Changing RDS 7000 EON to TV/DVD.

[bigandgreen]

Hi, I am new to this site and have read some good posts on chaging head units.

I have a 1999 Explorer North Face which is fitted with a FORD RDS 7000 EON radio cassette head unit with 6 disc cd changer in boot and remote controls in rear. The screen has started to fade to nothing hence the change.

I purchased a double din 7" tv/dvd unit which looks great in the slot the 7000 came out of. To make it physically fit i have to cut the small lip (5mm high) at top and bottom of opening (not sides). You have to beware the two screen poking up from the underneath by the controls and they are long enough to scratch the new unit. This lets the new unit slide with ease. Not worked out how to secure it yet but its fairly tight.

The old 7000 stereo has 4 connectors. Looking from the back it has power and speakers on the right with the remote controls on a connector in the middle of these. The 12 pin square connector which has a fuse attached is for the cd changer.

I only needed to use the power and speaker connectors. I bought a connector from Halfords which is a PC2-08-4. This takes the two ford connectors and converts them to ISO. They seem to fit backwards but as one has 7 wires (power) and the other (speaker) has 8 its easy to work out which way to fit them and which way round by the keys (plastic lugs).

I needed to get an ISO aerial plug connector to convert the old aerial plug to the older style for my new unit. Again Halfords had this.
All fitted and tested and it all works well except the power aerial does not go up.

I worked out which wire from the old connector is for the electric aerial and its plug J (see www.installdr.com for cable specs). Using a scotch connector I hooked it up to the new unit power aerial lead.
When I connect this I can turn on the unit and the aerial goes up, turn it off and the aerial goes down.

Here is the problem. When I turn the unit on and the aerial goes up the power does not turn off and the aerial continues to try to go up and make a horrible ratcheting noise. If I turn the unit off it goes back down ok.

Is there something I am missing? How does the explorer aerial work and do I need to do something clever to cut the power when the aerial is up of should I just switch to a roof aerial?

Any help would be great. I may go for a radio/TV amplified aerial if anyone knows of a good one if I can't work this out?

Cheers
Rob

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

welcome rob

 

[bigandgreen]

Just played some more and the aerial actually does cut off after 3-5 seconds of ratcheting when going up and down. I'll just turn up the stereo for now.
Now have DVD/CD, Ipod, Radio, USB input, SD etc etc.

Next job, get the TV working, fit a reverse camera.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! I've moved your thread to the proper section for you.

 

[bigandgreen]

Now worked out that aerial (antenna) is broke. It makes that grinding noise for 30 seconds before giving up when trying to go up or down and has now given up.

I will need to replace this so bought a new electric aerial from my local car stereo store.

Anyone know how to remove the old one?

I eventually fitted a pair of amplified glass mount TV aerials in the boot, one of each side window. Powered from the amp output of the stereo to ensure they are not on all the time and I get 5 analogue TV channels. Quality is not bad but only if you are not driving otherwise the picture starts to roll.

Fitted the whole lot for less that £200. Not bad!

6 play CD and remote controls in the rear don't work but who cares when you have an ipod connected to a touch screen. The 7" monitor takes up just about the whole console and looks great. Sounds great too.