Hi Gang, oh and where's a good place to get an ignition switched power supply for my new stereo

[Huw Powell]

>  I've lately fitted a new stereo, and guess
>  what, common ISO connectors are no way a guarantee of compatibility. It
>  appears that the car side connector has no ignition switched 12V suppy.

Typical for VAG cars...

>  Can anyone suggest a convenient place in the dash area to tap
>  into such a supply, rather than actually going all the way to the fusebox?

Well, convenient is relative, but on my 90Q (1989) I found a yellow buss
thing that is the shape of an add-on relay socket attached to the
auxiliary relay panel lower edge.  It has about 5 male pins on the
invisible side (away from the driver) and is used for two or three wires
that are... hot with ignition on.  So I just ran a wire from that to my
radio.

(I'm hoping installing it wasn't my idea in the first place two years
ago, but I think it was stock)

You can actually see it, far left about 1/3 of the way down in this
picture (dashboard out):

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/images/stereo-90-a.jpg

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Huw Powell

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