Remove and replace car stereo question

[retiredat44]

Hi,
I have questions about replacing an old Blauplunkt with a new one.

Car is an 1989 Toyota Corolla SR5. When I bought the first Blauplunkt, I removed the original Toyota Radio, and used the wiring harness that came with the new Blauplunkt RPD440 stereo/cd. That was about 8 years ago.
The removable faceplate was built badly and the insides would no long operate the buttons the outside buttons pushed against. Very cheaply made!!

I would like to know is that the first (old) 'Blauplunkt Wiring Harness', (fist one I put i put in 8 years ago), will fit the (new) Blauplunkt Laguna Receiver Radio Car Stereo CD Player. Do the harnesses interchange with the same manufacturer? Just unplug the old and plug in the new?

I stayed with the Blauplunkt just so I don't have to do any, or very little wiring work. The car is old 335,000 miles on it and my health no longer allows me to work on cars. Also, I am not doing any speaker changing, just the stereo itself, my speakers are fine. 4 Polk Speakers. It's just a chaep stereo, that's all that's needed.

Thanx,

[retiredat44]

this forum must have very little traffic...

[retiredat44]

I just went though the whole cut and splice routing an dput in the new radio.. it sucked bals. I would have just bought a new face plate (which was the broken part) but I no longer trused the Blauplunkt face plate, at least for that mode. It is just to cheap and the tits inside the plasctic faceplate buttons, break ff very easily. No more of that BS!
It's just another Blaunkplunkt I put in and turned out it uses a totally different connector, hence the cutting and splicing. My gamble on it being the same connector for the same make radion was a loser. Had I known I would/could have gone with any brand.

Also, the damned metal sides that bolt on and hold the radi on had to be help in place, the new radio did not have screw holes in the side of the radio. Can I say Cluster@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ here?:ugh3: That's what is is, but at least the car has a working stereo now.

[localhost8080]

lol, If i had been on earlier I could have told you that they probably wouldnt use the same connector - I dont even have a stereo in my car - I have a little embeded PC that I use for satnav, and it has an ipod dock in it - I picked up the embedded computer from ebay - It is a navman satnav, which comes with AA satnav software, but it runs windows embedded, so I deleted the builtin satnav, put a 4gb card in it and installed tomtom =) I had to wire an ipod dock to the connectors for the amp - but now I can have my ipod playing hen I drive - all in all about 2 hours work =)

[retiredat44]

This forum is really dead as far as car stereo work.. and anothe rfoum I found is dead too. I suppose no one talks about it until every few years when they have to work on a stereo. Then they pop in to see what's new. This putting in a new wiring harness/connector each time blows. maybe with higher end car stereos they have better plugs/connectors, but for your average am/fm/cd player, it's just the drag of cutting and solderinng each time. You would think the same model maker would have stayed witht the same connectors. Blauplunkt, they only reason I bought the same make again, was because i wa shoping they would use the same connector, but they didn't. After a few year sthey chaged again. Plus they made the metal case cheaper. It no longer has bolt holes int he sides for the metal pieces that hold it in place, it looks like it relies ona rear metal strap, which really sucks because it's close to impossible to hook up the rear metal strap.

What a huge pain in the ass! Bluaplunkt sucks! My wife likes the sound at least.

BTW, after 1 week the cdRom reader stopped reading CDRoms, I had to return it for exchange. Blauplunkt is garbage now. I remember when it was a status symbol. now it's POS!

hasn't been long enough to get the new one back yet... willl inform..