Yeah.....I found that out when I got there, but none the less I got a rear view mirror, window winders and front grill for a tenner, so not bad for an afternoon out!

haha I got my haynes manual arriving in the post shortly, I've been waiting on amazon marketplace sellers slow asses! Cheers for your help mate, I really appreciate it and I'm sure I'll learn more as I go. There's a gtx turned up in the scrappy up the road for me, I'm gonna go and see what I can ...

Ok.....so I finally got some spare time today and checked a few things. Firstly I got a second hand 2e2 for £8 (score!) so I thought I'd put its waxstat in some boiling water to see what happened so I could compare it to the one one the car. The one already fitted didn't seem to expand as far or as ...

Sorted, mate of a mate had a look and yup, there was no switched live so he connected me one up and woop woop, all is working!

Yeah I encountered a battery draining with this head unit on a car a few years ago, i just had to switch the red and yellow cable around that time.....if only it were that easy. That would be cool Ian I would really appreciate it cheers.

Nightmare..... I managed to get the sony unit to power up, stuck the aerial power cable into the equation and it extended, the realised when I turned the ignition off the head unit was still on and the aerial was still up, I take it i had everything wired into the permanent live?

Hi Rob, yeah thats exactly what happens but giving the accelerator pedal a good blip doesn't cure it, it normally takes about 5 - 10 mins to idle normally. It does start without touching the pedal when it's cold but when it warms up and after say a 10 mile drive, turn the ignition off try to start ...

Cheers for your help mate, I'm gonna check / try and do these procedures hopefully tuesday (if it's stopped raining by then. But yeah I know what you mean about a pinch of salt.......
Once again cheers you've been really helpful, I'll let you know I get on inspecting etc.

Cheers for the advice there. I do seem to be having problems with the auto choke (so I've been told) when I start the engine on a morning it idles at just over 2000 rpm and makes a loud ticking noise, drive for a couple of miles and it both idles fine and the noise disappears. One of my brothers ...

Ok so I've got my scirocco now and from what I've been reading a common thing people do is upgrade their carb to a weber. As I'm not as mechanically minded and skilled as i would like to be I was wondering if anyone could tell me A. the benefits of this and B. how hard is it do this conversion ...

Yeah, I think you're right, the green wire pictured seems to be connected to a blue wire coming out of the back of the existing head unit, when you take the green wire out of the equation the stereo (and aerial) won't power. I think I've figured it out, not gonna get time til the weekend now so I'll ...

I think I'm with you, the cassette player does operate without the ignition turned on, I shall have another play around in the morning and see if I can sort it out. cheers for the help fella.

Yo, cheers for the speedy reply, being in a bit of hurry earlier I forgot to mention, that the sony head unit came with a harness that does fit directly into the iso connectors, so I plug them in, turned on the ignition and........nothing no power to the head unit, I was wondering because of the ...

Hi guys, just got my 'rocco at the weekend drove it home from North Wales to Northumberland and had loads of fun, other than only being able to listen to Radio 1! Anyway I went to install my sony head unit this morning - never thinking about the electric aerial, so basically I'm stuck I have no idea ...