Thread: Puma Radio

If I was guessing you gave a earth fault - loose or shorting. I don't believe its common fault. You could rewire your earth and power and see if that solves it. Or do the correct thing and inspect the harness, personally I'd at least bridge each of these wires (-/+) one at a time and see which Ines at fault. Should be easy enough to do yourself... I wouldn't pay a dealer considering your vehicle is out of warranty...

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Or of course the unit is stuffed..

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It is possible that the large plug in the back of the unit is not seated properly. This has caused me to have some very odd errors after removing and replacing the unit.

Aside from that one of the current generation Alpine decks that have functioning Bluetooth will fit using the existing harness and are plug and play. Assuming the 2012 models have the same deck as my my16 Puma....


Regards

Tote

thanks guys, are they easy to remove? don't you need a special tool?

I also have a problem with the backlighting in my 1999 TD5 defender so I need to pull that out and soldier in some new bulbs so I assume the same removal process?

Td5 and puma are different to access but both easy. On the puma centre dash console, just undo the screws you can see, put a screwdriver/ knife, paddle behind it and pop it off. May take a lil force.. And you have about 15-20cm of movement to lower it out of the way.. More than enough. Then u believe the radio itself has a small clip on each side you have to push up and then slide the unit out. 1st time shouldn't take more than 15mins. Easy.

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The screws may be a 6 star screw. Super cheap sell small screwdriver kits for under $15 I believe.

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I had a similar issue on mine, but it was an aftermarket head unit.
IIRC, it was a wire behind the dash earthing out. I believe it was the mute wire that silences the radio when the phone rings or something...
I just wrapped some tape over it, and sat down for a beer- Job well done.

To get the centre dash panel out I think it's a T30 Torx, and jimmy it from the corner. I did a bit of a write up here. http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...val-steps.html

The hardest part is being gentle with the clips. Use a soft tool so as not to mar the plastics. You'll need to unclip the clock and some of the switchgear harnesses. They will be trained to a path once they are unclipped, so shouldn't be too hard to put back in their respective places.

Thanks Toxic_Avenger

What is that blue pri tool you are using? Looks pretty handy.