cd changer help if poss

[gtlad]

I was given a mk5 armrest cd changer and want to install it into a mk4 golf 02 model where my single cd player is but one problem different connectors and I have been told it can't be done is their a solution or do I have to sell it on ebay.

[Froggy]

If you have a Gamma head unit, with the 20 pin top connector, I think it should plug straight in ??

Can you post a picture up of the offending connections.

[gtlad]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-GOLF-MK5-6-...QQcmdZViewItem
I hope this gets you to the image of the connector it is black connector not the blue geeen yellow one that I think I need their must be a work around

[Sylvester]

Suspect that it won't be a problem, the later cd/radio have the same cd inputs as the gamma but use a different connector. So really all that is needed is a blue plug and connectors and a wiring diagram for the cd changer. The wiring colours may be the same as the single cd but I'm not sure.

Link to cable here this may be what you are looking for to solve the problem

[gtlad]

their is more wire colours on this one than on my single cd player had a check if I could do it myself by changing wire for wire but more colours don't know what to do with the extra colours.Went to car audio shop and said that the old cd changers were made by blaupunkt and new ones by sony but I think he was confused then again I forgot to said that it was in dash fitting not a boot fitting.
will have a look at that cable but hope to find a smaller version of it.If anyone has photos of the blue green yellow connector with a wiring diagram it might help me sort something out.

[Sylvester]

The wiring diagram is on the top of your gamma/beta unit, the cd unit will probably be a sony. How many wires on the multichanger?

[gtlad]

it a black 10 pin connector on the back changer it looks like a little bit like the connector on the boot changer.
if you look at this link you will see what kind of connector I need but I still think their must be adpator that can sort this problem out without being 3mtrs long for the ones for boot changer.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-6-DISC-IN-D...QQcmdZViewItem

hope this helps and someone knows what I am talking about it seems a shame to waste this changer because their is no adpator to make it work.

[Sylvester]

Are all pins used in the connector, 10 or 9 ? 8 of the wires are cd specific and the others will be the illumination wiring. The blue plug has 8 connectors.

[gtlad]

there is 10 wires going into the connector but the connector is number from 1 to 12 so I am going to tell which colour wire goes into which number.

1=brown
2=green
3=white&grey
4=orange
5=blank space
6=yellow
7=red&white
8=red
9=black
10=blue
11=blank space
12=white

hope this help a little bit more their got be adaptor for this. some clever chap out there must come across this problem at some stage and sorted it out I hope.

[Sylvester]

1=cd changer-data in
2=cd changer-data clock
3=cd changer- ground (GND)
4=cd changer-data out
5=not assigned
6=plus connection (terminal 30, B+)
7=line out right
8=control signal
9=cd changer-ground (GND)
10=line out left
11= not assigned
12=cd changer illumination terminal 58d