Defender Radio Fitting... Help

[Sam Thompson]

I'm crap at electrics, always have been. So it's probably not wise that at some soon I'm going to fit a cd player to the truck, I'm sick of playing "guess the rattle". It has never had any form of audio, and I'm going to fit a cd and radio, so need to sort the aerial out too.

 

I need to install an aerial (how, and where do you get them from) I assume the best place is in the front wing, drivers side?

 

How to you run that to the head unit?

Where is the best place to put the speakers (90 Hard top)?

What are good speakers to get?

 

 

Cheers lads!

[jrose]

I did this about a month ago with my 110 pickup. It's a very bodged job, as is anything I do that involves machinery/electrics!

 

My speakers are just behind the middle seat, wedged in between the rear bulkhead in a box I knocked up out of ply. Can't really remember much about them, they say JVC and cost 15-20ish quid?

 

Wire going from them to the head unit, each speaker has 2 wires coming from it you need to make sure the wire with the black stripe down the side goes in the right hole or I think the world ends

 

My head unit is resting on top of the cover for the ciggy lighter in the tray thing, one wire goes straight to battery positive (with fuse in the line) for power, as I gave up on the tangle of wires that were in place! Another wire for earth, I fixed this to the nut holding the fusebox onto the bulkhead. Again, I think you need this one or electrickery goes all over the cab.

 

After sorting all this, I couldn't be arsed with the arial and so I jammed a bit of spare speaker cable into the back of the head unit, and draped it up and around the sat nav cradle, seems to work pretty well.

 

Hope this helps,

Joe

[jrose]

by the way, I'm glad to hear someone else plays the "what's that noise" game in their truck! Have you progressed to "what's that smell" yet

[liamjordan]

if you still at college when i get back from Sweden i'll show you where my speakers are, hard to explain, but there in the foot wells next to the door, by where the heater port, was a pain to wind the window up and down before I put some smaller flat speakers in. Before my aerial got smashed off it was just on the roof in the centre just back from the windscreen

[Sam Thompson]

I did this about a month ago with my 110 pickup. It's a very bodged job, as is anything I do that involves machinery/electrics!

 

My speakers are just behind the middle seat, wedged in between the rear bulkhead in a box I knocked up out of ply. Can't really remember much about them, they say JVC and cost 15-20ish quid?

 

Wire going from them to the head unit, each speaker has 2 wires coming from it you need to make sure the wire with the black stripe down the side goes in the right hole or I think the world ends

 

My head unit is resting on top of the cover for the ciggy lighter in the tray thing, one wire goes straight to battery positive (with fuse in the line) for power, as I gave up on the tangle of wires that were in place! Another wire for earth, I fixed this to the nut holding the fusebox onto the bulkhead. Again, I think you need this one or electrickery goes all over the cab.

 

After sorting all this, I couldn't be arsed with the arial and so I jammed a bit of spare speaker cable into the back of the head unit, and draped it up and around the sat nav cradle, seems to work pretty well.

 

Hope this helps,

Joe

 

Cheers man, i bet mine ends up like this

[Sam Thompson]

if you still at college when i get back from Sweden i'll show you where my speakers are, hard to explain, but there in the foot wells next to the door, by where the heater port, was a pain to wind the window up and down before I put some smaller flat speakers in. Before my aerial got smashed off it was just on the roof in the centre just back from the windscreen

 

Cheers man. Hows living with the fozz?

[Rich2484]

The missis defender has the just above the doors but back a bit in line with seats, closer to the ear so you can hear the music above the car.

 

Arial is on left wing running into cab through bulkhead. Plenty of gromits to go through.

 

Wiring is simple as you need a perminant live from battery, negative to battery and on from ignition, speaker cables go from speaker to radio, should be two of them each speaker nag and pos. or feed and return. And thats about it. No subwoofers or amplifiers to content with.

 

Anyway how you going to listen to cd with all the jumping and skipping the disc will do when travelling?

[Sam Thompson]

Anyway how you going to listen to cd with all the jumping and skipping the disc will do when travelling?

 

Come again?

[mendiplogs]

The missis defender has the just above the doors but back a bit in line with seats, closer to the ear so you can hear the music above the car.

 

Arial is on left wing running into cab through bulkhead. Plenty of gromits to go through.

 

Wiring is simple as you need a perminant live from battery, negative to battery and on from ignition, speaker cables go from speaker to radio, should be two of them each speaker nag and pos. or feed and return. And thats about it. No subwoofers or amplifiers to content with.

 

Anyway how you going to listen to cd with all the jumping and skipping the disc will do when travelling?

HI RICH ref cd player ours do not skip mate thanks jon

[Rich2484]

Ok. Let you off. Lol. Mate fitted a crap one in a series 2a and wounderd why it was skipping in songs. Lol.

 

You don't really need a love from ignition just depends if you want the radio to turn off when the engine gets stopped. Or you would have to turn it off manually.

 

Edit, should be live from ignition. Stupid iPad need to get rid of it.