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Originally Posted by russwinchester
Thanks Dave, but believe it or not I bought the Autoleads ISO connector thinking easy life, however all the leads in the connector to the Volvo harness were in the wrong place! Even the power and earth leads! So I'm going freestyle....
I'll try trial and error with the amp speaker wires, I'll get there in the end.
Yes my dashboard has single DIN, so that's at least one relief  |
What a bummer! I suspect that was for the earlier 760 that was essentially a 740 inside and had a different head unit. If memory serves there were two different patch leads available, one for the extra amp version and one without. Not interchangeable either!
Which reminds me, they did similar on the 940 that Luke refers to and on one of the Autoleads patch leads, if it wasn't the right one for the car it needed the extra link for the headlights. However all audio etc functions worked, the lighting seemed to be an oversight. I used an Autoleads lead on my last 740GLE (also 1988) and that was literally plug'n'play and didn't interfere with the lights at all.
It doesn't help that Volvo changed the wiring quicker than most of us change our underwear! Bookmark this link if it turns out to have the correct wiring diagram for the radio, the rest is fairly accurate but i've not checked the radio wiring :
http://www.networksvolvoniacs.org/im...o_760_1988.pdf
I've downloaded it so i can use it without having to search t'internet, took a while to find it online!
PS - it's primarily for USA spec cars so some things may be different on yours!