Ka stereo help needed

[Tippon]

Does anyone know anything about car radios please? My wife’s got a 2010 Ka (Mk2) and the radio died. She had a problem with the battery, and when she gave birth the car was standing for a few days, and the battery died completely. That’s when the radio died. We jump started the car and everything worked except for two bulbs in the dash, and the radio. In the year and a half since, the battery has died on several occasions, and a brand new battery died too. We think we’ve figured that out for now (lighter socket not switching off), but we’re waiting to see. I’ve eventually got around to pulling the radio out but I can’t find the problem.

Another radio works in the slot, but because of the layout of the dash, it look hideous. I’ve checked the fuse on the radio, and even tried connecting it directly to a battery to check for power. The Ka has a CAN bus, which means that the radio is switched on with the ignition, but I can’t find any info on what voltage that needs, so I haven’t risked connecting that to anything yet. I’m guessing that the radio has died completely, but a few sites have said that’s very rare, so I’m hoping someone else has an idea. There’s no life at all in the radio, so we can’t enter a code or anything like that.

Cheers dears 🙂

[JayCeeDee]

Can’t find anything that references the voltage, but there’s a few on offer if you type 7355597070 into ebay or your favourite search engine. There is one on Ebay, ( there’s three adverts but they all seem to be the same item ) in Cardiff actually.

See HERE, HERE and HERE.

There’s a telephone number on one of them that might get you the info you need – depends on how innocent/cheeky you can sound.:);)

[JayCeeDee]

12 minutes later and too late to Edit !!!

 

There’s one on Ebay HERE and if you check the middle picture, the label shows 12v 10A, just not which terminals. Can you get a multimeter anywhere near the connector plug??

[Tippon]

JayCeeDee wrote:

There’s one on Ebay HERE and if you check the middle picture, the label shows 12v 10A, just not which terminals. Can you get a multimeter anywhere near the connector plug??

You may have just made me realise that I’ve been a moron! I’ve been using the same wiring diagram on the radio to connect the power, but I’ve been connecting the live to the 30 pin, thinking for some unknown reason that it means 30 amps, therefore power in, even though I’ve tested the 10 amp fuse repeatedly  :wacko:

There may be a happy edit coming soon…

EDIT: Nope! The earth, the 30, and can A & B are the only pins. Can B is just under 1V, and Can A goes from 10.8V to 4.3V when the key is turned, but applying voltages to those pins on the radio does nothing. I’m wondering if the Can voltages should be higher, but for £30 I’m buying the radio from Cardiff. The others I found this week all seemed to be closer to £100 with random accessories, or ‘sold as seen’  :scratch:

Thanks for the links and the help @jayceedee  :good:

[JayCeeDee]

Welcome, glad you got your head around it.:)?

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