Skyline R33 Spec2

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Il just leave this here 🤣

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It’s kinda the law 😂
 

Captain Starlet

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I may or may not have video evidence of that happening

Il just leave this here 🤣
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The mot guys egged me on to do one in my mr2 turbo when I was 21, gave me the certificate and then the manager came out and threatened to call the policee 😬🤣. Probably didn't help it was ards.

Black interior looks great, makes such a difference.
 

ossy2004

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After 😬🙂 photos make it look abit bright again etc but it’s good in the flesh
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Day off tomorrow, gona fit the interior and fill the tank and enjoy while everyone’s at work and school/Creche!

It was meant to be 😅
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fresh mot and as off this week fresh insurance for another year.

I’m planning on doing the NC500 in May with this along with a few friends.
 

ossy2004

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Help 🤣
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So my sub/amp wasn’t working, end up there’s 2 sets of RCA’s…. Got it working, put everything back together and all good until I adjusted the gauges below the headunit a slight millimetre and seemed like the head unit shorted and went off.

I’ve checked all the fuses, tried reset on the Sony headunit and checked the connections all looks ok 🤷🏻‍♂️

Help!

I’m now thinking of removing the gauges and putting a double din car play unit in but theres so much connected to the wiring harness it’s not just as simple and disconnecting the two plugs…. Think I need a pro for this 😬

I had planned to just wash & clean the car and got distracted…cars still filthy 😂😩
 

svensktoppen

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The joys of old cars lol 😁 Lord only knows how that's all been wired up by previous owners.

Can't see how the gauges would affect the audio? Other than physically moving or touching a bad wire or connector to cause a short... It does look like a bit of a nest there :innocent:

It's an import, right? They usually have all sorts of random taps off the audio harness behind the head unit for all their toll transponders and whatnot. Could be one of them left in there that's shorting out against some bit of metal connected to the chassis, for example, once it's all packed in behind the head unit.
 

ossy2004

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It’s spaghetti junction.

Nothings ever straight forward lol

Anyone close to Newtownabbey that could look at this who knows this type of thing? Been a while since I done this type of carry on
 

johnm

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If you moved it a touch just there I'd say its juat a bad earth in there somewhere. Have you check every connection, and as far back as possible where they lead too? Could be a quick fix (not quick finding it though lol!)
 

ossy2004

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I tried a multimeter and think I’m getting 10v or so to the connection that goes to the headunit.

Once you plug it in, you can hear the Ariel go up but the headunit is dead. Unless the remote/ignition wire is fecked but looks ok from what I seen
If you moved it a touch just there I'd say its juat a bad earth in there somewhere. Have you check every connection, and as far back as possible where they lead too? Could be a quick fix (not quick finding it though lol!)

Unsure if the bad earth or whatever has led to the death of my headunit or it’s a bad connection
 

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That looks like a car fire waiting to happen. If it was me I’d be dropping it off at a well skilled audio specialist and asking them to remove the scrap and tidy it all up
 

svensktoppen

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Does look like the usual Jap import mess, mine were both like that.

Have a look around the online car audio places and Ebay, there's bound to be an ISO adapter for your car that hooks straight into the OEM connectors. Then you can remove that nest and bin it.

Also check for and remove/isolate all the other crap they tap off the audio harness back there. Toll transponders, turbo timers, etc.
 

ossy2004

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This is the first I’ve had the headunit out and was kina expecting this to be like that with the amount of different gauges etc but it’s abit over my head with being so much of it and unsure what is for what or even being used.

Would Norman Moore be worth a shout in Newtownabbey if I can’t somehow sort it myself?
 

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This is the first I’ve had the headunit out and was kina expecting this to be like that with the amount of different gauges etc but it’s abit over my head with being so much of it and unsure what is for what or even being used.

Would Norman Moore be worth a shout in Newtownabbey if I can’t somehow sort it myself?
Place in Doagh meant to be very good, just at the start of the Ballymena line

 

svensktoppen

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They're very good auto sparks. Don't know if they do audio but I guess a wire is a wire to them, lol.
 

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My chaser has to go to Norman at NM auto electrics, it will be the same sinario as all my Japanese crap is still wired in and him and only him will be stripping it out and wiring me in a new set up with a high end alarm linked to the central etc.
 

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This is the first I’ve had the headunit out and was kina expecting this to be like that with the amount of different gauges etc but it’s abit over my head with being so much of it and unsure what is for what or even being used.

Would Norman Moore be worth a shout in Newtownabbey if I can’t somehow sort it myself?

Take it to someone proper and don't be soo tight trying to sort that mess yourself :p:cool:
 
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