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Ive just had delivered my new Car stereo/dvd. its works fine other than the screen is blue " for my safety when driving" i have 5 wires that i have no idea where they go and there is nothing in the manual. I believe one needs either connecting to the handbrake or to ground? any ideas greatly appreciated. The 5 wires are:

P.CNTR
ILLUMI
P.ANT
BACK CAR CONTROL
PARKING CONTROL

Cheers :)
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I would think it's "PARKING CONTROL", needs to be done via the handbrake to be legal
I would think it's "PARKING CONTROL", needs to be done via the handbrake to be legal
Cheers Chris :)
Yh the parking wire is mention to be attached to the handbrake! Mines just wired to the stereo itself. Slightly easier and means my gf can watch stuff on long journeys lol
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Ive just had delivered my new Car stereo/dvd. its works fine other than the screen is blue " for my safety when driving" i have 5 wires that i have no idea where they go and there is nothing in the manual. I believe one needs either connecting to the handbrake or to ground? any ideas greatly appreciated. The 5 wires are:

P.CNTR
ILLUMI
P.ANT
BACK CAR CONTROL
PARKING CONTROL

Cheers :)
On my daughters boyfriends Golf I had a similar problem, this is what we worked out.

P.CNTR - We left this one disconnected (Ours said P-contrl)
ILLUMI - The 'lighting' one on ours just provided a night light for all the buttons. Not sure if this will be the same.
P.ANT - electric aeriel, so you probably wont need this.
BACK CAR CONTROL - On ours there is an option for another rear screen. This could be so passengers can watch but driver cant. We didn't connect.
PARKING CONTROL - Connected to handbrake warning light live.

The instructions that came with the unit were crap, in very bad pigeon english and photocopied!
Good Luck though.
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Yh the parking wire is mention to be attached to the handbrake! Mines just wired to the stereo itself. Slightly easier and means my gf can watch stuff on long journeys lol
I like the sound of that, cheers Phil :)
On my daughters boyfriends Golf I had a similar problem, this is what we worked out.

P.CNTR - We left this one disconnected (Ours said P-contrl)
ILLUMI - The 'lighting' one on ours just provided a night light for all the buttons. Not sure if this will be the same.
P.ANT - electric aeriel, so you probably wont need this.
BACK CAR CONTROL - On ours there is an option for another rear screen. This could be so passengers can watch but driver cant. We didn't connect.
PARKING CONTROL - Connected to handbrake warning light live.

The instructions that came with the unit were crap, in very bad pigeon english and photocopied!
Good Luck though.
Thanks for that :) all explained very nicely, yeh mines in pigeon english too, makes fun reading though :)
pretty sure i just tapped mine into a live wire on stereo...ie illumination wire....great to have in winter steve but pointless in summer...just dont get caught by plod ;)
Ive just had delivered my new Car stereo/dvd. its works fine other than the screen is blue " for my safety when driving" i have 5 wires that i have no idea where they go and there is nothing in the manual. I believe one needs either connecting to the handbrake or to ground? any ideas greatly appreciated. The 5 wires are:

P.CNTR
ILLUMI
P.ANT
BACK CAR CONTROL
PARKING CONTROL

Cheers :)
If you want ill pop over at the weekend and see if i can sort it out if you haven't done it by then
On my daughters boyfriends Golf I had a similar problem, this is what we worked out.

P.CNTR - We left this one disconnected (Ours said P-contrl)
ILLUMI - The 'lighting' one on ours just provided a night light for all the buttons. Not sure if this will be the same.
P.ANT - electric aeriel, so you probably wont need this.
BACK CAR CONTROL - On ours there is an option for another rear screen. This could be so passengers can watch but driver cant. We didn't connect.
PARKING CONTROL - Connected to handbrake warning light live.

The instructions that came with the unit were crap, in very bad pigeon english and photocopied!
Good Luck though.
Had a similar DVD system in wife's old car... think BACK CAR CONTROL was supposed to connect to the reverse lights, so it would switch to the AUX input (for a reversing camera). Could be different on that system of course :)
If you want ill pop over at the weekend and see if i can sort it out if you haven't done it by then
All done Marcus, cheers. I followed Phils advice :)

You could still pop over and we can do your roof if you want? :)

We're off to Oz the week after so it won't be until November otherwise.
Handbrake to the Parking Control a connection should be enrolled to the specific function of your partial system to configure.

Hope that helps. :)
Handbrake to the Parking Control a connection should be enrolled to the specific function of your partial system to configure.

Hope that helps. :)
Ah its all clear now Clive :)
Ah its all clear now Clive :)
I write fitting instructions for Chinese electronic goods ;)
Handbrake to the Parking Control a connection should be enrolled to the specific function of your partial system to configure.

Hope that helps. :)

Cant remember yoda quoting that line clive but sounds like him ;)

Its one of the voices i have on my sat nav....'a left turn you must now make'.


The force is still strong on .org
I write fitting instructions for Chinese electronic goods ;)
And Chinese Lanterns :rofl:
Its one of the voices i have on my sat nav....'a left turn you must now make'.


The force is still strong on .org
mmMMMmm. Sith enforcement speed detector I sense.

And Chinese Lanterns :rofl:
Classic.

These ones you mean?

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