Because if you have a car problem STW seems to be the place to go these days!
I have a mid 80’s car on which the radio doesn’t work. It worked when I test drove it but between then and picking it up the seller fitted a new relay to make the electric windows work and now the radio doesn’t work. I have a suspicion it’s the relay that’s gone, but new relays for these are very expensive (£70) as they also go to the sunroof.
The sunroof was never going to work anyway so I was hoping to wire a new stereo in straight off the battery with an inline 10a fuse and ground it near the fusebox where everything else is grounded. The radio is not connected to the ignition so I can live with it being constant on, removing the face should prevent battery drain.
I wanted to know if the existing stereo used a relay, will I then need to wire in a new relay to make the speakers work, or will this all just go? If it needs another relay I’m not confident I could deal with the rat’s nest behind my dash to find the speaker wires – stuff seems to go in all directions and into places I can’t get to to trace them.
Thanks.