I've moved my stock eurovox Cd player into another car and it's all wired up and working fine except for one annoying thing. There is no power running to light up the display! When I took the unit out of the magna I checked the wires and thought I had everything lined up.

I picked out the wire for the lights and thought that this was enough. It seems though, that this wire only turns off the light on the clock/station display of the unit when the lights are switched on. I think that there should be another wire from the head unit which should be connected to the ignition +ve which will illuminate the lights in the display.

Can anyone help????

when i finished installing my h/u, there were two wires left over from the stock wiring loom, i didn't use on my aftermarket h/u.

i assumed they were either illumniation, mobile handsfree or something like that. I'm pretty sure one of the was wired up to the interior light dimmer. so go find a 12V out somewhere and plug it in, see what happens.

The ILLUMination line should only be for sensing that the headlights are on
so the HU can dim its display for nighttime driving.

There should only ever be 2 points to hookup +ve power for any HU
(1) +ve always on and (2) ACC +ve switched.