Re: Utterly useless Scirocco trivia...

[kdbinney@juno.com (Kyle D Binney)]

In 92, the post scirocco years VW began wiring the stereo through the
ignition.

Kyle

On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:43:23 -0400 Dan Wolfson <wolf@gate.net> writes:
>Dale D. Baker wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Ryan Schuermann wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > > Son-of-a-gun! it does work. (Ya, im lame, I tried it.) But why?? 
>Anybody
>> > > know?? I mean, it would be nice to have an ACC setting on the 
>ignition switch
>> > > so I could listen to the radio with the engine off, but this is 
>a little on
>> > > the rediculous side! Oh well, it was fun for a while....
>> >
>> > this is why you loop the orange wire to the red wire in the back 
>of
>> > your head unit. i can listen to my radio anytime I want.
>> 
>> Mine is the same too...whoever had it before me did the same and i 
>can
>> listen to my radio at anytime.
>> 
>> Dale
>> > --
>
>I was under the impression that the radio was wired like this from VW. 
>
>My 
>87 16v still has the factory radio/speakers (never been touched, 
>I swear it!) which is directly connected to 12v.  I've never seen 
>a Scirocco where the radio was connected to the ignition.  Some
>radios have a hard time with this configuration (Alpine) because the
>LCD panel stays illuminated 24/7 and eventually lets go.  I had this
>problem
>in my 82, and I had to put in a switch to control it.
>
>Dan
>---
>87 Scirocco 16v
>& Girlfriend has identical car to boot
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