durhamjohn1973
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I have replaced my factory radio & now it won't work unless ignition is on, what happened to permanent live
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If the factory radio worked without the ignition then the new one is most likely designed only to work with the ignition on or at least on a half turn of the key to stop you draining the battery if you forget to switch it off.
If it bothers you, just run a permanent live feed to it.
If it bothers you, just run a permanent live feed to it.
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It is designed to work with ignition off, problem is it doesn't hold memory now with no permanent live
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Changed + ignition & + permanent over & memory is now sorted
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No idea what that means but glad you got sorted.
Normally a radio will have two live wires. One is continuous live and the other on the ignition. Ignition live will turn radio off with the ignition and the continuous will be remembering radio selections, CD tracks or even the 20 minute mode some radios have when the ignition is off (ignition off override)
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Cheers bud, I hate the wireless & never use it anymore as the buggers on it don't play any tunes, they just keep on yapping.
On a lighter note, back in the day, I had two 1982 Uni-track 750's, red & black one's, they both handled like camels.
Before that, I had a red Uni-track 550 which I loved, had a Harris pipe, K&N's & Goodrich hosing.
Funk me, you could ground the header pipes going around right-hand corners fulla beer coming back from rallies.
Happy memories, me Ma musta been saying some prayers for me back in the 80's.
Missed this thread but on the older scudo just like the Citeron the wiring harness for the stereo has the cables the wrong way around discovered when doing some research on adding speakers
http://dispatchexpertscudo.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7
Thats not the link I originally found but there is another on that forum about it.
Mines was a GS550