on
Connect 12v to earth and you get smoke & sparks, DO NOT DO IT!
Connect the red and yellow together on the alpine and connect them both to the perm live on the Audi black ISO (top right corner if looking from the wiring side)
Connect all the blues together so they all turn on with the HU
Black earth is already in the correct position
Plug the RCA's on the red connector into the rear RCA's on the Alpine. I still don't see any RCA's so you're still using the wrong adapter as far as I can tell.
Hi Dan, can you not make those pics any bigger? Not sure why your photobucket page won't let me enlarge a decent amount, if I use my photobucket page I can get my images almost full screen size, but yours are no bigger than a fag packet on screen so I really can't make sense of the wiring.