I have an older Pioneer Premier deck laying around and since I don't listen to tapes anymore, I am swapping it out with the stock Volvo unit. I've got the wiring harness, dash pocket, and everything is ready to go, except for one snag...

The Volvo obviously has a power antenna. My Premier deck doesn't have a wire for a power antenna. My question is, is it possible to just jump the power antenna wire on the wiring harness to the A/C wire so the antenna comes up when the car is turned on (regardless of stereo being on)? I don't use automatic car washes so I'm not worried about ripping the antenna off. I just need the antenna to go up so I get radio reception.

And if anyone knows, is it possible to hook up an iPod through the Aux. inputs using simple RCA cables like I do with my home stereo, or is there a trick to it? I couldn't get any aux. sound through the deck.

Thanks in advance.

On a side note: Volvo batteries don't last very long when you're playing with a stereo and the car isn't running......

 

Does the deck have any sort of switched power? Maybe labled amp or something like that. I believe that would be a relatively thin blue wire. If not, and you want the antenna to go up when the car is on, just hook up the lead to a switched power source: the cig lighter comes to mind. Thing is, if you do, you won't be able to put the antenna down when you go through a car wash. What I would do is to hook it up the the cig lighter, but also put a toggle switch in so that you can retract it while the car is running.

 

Please re-check the wiring diagram of your older Pioneer Premium car audio unit. Even my circa 1970's Pioneer Supertuner unit had a blue wire for power antenna.

Download owner's manual for your car audio unit here...
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...069882,00.html

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That's what I thought too. It should have one. I'm pretty sure I looked at all the wires. I'll have to look again tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for the replies. [sm=smiley20.gif]

 

Blue wire out of the Pioneer h/u is the amp or antenna wire. Don't have one, then the ACC. wire is best bet.