Help with PIE adapter

[HiImBrian]

I am installing a PIE #FRDN-AUX adapter on my 2003 ex, and I need a wiring diagram for it. It tells me I need to tap into my +12VDC battery memory source on my factory connector, but I don't know what wire that is. The wiring diagram they gave me is junk. Can anybody help me? My dashboard is in pieces...

Followed this diagram and used the white/yellow as my 12V source, but still nothing. Any Ideas?



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[Kazer]

I taped into either a purple or a brown wire. It was at the bottom corner of the connector that your dealing with

 

[HiImBrian]

I don't have a wire that color in any of the corners. The white/yellow wire that is there for the +12V constant was only putting out 8V, so I ran a longer wire to a 12V I had in my center console; still doesn't work. The 8V may have messed the adapter up, so I'm going to call PIE on Monday and make them figure it out...lol.

 

[Triton8273]

Ok i tried to look it up but what is the exact purpose of a PIE adapter?

 

[Kazer]

Its a little box that you splice into your factory radio to give you an auxiliary input cable for use with you mp3 player/phone music player. I had one but didn't like it so I just bought an aftermarket radio


And brian, you know you have to hit the cd button twice to enter aux input mode?

 

[HiImBrian]

Yeah, it just says NO CD.

 

[briwayjones]

Do you have a link to the model PIE you have? I didn't have to do any wiring to install and use my PIE adapter. It just plugs in and away you go.

 

[HiImBrian]

Do you have a link to the model PIE you have? I didn't have to do any wiring to install and use my PIE adapter. It just plugs in and away you go.

http://www.pie.net/index.php?option...ge.tpl&category_id=96&product_id=37&Itemid=40

 

[Kazer]

Yeah, it just says NO CD.

yeah thats what mine said when it worked i think

 

[HiImBrian]

yeah thats what mine said when it worked i think

I've read that it should say DJ or CD-1...

 

[briwayjones]

What are you trying to connect using the PIE?

 

[HiImBrian]

What are you trying to connect using the PIE?

Just a 3.5mm jack for my iPhone.

 

[HiImBrian]

Problem Solved: Not really

So it turns out that my factory radio was only put in 03-04 EB Explorers and is not at all adaptable.

Obviously, the adapter I bought is useless and I just sent it back. The logical next step for me is to look into an aftermarket headunit. BUT! I, like an idiot, already drilled a hole and mounted a jack in my center console.

Just in case I can't find an aftermarket headunit I like, all of our 3rd Gen radios should be interchangable, right?

Any recommendations for a good, fairly inexpensive headunit?

 

[Triton8273]

Which headunit do you have?

 

[fled]

Just install cassete player

 

[HiImBrian]

Which headunit do you have?

In-dash 6 disc, no satellite, not cd changer capable.

Just install cassete player

I'm 23 and single, I'd like to get laid again someday...

 

[Triton8273]

So you have the 6disc but it does not have a SAT or AUX button?

 

[HiImBrian]

So you have the 6disc but it does not have a SAT or AUX button?

Nope.

 

[fled]

In-dash 6 disc, no satellite, not cd changer capable.



I'm 23 and single, I'd like to get laid again someday...

Might get lucky with cougers

 

[Triton8273]

Nope.

So this is what you need.