Dear All,

Have been gifted a lush Parrot MKi9100 kit for my Stilo as a birthday present, very very very lucky. Had a quick look at proving all was well and it was working etc this evening, light was running out so just connected everything up out bare in the drivers seat of the car.

At this point I will say that I have a standard Visteon CD unit with MP3 readiness. If that makes a difference, im not sure, I have never played with one which had any other type of radio!

So anyway I got everything connected, no new leads requried at all, and the radio switched on afterwards (HURRAH!) BUT nothing at the business end of the parrot. I had a quick shifty and realised that the car harness doesnt have an ignition live. (DOH)

Obviously I need to find one before I can prove all is well with the Parrot, anyone got any bright ideas?

Had a looksie around the forums, some people have suggested the cigar lighter but that is a long way away from the whole mounting area.

I looked at the hazard switch but several wires were coming from there.... didnt want to touch it that quickly.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Yellow

take it from the ignition barrel, esiest place imho...

mzhussein said:

take it from the ignition barrel, esiest place imho...

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The orange one. Switched live 12V+.

:yeahthat:

Ahha! I knew you guys would come up trumps with the answer :worship:

Next quick query... While i have been waiting I was reading the manual.

It suggests that C7 and C8 are + & - sound input for external phone preset AND that C9 provides mute signal for phone. Could this be used with the Parrot wiring harness and if so.... any thoughts on the type of connector? I have tried Googling Stilo Visteon radio connectors but to very little avail.

Many thanks!

Yellow

the yellow duracell bunny said:

It suggests that C7 and C8 are + & - sound input for external phone preset AND that C9 provides mute signal for phone. Could this be used with the Parrot wiring harness and if so....

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They might work if they are analogue signals. I've wired my Siemens M75 complete handsfree carkit to the audio and mute inputs. The Visteon automatically displays "phone" and you adjust the volume, treble, bass etc. like on a CD. Audio on those speakers you select (fader), so the kids in the rear can listen to a grandparent telling a story over the phone.

Here's a foggy picture of that one:

my ICE is pretty much as far away from stadard as you can get...so i doubt i can be much of a usefull input....but i like the idea of the story in the back

brilliant!

mz I am going to shortly branch my audio away from standard... I have a spare pair of 10 inch subs sat in a box in my flat with an amp and a nice large boot.... something is going to give and then I might need your assistance!

Morty thanks for the assistance, its very interesting to look at how you are making it all come together.

I am going to have another look at the wiring tomorrow or Thursday and may post a few more questions then. In the mean time, what did you use to connect your Siemens kit to the connections on the stereo?

Cheers!

Yellow

i wont bite feel free to ask away if/when you want

the yellow duracell bunny said:

I am going to have another look at the wiring tomorrow or Thursday and may post a few more questions then. In the mean time, what did you use to connect your Siemens kit to the connections on the stereo?

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A green mini-iso. Like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Green-6-PIN-M...S_In_Car_Audio_Players_PP&hash=item415401f319
I bought one without the "female", with all connections attached. Don't have a picture unfortunately. But this one looks nice. Just cut and solder (or tape).

Here's the Siemens control unit:



Why a mirror? Picture is taken when trying to look for the screws for the glovebox hinge that broke.

Once again the answers are there! hurrah!

I have heard about the top lid of the glovebox becoming wayward... always close it with the softest touch possible now. Did you ever resolve it?

Yellow

the yellow duracell bunny said:

I have heard about the top lid of the glovebox becoming wayward... always close it with the softest touch possible now. Did you ever resolve it?

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Not yet. Parts are warming up inside the house. It's way to cold to fiddle with this now. But I will fix it.

Just a quick follow up post.... All fitted and happy days

Pretty easy to fit in the end once that ignition live had been found and the wires passed up from the steering column to the stereo enclosure!

Overall very good too, very good volume etc and I would really recommend the Parrot!

Cheers!

Yellow

Fitting a Parrot MKi9200

Hi

Right i have just brought myself a Parrot MKi9200 instead of a new head unit.

i wanted to keep the car original stereo so brought this for the bluetooth/and the use to play my mp3 player.

Anyway does anyone know how to fit one? as i did not really want to pay halfords for the privelage and to be fitted in a week.

i want it now

hope you can help

Re: Fitting a Parrot MKi9200

brought the tool from halfords to remove the head unit and will it move NO not even an inch so tryed the coat hanger idea and still does not want to move.

any ideas people

Re: Fitting a Parrot MKi9200

If you've bought a pair of U shaped prongs, push them in the holes and then push the 2 exposed ends slightly outwards towards the sides of the car and pull the radio out.

Re: Fitting a Parrot MKi9200

We had a thread about this with the last input just days ago. With a successful install. A forum search is what you want.

Done

if the OP would like more tips on removing the radio then try using Search as there is simply masses of info within the Forum

sorry guys just got a little lazy wanted a quick solution

right the prongs i brought were too fat they went in the hole but not the whole way. so i cut the miss's wisk lol that worked a treat.

so now its out and i have found the live connection/speaker connection.
not sure what the yellow one is??? and the space next to that connector

anyway i conected live to live speaker to speaker etc etc turned on a yes have power running throu as my cd player works play cd etc but does not seem to be getting power to the parrot sceen as it wont come on.
i have double checked and tripple checked that the connections are in the right place just not sure how everything else sceems to work other than that screen.

any ideas please

bruders 338 said:

anyway i conected live to live speaker to speaker etc etc turned on a yes have power running throu as my cd player works play cd etc but does not seem to be getting power to the parrot sceen as it wont come on.

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Isn't this the same problem as post #1