Wiring help needed! 81 244GL
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Wiring help needed! 81 244GL
Hi everyone,
First of all, long time lurker, first time poster!
Now from the offset, I realise that you guys must receive about a million requests for help with wiring, especially the radio. I've tried searching with no luck and I feel like (unfairly, albeit!) taking it all out on my Volvo!
Basically I was told by the previous owner that he had a aftermarket radio in the car, which he took out and put the old one back. When I got the car, the radio wasn't working. The lights would light up, but no sound. Inspection behind the unit showed a mess of cables, nothing hooked up to the square connector.
So I decided a simple solution would be to pick up a radio from a wrecked 244 which had the original radio side's wiring in tact.
Good news - the two square connectors match up. Bad news - no power to the radio, and from comparing the connector from the car that I got the radio from, to my car, it appears there has been some wires taken from the main harness.
As you can see in the pictures, it looks like the red wire with the connector needs to plug into something and the smaller of the two black wires needs to go somewhere...
http://i46.tinypic.com/2m6ts1y.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/2m6ts1y.jpg
I've tried searching around the area to see if I can find any wires that these would likely be part of, but with no luck. If anyone could point me in the right direction to what these are likely to be, it would make my life a lot easier!
First of all, long time lurker, first time poster!
Now from the offset, I realise that you guys must receive about a million requests for help with wiring, especially the radio. I've tried searching with no luck and I feel like (unfairly, albeit!) taking it all out on my Volvo!
Basically I was told by the previous owner that he had a aftermarket radio in the car, which he took out and put the old one back. When I got the car, the radio wasn't working. The lights would light up, but no sound. Inspection behind the unit showed a mess of cables, nothing hooked up to the square connector.
So I decided a simple solution would be to pick up a radio from a wrecked 244 which had the original radio side's wiring in tact.
Good news - the two square connectors match up. Bad news - no power to the radio, and from comparing the connector from the car that I got the radio from, to my car, it appears there has been some wires taken from the main harness.
As you can see in the pictures, it looks like the red wire with the connector needs to plug into something and the smaller of the two black wires needs to go somewhere...
http://i46.tinypic.com/2m6ts1y.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/2m6ts1y.jpg
I've tried searching around the area to see if I can find any wires that these would likely be part of, but with no luck. If anyone could point me in the right direction to what these are likely to be, it would make my life a lot easier!
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