After getting my 308 end of last year, I thought it´s about time to get some music into the car (even though the engine sounds wonderful! ) The CD player that came with the car is dead. I took the CD-player to a car sound company and got it connected to their equipment, it worked perfectly fine. The guy thought it´s probably a fuse problem in my car. I removed the cover on the passenger side and checked all the fuses. They are labelled with descriptions like lamps, instruments, electrical windows but nothing that points to my problem. It´s hardly combined with another fuse since everything else in the car woks fine. Are there more fuses than those 10-12 fuses on the passenger side? Any ideas?
pretty open ended but I suspect it's a wiring problem not a fuse problem. Is there an amp installed? When i replaced my stereo after it went dead I discovered lots of expert wiring done by an expert of course. Once i removed all that and traced the wires that actually make the stereo work I was able to do a clean install. You need a clean copy of the wiring diagram. Paul_308 can help I think.
That could be the problem. When I removed the stereo, there were LOTS of cables. It really was a mess, looked like somebody did some adaptiation to get the connections working for the Sony stereo. Maybe it was never completed och some cable problem.
Stereos and/or amps are often connected directly to the battery for cleaner power. Since most if not all of the stereos in these cars were added later, I would expect some creativity in their wiring. On my car, there is an in-line fuse for the amp (not the stereo) where it connects directly to the + terminal of the battery. It was badly corroded when I got the car, but simple to replace. You might try looking near the battery for some fusible connection. Good luck!
Don't assume the car radio ever actually worked in the first place Very possible it's just plain not wired in correctly from the get-go by a DIY'er who had no clue and just left it that way. Jedi
You say "CD Player". Do you literally mean CD Player (I have one in the engine luggage area) or do you mean the radio? Auxiliary CD players are fused wherever the installer found power and was not likely from the main fuseblock. If you have an amplifier for the radio or CD player (my radio amp is also in the rear), have it checked. Yes. Many 308s had fuses built into the radio harness near the connector. No, there isn't another fuseblock. And if you didn't already learn, the dual 9 fuse blocks are known for bad connections where voltage may be available at the fuse but not at the wire below, which is why Birdman's fuseblocks are the accepted fix.
