nathan1989
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Hello again, so you may have read I've been fixing up a damaged punto I bought. It is now almost finished. Just needs the tracking doing and an mot.
I do have a couple of other issues though that I need help with.
When I got the car it had no stereo fitted but I got a replacement dashboard which came with a blaukpunkt CD player a proper punto one not aftermarket.
Anyway when I finally get round to doing the stereo I realised the wires had been cut, so I assume the previous owner had an aftermarket stereo and bodged it in instead of buying an adapeter.
So the little black block piece that connects to the stereo is still ther but two of the wires have been snipped. I can't get the pins out to reattach the wires to the pins and then insert the connected pins back in to the little black connector box thing. So I just got some speaker cable and connect the snipped wires to the speaker cable and the fed the other end of the speaker cable into the little black connect box so the metal ends of the pins would touch the speaker cable ends, but that did nothing.
Now the wires that aren't connected anymore are the two separate wires that are in the other half of the block, i assume the other half of the block are just speaker wires? Also though in the bunch of wires for the stereo that are wrapped up in the material there are two thicker wires, one red and I think the other is black I can't remember now. But they don't seem to have a place in that block?
I can take pictures but not sure how to upload them from my iPad but tried to describe it as much as I can.
This may be related to this problem though, when the lights are turned on on the car none of the heater controls light up or any other buttons as in the central locking button and what not, I don't know if they are supposed to to be honest as never seen it all working, but the heater controls I know they do as I put the bulbs back in when I replaced the dash. All the buttons work though as do the heater controls.
The other problem I have is the power steering, when I started the car last night everything was fine, i moved the wheels and the steering was fine and light. Then today I tightened up the not on the steering rod end and then got in the car to see how it was to finally drive. I started the car and reversed out of the car parking space and the steering was stiff? I looked on the dash and noticed a steering wheel light was on. So I pulled up turned the car off and back on again and it was fine again and the steering was as it should be. I then drove round the corner to the petrol station and out some petrol in, again it was fine. I turned the car off filled up and then got back in, i started the car and the steering was fine, I got to the exit of the petrol station went to pull off and the power steering stopped working again and the light came back on? I can't imagine it to be down to the nut I tightened on the rod end, what could it be?
I think that is everything, that I need help with other than that, I need to get an engine under tray and the slam bar that's under the bumper has rusted really badly, so going to replace that too. Oh and the plastic trim where the parcel shelf clips in has broken on one side so need to get a replacement. But that's it other than that the car is fine and drives fine.
Any help would be great, also if someone has a Facebook account I could send them the photos and they could upload them for me or someone could tell me how to post them myself using my iPad? Cheers for now, Nathan.
I do have a couple of other issues though that I need help with.
When I got the car it had no stereo fitted but I got a replacement dashboard which came with a blaukpunkt CD player a proper punto one not aftermarket.
Anyway when I finally get round to doing the stereo I realised the wires had been cut, so I assume the previous owner had an aftermarket stereo and bodged it in instead of buying an adapeter.
So the little black block piece that connects to the stereo is still ther but two of the wires have been snipped. I can't get the pins out to reattach the wires to the pins and then insert the connected pins back in to the little black connector box thing. So I just got some speaker cable and connect the snipped wires to the speaker cable and the fed the other end of the speaker cable into the little black connect box so the metal ends of the pins would touch the speaker cable ends, but that did nothing.
Now the wires that aren't connected anymore are the two separate wires that are in the other half of the block, i assume the other half of the block are just speaker wires? Also though in the bunch of wires for the stereo that are wrapped up in the material there are two thicker wires, one red and I think the other is black I can't remember now. But they don't seem to have a place in that block?
I can take pictures but not sure how to upload them from my iPad but tried to describe it as much as I can.
This may be related to this problem though, when the lights are turned on on the car none of the heater controls light up or any other buttons as in the central locking button and what not, I don't know if they are supposed to to be honest as never seen it all working, but the heater controls I know they do as I put the bulbs back in when I replaced the dash. All the buttons work though as do the heater controls.
The other problem I have is the power steering, when I started the car last night everything was fine, i moved the wheels and the steering was fine and light. Then today I tightened up the not on the steering rod end and then got in the car to see how it was to finally drive. I started the car and reversed out of the car parking space and the steering was stiff? I looked on the dash and noticed a steering wheel light was on. So I pulled up turned the car off and back on again and it was fine again and the steering was as it should be. I then drove round the corner to the petrol station and out some petrol in, again it was fine. I turned the car off filled up and then got back in, i started the car and the steering was fine, I got to the exit of the petrol station went to pull off and the power steering stopped working again and the light came back on? I can't imagine it to be down to the nut I tightened on the rod end, what could it be?
I think that is everything, that I need help with other than that, I need to get an engine under tray and the slam bar that's under the bumper has rusted really badly, so going to replace that too. Oh and the plastic trim where the parcel shelf clips in has broken on one side so need to get a replacement. But that's it other than that the car is fine and drives fine.
Any help would be great, also if someone has a Facebook account I could send them the photos and they could upload them for me or someone could tell me how to post them myself using my iPad? Cheers for now, Nathan.