ICE Virgin

[SR71]

I have a Blaupunkt Paris RCM 104 (whatever the hell that means) head unit in my car.

Its a DMS unit which as I understand it, will control a CD changer as well. In the xeroxed User Guide I have, it recommends the following Balupunkt units:

CDC-A03, CDC-F03 or CDC-A05.

Knowing absolutely nothing about ICE, is it just as simple as buying one of these Blaupunkt CD Changer and plugging it in?

Ignorantly.

J

[S2 Ant]

Yes

[SR71]

OK Ant...

I've got a CDC-A03 now - 5 ebay auctions later! Now I know why I need an auction sniper!

Next question...

What is the best way to route cables from the head to the changer in the rear?

Anyone got a how-to for that?

[Jamo]

The quickest and most direct route is to follow the transmission tunnel, under the rear cushion and then direct the wire either left or right round the side of the seats (theres a hole) into the boot.

[Fat Audi 80]

The quickest and most direct route is to follow the transmission tunnel, under the rear cushion and then direct the wire either left or right round the side of the seats (theres a hole) into the boot.

Doesn't that mean you need to take the carpet up or is there an easier way. Do you take the seats out to do this?

Cheers,

Steve

[Jamo]

If you take the centre console out and the rear ashtray and the rear seat cushion out (3 screws!!) you don't have to take any carpet up let alone the seats.

It's dead easy, took me about 20 mins to run a new RCA cable down this route.

[Fat Audi 80]

I had never thought of that! I took all the sill covers off one side of the car to run rca speaker cables in the car. Doh. Luckily in the superior ABY the battery is in the boot which makes mounting and wiring the amp really easy

[Jamo]

I can't claim all the credit Alistair C used this route originally although it looks like he had the seats out at the time as one set go through the damping material which is only possible with the seats out.

[RustyNut]

Is there a special technique for sliding the centre console over the hand brake lever or am i a div and missed something obvious??

R.

[Jamo]

Have you pulled the handle of the handbrake?

The front part pulls of then the back bit slides off.

[RustyNut]

Thanx Jamo, i'll calm down now!

[Alistair C]

Have you pulled the handle of the handbrake?

The front part pulls of then the back bit slides off.

yeah - it does when some other poor sod has wrestled with it for 20mins the first time it came off!!!

[SR71]

Well after all the good advice here I went to fit my CD changer yesterday thinking I'd have some tunes for today. I thought the idea regards routing the cables along the transmission tunnel was a good one.

No chance. My insulation is glued to the chassis and pulling that up was going to get really messy.

OK. Second plan - back to routing it along and underneath the kicker panel on the left side. Managed to get the unit out - its a fairly old head.

Hmmmm....pulled the adaptors out only to find the unit is a 26 pin one and the changer is a 36 pin one.

B***********************r.

The manual for the head even advised me to get that CD changer! WTF!

So new head or new CD changer?

Then I stumbled across www.bluespot.co.uk who do a cable for converting one to the other. I might lose the random play functionality in the conversion it says. Another £23 down the tubes but at least I can should be able to work with the wiring in the car.

Thing is, when I pulled out the head and inspected the wiring behind, all the slots at the back of the head unit were occupied with their relevant connectors, but there were two additional ones not attached to anything - a red one and a black one.

Any of you ICE gurus give me a clue as to what these might be for?

Cheers.

[Greg_S]

could be a preout if they are RCA sockets