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Gripe: Hate when sites charge for manuals

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Trey22

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I sold my Jetta, in which I had installed a nice Alpine deck.

I found I had the original head unit, but just the bare unit... no wiring harness. I've had a heck of a time trying to test this on my bench to see if 1) it still works, and 2) if so, I can Ebay it and use the $ to take the wife to dinner.

I just hate paying for electronics manuals, just because it's an OEM product. I found a site or two that has the manual available, but heck if I'm dishing out $ for instructions.

Would anyone with car audio experience be able to help out. This is what I have:

http://www.carstereohelp.com/i...agenStereo04210701.jpg
 
What year Jetta? If it's remotely recent then chances are that the power-on signal is sent through the CAN-bus, rather than just a power wire and you won't be able to easily bench test it.
 
Make a trip to the VW dealer. Odds are, they'll print pages out of the manuals there for you. Minimal charge at most.

I used to go to the local dealers all the time for stuff like this. Why buy service manuals you don't need when most dealers are pretty accomodating?
 
2005, older body model. I had tried powering it up using the +safe and gnd pins. No go.

On the 16 pin connector, it does have CAN BUS L and CAN BUS H, along w/ KI.30, alarm, AMP ON, mute. Other 8 connects are speaker connections.
 
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