Headunit 'memory'

DiscoKandy

DiscoKandy

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Hi,
I've bought a 97 Seat Ibiza as a run around for the next couple of weeks, it didn't have a proper working stereo so I put in an old Sony Radio/Cassete head unit that I had lying around. It all works fine, but as soon as you turn the ignition off the presets and any kind of setting is lost.

Does anyone know how I can solve this ?

Also it has a switch on the back of the headunit saying power options, something like

A - If your car has a ignition power step before starting the engine or something.
B - If your car does not have etc etc .....

I've tried switching it both ways, yet the radio will not switch on till I have reached the final stage on the igintion before starting the car. The old radio powered on even when there were no keys in the ignition. Is it possible to get the Sony to do this too ?
 
ok cool, a friend of mine said that was bad for the ignition coil or something, when having the radio at this stage, a red light appears on the dash with what looks like a coil
 
Thanks for the reply, the only wires where the arial, then a black and a brown type socket, these are called ISO right ? I plugged them into the order they out of the old headunit, brown in the bottom socket, and black in the upper socket.

Any ideas ?
 
Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, but I took my headunit out last night to see if I could swap over the red and yellow cables, however there isn't a yellow cable, I can only see one red one????

I'll see if I can get a photo uploaded later.
 
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