Thread: Big Thanks to Andy & Paul @ Hard Range

Originally Posted by Remy

wired the stereo into the wheel controls and all works (nice!) - now to see if the chinese stereo works longer than a week

How did you do that bit?

Hi Ron,

The steering wheel puts out an analogue signal with slightly different voltages for each button. I simply tapped the grey/orange wire which is the steering control and then hooked that to the steering control wire on my cheap chinese stereo. Then within the stereo i could press each button and assign it a function. It works a treat and stereo seems to be holding up OK. I am sure there are better quality ones out there with the same function. I am hoping to come to the show on the 25th and can show you if you like. The Nexia kit is certainly a neater option. The other option is to find another stereo which has amp preout rather than an amplified signal. The one that was in my car when i bought it was a clarion like this and wired straight into the speaker wires without the need for an attenuator but most of the stereo besides radio was stuffed.

Cheers,
Remy

I am loving this cheap chinese stereo. Mucking around with the GPS i have managed to swap it over to now opening Oziexplorer or other .exe WinCE navigation programs. Screenshot showing the moving map with a local topo map.