Toyota car radio <model no: 08600-00808>
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Hello,
I have this car radio (w/ cassete player) from a Toyota, which works
fine. However, I don't know which cable is responsible for what (which
cable goes to the speakers, which to the power source). The plug in the
back of the radio looks like this:
.---------------.
| = = = = = = |
| = = = = = = |
'-----. .----'
'----'
Where each = is a cable coming out. There is also another cable coming
out next to this plug, which is the antenna. I would really love to use
the radio, but I don't know what goes to what. If anyone knows, that
would be great.
Thanks in advance, Jonas.
Kuo Huang
You can spend ten bucks and buy a wiring kit at any car radio shop or
even Wal-Mart which includes the description of what each pin does. The
only problem is that these kits contain the identical connector which is
in your radio, so you can only use it to ID the pins, not to wire up the
radio. For that you'd need the car end of the connector, which is
difficult if not impossible to buy. Your best bet would be to go to a
junk yard and find a car that had the same radio as the one you're
trying to install and cut out its wiring harness. If you're lucky,
someone has already taken the radio and saved you the trouble of having
to removing it.
KuoH
Brad Avenson
If you are brave, you could take the radio apart and see where those
pins come from.
If there are fuses on any of the lines, those are going to be 12V in,
with the larger fuse generally going to go to the line that turns on
when the car does and the smaller going to the line that is directly
attetched to the battery.
The board may be labeled well enough to see which lines go to
speakers. When I took apart a sony, I saw on the board a set of four
driver transistors labeled LF,LR,RF,RR.
And one other pin will be the ground wire.
Of course that wasn't too explicit, but I haven't really taken any
toyota stereos apart.
good luck,
BRad
SOME CALL ME THE BIG BOPPER
>> I have this car radio (w/ cassete player) from a Toyota, which works
>> fine. However, I don't know which cable is responsible for what (which
>> cable goes to the speakers, which to the power source). The plug in the
>> back of the radio looks like this:
>>
>> .---------------.
>> | = = = = = = |
>> | = = = = = = |
>> '-----. .----'
>> '----'
>>
>> Where each = is a cable coming out. There is also another cable coming
>> out next to this plug, which is the antenna. I would really love to use
>> the radio, but I don't know what goes to what. If anyone knows, that
>> would be great.
>> Thanks in advance, Jonas.
I had a similar problem. My Toyota came with an AM radio, and I bought a
Toyota AM/FM stereoradio from a private party (and he had labelled the
pins incorrectly). I went to a local Toyota dealer which had been
advertising that they were open on Saturdays (but hardly anybody was there).
I think that worked to my advantage, because they allowed me to look at
their manuals. My exact radio was not among them, but I had brought
scrap paper, and made a copy of every diagram which looked like the above.
That enabled me to figure out the correct connections.
Another piece of luck was that even though the car had only a single
speaker (because AM), the wiring was already there. I just bought a
matching speaker at the junkyard, and everything fit easily.
If I remember, tonight I will try to see if I still kept the diagram
which did work. I do not have a cassette, but sometimes if you can
figure out what things are NOT, the rest fall in place.
SOME CALL ME THE BIG BOPPER
In article <1998Apr7.164116.1@aspen>, vx70...@woods.uml.edu (SOME CALL ME THE BIG BOPPER) writes:
>>> I have this car radio (w/ cassete player) from a Toyota, which works
>>> fine. However, I don't know which cable is responsible for what (which
>>> cable goes to the speakers, which to the power source). The plug in the
>>> back of the radio looks like this:
>>>
>>> .---------------.
>>> | = = = = = = |
>>> | = = = = = = |
>>> '-----. .----'
>>> '----'
>>>
>>> Where each = is a cable coming out. There is also another cable coming
>>> out next to this plug, which is the antenna. I would really love to use
>>> the radio, but I don't know what goes to what. If anyone knows, that
>>> would be great.
>>> Thanks in advance, Jonas.
>
5 6 7 8 9 10
1 2 3 4
TAB TAB
1 & 5 right front speaker
2 & 6 left front speaker
7 ground
3 12 volts from ignition switch
4 constant 12 volts from dome light fuse (to keep memories alive)
SOME CALL ME THE BIG BOPPER
> Try this, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES!
>
>
> 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 1 2 3 4
> TAB TAB
>
> 1 & 5 right front speaker
> 2 & 6 left front speaker
> 7 ground
> 3 12 volts from ignition switch
> 4 constant 12 volts from dome light fuse (to keep memories alive)
>
Correction to my own posting!!!!
My own diagram, on scrap paper, was upside down from yours. I tried to
be a nice guy, and rotated my diagram about a horizontal line. I now
realize that was wrong, and will give you a picture looking into the
plug which fits the socket. Here is a correction (still with no guarantees).
On mine there is a little notch just to the left of the double-width tab.
TAB TAB
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10
A safer way to at least partially test things would to be to go the
1-5 pair. First, check the PLUG with a voltmeter to see that no
voltage is present. If not, apply a small voltage (maybe using an
ohmeter will be sufficient); if 1-5 are truly connected to a loudspeaker,
you will hear a slight noise. Repeat for 2-6.
If all goes well, you will have correctly identified the speaker
connections, found out the correct orientation of the plug and socket,
and elimated several of the unknown connections, leaving just a
few to be tried or tested (an "exercise left to the student").
It also occurred to me that 8 and/or 10 might be involved with a tweeter
or woofer or rear speaker, none of which I have.