Volvo 480 Club Europe

Finally got round to putting my CD player in at the weekend. I got myself an adapter lead specially for the 480. I took the Volvo VC601 tape/radio out, to be confronted with a connection that looked nothing like the one I bought.

Went round to the local Halfords, and got their fitter to take a look. He identifed it from its shape, got me the required part. It was designed for 1990's Fords and Vauxhalls! No mention of any Volvo whatsoever! Absolutely bizarre.

Is this a well known weirdness, or am I missing something?

Exactly what I found. Best to just take a look at the leads out of their boxes. I have a ford - sony lead for my volvo - alpine. Makes loads of sense. No really! I even found a few of the leads to be the same but priced sometimes double...????

pol

That's just madness! It's taught me to have a good look at what is actually there, rather than what should be there.

Still, I now have a spare AUTOLEADS-PC2-43-4 ISO wiring harness. If any one needs one, its yours for the cost of postage.

http://thebassbin.co.uk/shop/product_li ... ness-.html

My sony came with an iso/sony lead, and that plugged straight into my 480, and then straight into my rover...

@JohnTurbo: your 480 probably had the VOLVO-ISO adapter already installed by a previous owner I suspect.

@everyone: what's this:
http://thebassbin.co.uk/shop/product/pr ... /1675.html
Does this mean you can hook any audio-device to the CD-changer (DIN) port on the back of a Volvo radio??

My volvo radio IS iso. Its the model vc602. I know this because i plugged it straight into my rover for a while.

Its a tape deck with rds and ta.

Hi, I've just got a new radio, and need to fix it to a 480 (which currently has a vc601), so, Pol or Scuffer... do you know what the part number/specification is for the adapter lead that I need?

I'm searching google for an answer and got directed back to the forum!! I want to fit a VC602 back into an 87 ES but the loom I've got doesn't seem to be the right one. I get the picture about Halfords identifying the correct one as being from 1990's Vauxhalls or fords but I could do with knowing exactly which one it is that I need. Can anyone please advise?? Even a picture would be good if someone wouldn't mind pulling their cd player out and getting a shot of the connections. Cheers

Got the correct harness (special order from Halfrauds) and it turns out that it's the same as from the 300 series car. If only I'd known that before!!