Hi Just wondering how one would wire a head unit up in a mini with no stereo ever having been in the car?

ie wires to power fueses etc? there was nothing in the how to section!
cheers,
- tom

I just ran an active of the accecories circut, put a fuse on that line and earthed it to the shell. Then it is only on when you give the key one click. Someone said this is not the best cos the coil has power if your just sitting with the engine off. If this is corect just tap into the acive of the ignition. then you can have it on with no key... might want to be careful you dont kill the battery though.
The speakers kinda speak for themselves.

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One Lill-Red 1100
A project morris van
One rusty assed delux shell
and a clubby van

usually things like the horn, the headlights, brake light, and ciggy lighter are fed straight from the battery, and if you can locate this feed then that is your POWER for the stereo.
If you can then find the feed for the blinkers, wipers this will be the ACC circuit. Most stereos use both. You will find that you will need an inline fuse (10A) for the stereo power which of course is for 12+ from the POWER circuit of the mini and also a trigger or accessory connection for the stereo which connects to the ACC circuit ... Make sure that you get a very good earth or -ve for the stereo and that you connect all the speakers up correctly. You can tell if they are not. If you can sit between speakers and you can hear each one (left or right) they are not connected properly! If you can hear the sound, but its in the middle of your head then that is correct.

So to speak HAAAAHAHA

thank you so much for the in depth run down and taking the time out to write it for me...
sorry totally new to all things mini... just wondering what an inline fuse would look like? and for the negative where would i run the negative wire from the stereo to exactly? also ACC? accessory? what does that mean exactly?
thanks,
- tom

They are little white (or black) plastic things, with a wire that comes out ether end. I'ts sort of a tube i guess, with a collar in the middle. If you push ether end together and twist them a bit they will come apart, hmmm i think a pic it the best bet



only you dont have the wire out ether end jouining up of course

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One Lill-Red 1100
A project morris van
One rusty assed delux shell
and a clubby van

The earth (negative) wire can run to any bare metal part of the body. Under your dash you should find a whole lot of black leading to one location. A screw, which fixes them all to the body of the car. Hook it up there if you can, if not, most metal objects will do.

If you look under the dash at the back of the ignition barrel you should find 3 red wires coming out of it.. The middle one is ACC/Accessory. Just hook it up to this with an inline fuse. Check your wiring diagram if you have one.