hi is there an aux cable that will fit my 2006 panda it has the aux in the menu that will take a usb to play music with the usb flash drives if so has anyone got a link as to where one can be had thanks

I thought the Aux inputs on the stock radios were all analogue, so you could extend them to a 3.5mm headphone plug or a pair of Phono/RCA plugs. Are you sure yours has a USB port?

Was going to post a pic of the label on my own radio, showing the input pins. Thwarted as I haven't made five forum posts yet.

I know it's considered bad form to bump up your own post count to unlock posting rights, but I hope the mods will not mind as my intentions are pure and I have a legitimate supplementary question of my own.

This is the connection label on the top of my 2010 Panda's radio:


The pins marked "AF-L", "AF-R" and "AF⏚" are what I believe to be the Left, Right and Ground (hope the symbol works) connections for something like an external CD changer. There's no USB connection marked. They are on the blue portion of the blue/green/yellow multi-plug.

My own question, by the way, is about the CanBus connections on the A plug at the top of the pic. Does anyone have familiarity with those, especially with regard to fitting an aftermarket radio? Since I don't have any steering wheel controls for the radio or anything fancy like that, I assume the only CanBus data the radio gets will be speed info (to nudge the volume up with speed) and illumination to tell it when the dash lights come on. I gather that you can buy widgets which will read that data off the CanBus and give an output which an standard ISO head unit can use, but they seem to be about £40-£50 and that seems wasteful just for those functions.

If I just leave the CanBus wires disconnected, does anyone know if anything will get upset? Do I need to terminate the bus with a resistor? Or is it important I don't terminate it?

Any experience gratefully received.

been looking at different cables and dont think it will work with a female usb conection think it will only work with phones or ipads so looks like a new head unit with usb already in the head unit

You can leave the can bus disconnected. Speed signal isn't too much of an issue, unless you really like it, and illumination dim with headlights will most likely be plug and play on an aftermarket unit (works fine on my Kenwood with a standard loom adapter)

Asa James said:

You can leave the can bus disconnected. Speed signal isn't too much of an issue, unless you really like it, and illumination dim with headlights will most likely be plug and play on an aftermarket unit (works fine on my Kenwood with a standard loom adapter)

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Thanks for that!

Looking more carefully and comparing with a Google image search for "ISO car radio wiring diagram" I can see that the pins A1 and A3 which are "Can A" and "Can B" on my radio are usually used for "Speed Signal" and <no connection> respectively. I had mistakenly thought that one of them was used for illumination, but that's pin A6.

Though my radio has <no connection> on pin A6, my Panda's loom has a wire on it, so it may well be that mine just works like yours did.

Thanks again.

triballofts said:

been looking at different cables and dont think it will work with a female usb conection think it will only work with phones or ipads so looks like a new head unit with usb already in the head unit

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I think you're right.

My plan at the moment is a new head unit with a rear USB, and fit it in a single-DIN slot with a cubby hole underneath. I'm going to link the USB on a short lead to a USB socket mounted in the back of the cubby hole, so a USB-Phone cable can stay tucked in the cubby instead of dangling around.