The factory wiring may use a common ground for the left and right speakers. That's why it only works when you have one ground wire connected. Also, you can now put that storage pocket in the top radio slot, where the original radio was.
The stereo in my pretty simular Peugeot 206 goes through the body module. Is very strangely setup where 12v and ACC 12v are commoned together at the stereo etc. A bit of congenital weirdness, might be the channels are separately fused in the Body module.
I left the stereo there and put the storage pocket under the flap because it was harder to see the radio, plus while my unit has a remote to change tracks it is still faffing about. I will second about the usefulness of the Berlingo just had mine serviced new cambelt etc and the camshaft and crankshaft oil seals because of an oil leak before the mot, a worthwhile vehicle.
This is the most hubnut of hubnut vids for some time, and all the better for it! Bonus points for electrical bodgery as a welcome alternative to mechanical woes...
Music for the Jilted Generation is a truly superb album. Bought that many years ago in Chester. Still sounds awesome to this day. Still have that cassette too...
The reason the rear speakers cut out when you connected them is because one of your rear speaker leads is shorted to ground .This will be the same reason why they didn't work on the old radio .The plug you cut off was wired correctly lol .It's just the radio protecting itself. You have used two sets of full range speakers in the front instead of components .The Radio may not like that because you are running the front outputs at 2 ohms it should be 4 ohms .The output chip in the headunit could overheat especially with the added problem of the rear spesker lead shorted .Thought this might help .
22:46 I found you reaching for the old volume knob whilst holding the new stereo probably funnier than I should of done. Think that's something that might happen a lot 😂😂
You need to pay special attention to the phase of the speakers so the positive of the speaker stays on the positive otherwise it will sound tinny and vague I seem to remember that Citroen has a white wire and a yellow wire to denote polarity so check them all again. If you use a 1.5v speaker the positive connection should pop the speaker outwards if it is correct. All the best Ian 👍
These sort of videos are definitely my favourite. Watching you work out what to do and talk honestly to camera is great. Reminds me of similar projects years ago.
Re travel sickness: a sometimes overlooked feature of the passenger version of the Berlingo is that the rear seat has an elevated sitting position. So kids sitting in the back get a better look of the road ahead, which allows for better coordination between eyesight and sense of balance. It’s also for this elevated sitting position that you get the footwell storage bins, because you have a double floor.
I remember well, sitting there with wiring diagrams, and splicing looms together, getting out the soldering iron and the heat shrink tubing. Long after I graduated from twisting the wires together and adding some electrical tape for insulation. It was always a win when music came out and not the blue smoke.
Fitting a crappy age-appropriate head unit (it was called a SuperTech or something) to a 1988 Mitsubishi L300 with partially chopped wiring (done by the previous owner) was equally interesting. Things were made somewhat easier by the fact that the panel van only had front speakers, so there wasn't all that much wiring. The radio didn't have a clock or anything that required permanent power either. Just a knob for FM/AM tuning and a very poor cassette player, which did exactly the same thing as Ian's, blowing your ears off at the end of the tape. There was also a weird whine induced into the audio by the engine, audible even over the rather rustic diesel engine - the six-seater van has little to no interior sound deadening, it's vinyl floor over metal and mostly bare metal in the back. Still, the head unit had been free and it was better than no radio at all.
Happy days back in 90's of sound offs in the la reserve carpark in Boldmere sutton......MY speakers in the boot of my D reg 213 were that powerful the back seat used to vibrate ...Me and my mate fitted 8 bar graphic equaliser to our cars.......Happy Days....
My partner's daughters (aged 11 and 7) also love 70s, 80s and 90s music from ABBA and Queen to ELO and Annie Lennox, along with a lot of the metal / rock bands their Mum listens to (Metallica, Maiden, GnR, Nightwish, Trivium, BVB, Five Finger Death Punch, Bullet for my Valentine etc.) Not a Nicky Minaj or Nillie Eilish song in sight! Parenting done right, IMHO, and her intelligent and varied taste in music is one of many things that drew me to her. Enjoy your tunes, fitting stereos in old cars is always a PITA because every manufacturer seemed to have their own way of doing things. (Ever tried it in a Volvo 240 or 740 where the front speakers are powered by the head unit and there's a separate, DIN-connecred amplifier for the rears? Good times!)
Ian, instead of using the old HU as a dummy, install the small compartment you removed from the current HU's hidden location. Thus you'll gain a useful spot for phone, etc.
Another top video Ian. I can completely relate to adding or changing stereos to my cars back in the 80's. Adding speakers to replace the standard single horn that sat in the middle of the dash. No standard cable connectors but with deft use of a soldering iron mostly the new head units worked right away (sometimes mounted in a one off fabricated bracket, a piece of bent and drilled metal strip and some self tappers) and some half decent sound was achieved. By the time the job was done there were small concerns as far as any need for a skin graft to fix the sliced hands and fingers from hidden metal parts behind the dash etc. Oh those memories, happy days.
My only stereo installation job so far involved plenty of choc blocks, one already in the car, courtesy of the previous owner. There was no head unit when I started working on the van because when my dad bought the car he haggled on the price and got a reduction by having the seller keep the stereo. So most of its 24-year life the poor van drove with a hole in the dash and some loose wires.
this is the HubNut I love, tinkering, something not working, tinkering, scratches head, much tribulations later and solves it. Good on ya Ian, The Hublets will be pleased.
I always used to do stereos myself too. Had some failures but soon managed to work it all out. The availability of the converters for the wiring to match the stereo to the car wiring is handy, especially if you get the right ones and they work properly. The same goes for the speakers. These days though I have found that I get a much better result by paying a chap to do it for me instead.
Back in the 60s my dad had a Phillips record player in his car it front loaded like a cd player Watch out for the speaker covers on the front doors mine were always falling off
I seem to remember the reason the special AEC Regent MK5 double chassis was used because the double decker chassis gave a lower roof line than the single decker chassis
The speaker wiring oddness is because Berlingo's use common earth for the speakers for some obscure reason. I used to fit stereos for a living and there was a special adaptor for that very issue available that was powered! As a result you have to watch the phasing of the speakers (it can play havoc at high volumes otherwise) not just for sound quality but earth voltage too.
I bought a VW Polo 1.2 11 months and 10.000 miles ago fitted with 4 Joy road tyres. I was also wary. 10.000 miles later they are still fitted and I cannot fault them. I don't give my cars an easy life. Long experience and many 100 of thousands of miles covered I have to say I probably will replace them with Michelins If and when I wear them out. Food for thought Ian
Thank you for the video, Ian. If only for the retro joy of watching you fiddle with the tabs for the stereo cage. Agree that Goodmans did good stereos. Fitted a quick release model to my 1991 Montego 1.6LX on the morning of the 1995 Canadian GP. Funny how things like that stick in your head.
great video and a practical car, I had the face lifted Peugeot version then upgraded to the Partner Tepee, I love it, put my mountain bike in no problem and all the camping gear, had mine 8 years
Arh yes. My favourite subjects. Head units and Citroen's. The wiring is never what you think it is; it's usually not the way the manual says and quite frankly it is a miracle you've got any noise out of it at all. Well done Ian. I'm sure the kids will enjoy their banging tunes.
For the red yellow wire swap, a tiny flat blade screwdriver will compress the barb on the wire receptacle and allow it to be pulled out of the connector block to avoid the need to cut the wire.
I changed the speakers and head unit in my wife's Xsara Picasso last year, bought a Pioneer kit for the Xsara Picasso from eBay that came with adapter cables for the speakers. Sounds much better since the original speakers had disintegrated.
Those South Wales Regents were built to squeeze under 9ft bridges in Llanelli docks. By 1963 the only single-deck chassis available were underfloor-engined and thus too high. Nice to hear the screaming AEC synchromesh 'box.
Another great video from Hubnut. This time we have treated with a audio tinkering session with added vintage Bus footage. I am glad that your tinkering sessions with the Berlingo are progressing very well & are improving the car for you to enjoy.
Late 80’s early 90’s as an apprentice the pdi on new Citroen ax cars required the fitment of Phillips stereo and speakers to be fitted, loved doing that to those. Cracking video as per usual 👍🇬🇧
Love the Fact you Started with Stereo, rather than Oil/Filter, Tyres, Spark plugs and other some such issues..! I suppose a Good Stereo is important to Drown out Hublett's and unwanted Enging, Drive Train or Suspension knock Noise..! Love the Laissez faire Attitude in keeping the Belingo going.! Good sound whilst waiting for the AA recovery truck..! Very important..! Which will help the Nippers, in not loosing their Shizzle's. Very HubNut Logic..!! Thumbs up by me..!! Cheers kim in Oz. 😎
Two things I learnt from doing mine when I changed the old cd unit for a later one, firstly the front speaker wiring is paired on both sides so you can run the speakers off the same four feeds, you have two wires on each side that are doubled in. Secondly have a multi meter ready to check which is the live power feed as that will not be obvious and will result in a radio that does not hold time or settings. The other thing is apparently that the ariel mounting point within the roof space can go rusty and does need a clean up at times to improve the signal. My 02 plate Berlingo gets a good strong signal at times but it is very suspectible to signal fade due to geographical obstruction and also the ariel lead itself can require an adapter to achieve the best port fit for the radio.
When I was a student 40 years ago! and 'borrowing' my Mum's 1970 Rover P5B Coupe 3.5 litre, I fitted a stereo radio cassette in place of the radio it had. I wired it in in the college car park and the first cassette album I tested on the unit was New Music's album 'Anywhere', the first track being 'They all run after the carving knife' the first 35 seconds intro of the track make it sound as if your stereo is faulty, playing slow and muffled, heart stopper, just my luck as a first track to test. The Rover had a speaker above the stereo & one central rear speaker below the parcel shelf, with a fader control and rear footwell heater fan control on the rear floor so I had front to rear rather than left to right stereo! My next car was a fantastic Rover 3500s manual P6, with a speaker in each door that with its webasto full fabric sunroof, 4x ET hearests and V8 engine that was a stunning car with music to match
I think everyone over 50 would have had a cassette deck in their car and bought big speakers to sit on the rear parcel shelf. I expect everyone had a stereo stolen as well! Mine was stolen from my MK1 Escort. My brother's from his 1973 mini ( bought in 1985). Best of times,driving with your mates in the car playing your new album recorded onto C90 tape and all singing along. Great fun as always Ian 🙂
I fitted my first new stereo for several years recently and was surprised at how tiny it was with no cd or cassette space required. When you were in the back fitting the rear speakers 5:20 I noticed the back seat with its headrest elevated looked like a Star Wars character… 👍🏻
Happy days watching this and I remember those tiny rear speakers from our Berlingo when our boys were very small. They insisted we never parked it near their school or friends. A Green as aerodynamic as brick French Van with windows was not even then considered cool. Been driving with our Niece in her little 1.2 Corsa. She just passed her test and that little car has an amazing stereo plus a little iPad sized display screen. Our old Berlingo had a cassette as well….How many young kids now would even know what a cassette is?
You should have gotten the RED one. Just hum 'Postman Pat', and suddenly it's the coolest car EVER! (In fact, the post here in Norway used a fleet of Peugeot Partner, many even 4x4 Dangel editions, to deliver the mail until not too many years ago. They may have a few left, still)
So pleased the Berlingo is behaving and responding to your ministrations. If it were one of MY cars, it would see this as an opportunity to bring more things that need replacing to my attention by making them fail. I too have had sporadic success with the so-called 'adapter' looms. Sometimes they work fine, other times they have wires that the stereo does not or vice versa.....or like the one you showcased, decide that working as they were meant to is just too hard. Sometimes the little tines inside them need a tweak, but often one still has to resort to the tried and true small bank of plastic screw-in-to-join-up-wires block and some insulation tape or shrink-wrap joins. Honestly, you'd think that since they've been making car stereos for aeons that they would have figured out a standard for ease of installation of after-market units.....but that would be akin to something similar to a public service - and that's Just Not Done. Loved the sound of the gears on that old bus, mate. Reminded me of the buses I used to get home to the little seaside village I lived in as a kid from where I worked in the big city when I first started work back in 1985. They were big old Bedfords with the huge straight 6 and a manual gearbox that seemed to be only once removed from a crashbox. It had a lovely sound to it and all and more than once I fell asleep listening to the whines as we went up and over the hills, stopping every so often and would then have to walk home from the bus station instead of my normal stop! The wipers on those old buses were independent and some had the driver's one at the top and the kerbside one at the bottom, so there was really no synchronisation between them at all, but that's what made them fun to watch. Those old wiper motors had a sound all their own too.... The bus also had a speedo that went up to a max of 35mph and I remember on one trip, listening to this quiet but regular pinging noise about once every half second every time we got moving, so peered over the driver's shoulder to see what it was and movement on the speedometer caught my eye. He'd start the old bus off and the speedo needle would start to bounce and once she got to about 10mph, the needle was swinging wildly in a full sweep from 0 to 35 and hitting the stopper at each end. That was my pinging noise! Anyway, written enough now. Glad the Berlingo is working out, It's early days yet, but sounds like she could be a great fit - especially if it avoids certain undesired travel-related issues with the Hublets. My eldest suffered greatly with motion sickness as a kid and we discovered that by putting her in the front seat so she could easily see outside the car in multiple directions (and seeing forward being the one that causes less disturbance of The Force), our family travelling experiences were virtually devoid of explosive encounters of the child kind. Travelling in the darkened evening was still not good, but if it were after 8pm and she was tired, she would often fall asleep, so issue resolved itself. Now 21, she still suffers from it when a passenger, but it is less of an issue.....and no issue at all when she is driving. All the best!
Iv been using citreon vans and dealing in parts for over 20 years and those 2.0 hdi units will run forever as long as they are serviced REGULARLY. That means all fluids and ALL filters. And they really do benefit from having good decent engine oil put in them, not cheap crap!!! And it's always worth flushing the coolent system and refilling using something like Halfords advance antifreeze, that's the red stuff. Do all those things and your van will love you for it and you'll be able to drive it for years to come....🙂
My 96 Honda Legend has a cassette player and I just used a Bluetooth transmitter that fits in the ashtray and it sounds great. Even has a sub and amp, sounds clear. The transmitters have come a long way.
Good call to change the Joyroad tyres - I had some on my Berlingo van and they were terrible. Very little grip in the dry and frankly scary in the wet!
Years ago a friend thought all tyres were the same and fitted the cheapest to their van. Then, for some reason now forgotten, a set of decent Michelins were put on it and they were staggered by the improvement.
Worryingly competent! With family space and that sort of mpg, it really seems ideal for your needs. There is a white Berlingo that lives just up the road from me, and that has silver steelies with wheel trims. Looks good. One small "mod" that I might be inclined to do, is to replace the interior lights with LED modules. Especially the ones over the load compartment. It just makes life so much easier in the darker months of the year, when moving stuff in and out of the vehicle. LEDs are so much brighter.
Hi Ian, I'm not sure why your videos are so compelling and enjoyable. You just seem so likeable. If I ever get to Wales from here in New South Wales and I bump into you I'll try not to assume we know each other even though it feels like I do.
Taking me back to when I updated my stereo in my Fiat Regatta in the mid-nineties. Sony head unit and Goodmans parcel shelf speakers for some bassy sounds 🙂
You have just taken me back to changing the radio in my Talbot Horizon to one that had a cassette player. There was no standard wiring in them days so a lot of guess work. But it did only have two speakers at the front.
Hi Ian for future use, iso type head unit blocks a straighted paper clip or similar tool will easily enable you to swap the pins over in the plug housing by releasing the simple locking tang. No need to snip and chocbloc.
I bought not so long ago on Alie some tools to remove pins if needed in connecter, very useful, about or under 10 euro's when I bought it. Chockbloc in a car is a no go unless you are testing it first.
Rewiring for idiots - use an adapter loom. Lovin' it. The days of using block electrical connectors to rewire a radio are well and truly over, along with soldered pipe connections.
Congrats on the end result, I can imagine your frustration with that connector block but it was lovely to watch the whole process. I like cassettes in cars as well but do find the rattling noise that unused ones make while driving extremely irritating.
Or as James May would've put it: "A banging stereo for me tunes"
I love this channel so much. It’s so wholesome and normal. No shouty nonsense or clickbait
Yeah totally agree, wholesome and down to earth fun!!!!
The factory wiring may use a common ground for the left and right speakers. That's why it only works when you have one ground wire connected. Also, you can now put that storage pocket in the top radio slot, where the original radio was.
The stereo in my pretty simular Peugeot 206 goes through the body module. Is very strangely setup where 12v and ACC 12v are commoned together at the stereo etc. A bit of congenital weirdness, might be the channels are separately fused in the Body module.
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I left the stereo there and put the storage pocket under the flap because it was harder to see the radio, plus while my unit has a remote to change tracks it is still faffing about.
I will second about the usefulness of the Berlingo just had mine serviced new cambelt etc and the camshaft and crankshaft oil seals because of an oil leak before the mot, a worthwhile vehicle.
@@rimmersbryggeri Pretty par for the course with CANBUS cars, the CAN tells the Radio when the car is on or off.
This is the most hubnut of hubnut vids for some time, and all the better for it! Bonus points for electrical bodgery as a welcome alternative to mechanical woes...
Best kind of Hubnut episodes are those where you have to remind yourself that he must survive it because otherwise it wouldn't have been uploaded.
Music for the Jilted Generation is a truly superb album. Bought that many years ago in Chester. Still sounds awesome to this day. Still have that cassette too...
Same here... I guess that means The Prodigy is now officially old farts' music. 🤣
Strangely therapeutic watching someone fitting an old head unit! Takes me back to my youth and I too have happy memories of a Goodmans head unit!
+1 for the Prodigy album comments. Stone cold classic.
The reason the rear speakers cut out when you connected them is because one of your rear speaker leads is shorted to ground .This will be the same reason why they didn't work on the old radio .The plug you cut off was wired correctly lol .It's just the radio protecting itself.
You have used two sets of full range speakers in the front instead of components .The Radio may not like that because you are running the front outputs at 2 ohms it should be 4 ohms .The output chip in the headunit could overheat especially with the added problem of the rear spesker lead shorted .Thought this might help .
Yes safer to put then in series to give 8 ohms
22:46 I found you reaching for the old volume knob whilst holding the new stereo probably funnier than I should of done. Think that's something that might happen a lot 😂😂
You need to pay special attention to the phase of the speakers so the positive of the speaker stays on the positive otherwise it will sound tinny and vague I seem to remember that Citroen has a white wire and a yellow wire to denote polarity so check them all again. If you use a 1.5v speaker the positive connection should pop the speaker outwards if it is correct. All the best Ian 👍
Just for clarity, Mike means a 1.5v battery 👍
There are phase testing videos on TH-cam. Very useful for checking phase.
This is HubNut you are talking to, grateful to have sound coming out of the speakers above the noise of the engine never mind niceties of phases 🤣
These sort of videos are definitely my favourite. Watching you work out what to do and talk honestly to camera is great. Reminds me of similar projects years ago.
Re travel sickness: a sometimes overlooked feature of the passenger version of the Berlingo is that the rear seat has an elevated sitting position. So kids sitting in the back get a better look of the road ahead, which allows for better coordination between eyesight and sense of balance.
It’s also for this elevated sitting position that you get the footwell storage bins, because you have a double floor.
They can see out of the side windows too, unlike many modern cars.
I remember well, sitting there with wiring diagrams, and splicing looms together, getting out the soldering iron and the heat shrink tubing. Long after I graduated from twisting the wires together and adding some electrical tape for insulation. It was always a win when music came out and not the blue smoke.
This brings back memories of fitting aftermarket stereos to my 106, my 306s and my Rover 400. Much bodging is required with French electrics.
Fitting a crappy age-appropriate head unit (it was called a SuperTech or something) to a 1988 Mitsubishi L300 with partially chopped wiring (done by the previous owner) was equally interesting. Things were made somewhat easier by the fact that the panel van only had front speakers, so there wasn't all that much wiring. The radio didn't have a clock or anything that required permanent power either. Just a knob for FM/AM tuning and a very poor cassette player, which did exactly the same thing as Ian's, blowing your ears off at the end of the tape. There was also a weird whine induced into the audio by the engine, audible even over the rather rustic diesel engine - the six-seater van has little to no interior sound deadening, it's vinyl floor over metal and mostly bare metal in the back. Still, the head unit had been free and it was better than no radio at all.
The forever philosophy of hubnut, bought big speakers hopefully they fit! oh and those single decker busses look really fantastic.
That's my kind of 'stereo' installation, the cut and shut of the audio world. A set up to be proud of.
Happy days back in 90's of sound offs in the la reserve carpark in Boldmere sutton......MY speakers in the boot of my D reg 213 were that powerful the back seat used to vibrate ...Me and my mate fitted 8 bar graphic equaliser to our cars.......Happy Days....
You’re doing a fantastic job Ian - both car as well as kid wise ☀️🙏
Thats very kind of you saying you like our company. Nothing is as simple in life as you think in my experience. Top work Ian
My partner's daughters (aged 11 and 7) also love 70s, 80s and 90s music from ABBA and Queen to ELO and Annie Lennox, along with a lot of the metal / rock bands their Mum listens to (Metallica, Maiden, GnR, Nightwish, Trivium, BVB, Five Finger Death Punch, Bullet for my Valentine etc.)
Not a Nicky Minaj or Nillie Eilish song in sight! Parenting done right, IMHO, and her intelligent and varied taste in music is one of many things that drew me to her.
Enjoy your tunes, fitting stereos in old cars is always a PITA because every manufacturer seemed to have their own way of doing things. (Ever tried it in a Volvo 240 or 740 where the front speakers are powered by the head unit and there's a separate, DIN-connecred amplifier for the rears? Good times!)
Ian, instead of using the old HU as a dummy, install the small compartment you removed from the current HU's hidden location. Thus you'll gain a useful spot for phone, etc.
Another top video Ian. I can completely relate to adding or changing stereos to my cars back in the 80's. Adding speakers to replace the standard single horn that sat in the middle of the dash. No standard cable connectors but with deft use of a soldering iron mostly the new head units worked right away (sometimes mounted in a one off fabricated bracket, a piece of bent and drilled metal strip and some self tappers) and some half decent sound was achieved. By the time the job was done there were small concerns as far as any need for a skin graft to fix the sliced hands and fingers from hidden metal parts behind the dash etc. Oh those memories, happy days.
My only stereo installation job so far involved plenty of choc blocks, one already in the car, courtesy of the previous owner. There was no head unit when I started working on the van because when my dad bought the car he haggled on the price and got a reduction by having the seller keep the stereo. So most of its 24-year life the poor van drove with a hole in the dash and some loose wires.
this is the HubNut I love, tinkering, something not working, tinkering, scratches head, much tribulations later and solves it.
Good on ya Ian, The Hublets will be pleased.
I always used to do stereos myself too. Had some failures but soon managed to work it all out. The availability of the converters for the wiring to match the stereo to the car wiring is handy, especially if you get the right ones and they work properly. The same goes for the speakers. These days though I have found that I get a much better result by paying a chap to do it for me instead.
Music for the jilted generation is a particular awesome choice
I listened to the CD recently again & forgot how good it was
One of the best albums ever made imo.
Tapes were a massive improvement over vinyl in cars 🤣
As daft as it sounds vinyl was actually tried.
Back in the 60s my dad had a Phillips record player in his car it front loaded like a cd player
Watch out for the speaker covers on the front doors mine were always falling off
8 tracks were even worse than vinyl. “Oh, play that again!” “I can’t.”
Ours had fast forward and "Quadrophonic" speakers posh!
I seem to remember the reason the special AEC Regent MK5 double chassis was used because the double decker chassis gave a lower roof line than the single decker chassis
That was really excellent. So relevant for the older cars that people actually buy.
I believe in this purchase , practical , economical and comfortable , cheap on parts , not hideous to look at , it's a winner in rural Wales .
The speaker wiring oddness is because Berlingo's use common earth for the speakers for some obscure reason. I used to fit stereos for a living and there was a special adaptor for that very issue available that was powered! As a result you have to watch the phasing of the speakers (it can play havoc at high volumes otherwise) not just for sound quality but earth voltage too.
I bought a VW Polo 1.2 11 months and 10.000 miles ago fitted with 4 Joy road tyres. I was also wary. 10.000 miles later they are still fitted and I cannot fault them. I don't give my cars an easy life. Long experience and many 100 of thousands of miles covered I have to say I probably will replace them with Michelins If and when I wear them out. Food for thought Ian
Thank you for the video, Ian. If only for the retro joy of watching you fiddle with the tabs for the stereo cage. Agree that Goodmans did good stereos. Fitted a quick release model to my 1991 Montego 1.6LX on the morning of the 1995 Canadian GP. Funny how things like that stick in your head.
I'd just paint the wheels and leave it at that. The steel wheels go very well with this car.
Wheel trims would look much better than hubcaps too. The hubcaps would look like the commercial van variant
That bus is stunning…love the look 😃
great video and a practical car, I had the face lifted Peugeot version then upgraded to the Partner Tepee, I love it, put my mountain bike in no problem and all the camping gear, had mine 8 years
Arh yes. My favourite subjects. Head units and Citroen's. The wiring is never what you think it is; it's usually not the way the manual says and quite frankly it is a miracle you've got any noise out of it at all. Well done Ian. I'm sure the kids will enjoy their banging tunes.
For the red yellow wire swap, a tiny flat blade screwdriver will compress the barb on the wire receptacle and allow it to be pulled out of the connector block to avoid the need to cut the wire.
I changed the speakers and head unit in my wife's Xsara Picasso last year, bought a Pioneer kit for the Xsara Picasso from eBay that came with adapter cables for the speakers. Sounds much better since the original speakers had disintegrated.
Those South Wales Regents were built to squeeze under 9ft bridges in Llanelli docks. By 1963 the only single-deck chassis available were underfloor-engined and thus too high. Nice to hear the screaming AEC synchromesh 'box.
Another great video from Hubnut. This time we have treated with a audio tinkering session with added vintage Bus footage. I am glad that your tinkering sessions with the Berlingo are progressing very well & are improving the car for you to enjoy.
The old bus would make a lovely camper 👍👍👍👍👍
Surprisingly successful for a HubNut fiasco video. All working, nothing broken and banging choons available in the Berlingo.
Late 80’s early 90’s as an apprentice the pdi on new Citroen ax cars required the fitment of Phillips stereo and speakers to be fitted, loved doing that to those. Cracking video as per usual 👍🇬🇧
Best title for a TH-cam video, ever.
That single decker double decker is delightful!
Really enjoyed this. My favourite but was the cut back to the front seats revealing absolute stereo / wiring / tools chaos.
I like the interior trim colors. Nice color combo.
Love the idea of a crap decoy stereo.
Watching this video brought back happy memories of cramming an amplifier/graphic equaliser into the centre console of my mk 1 fiesta......
Love the interior colours.
First time I've watched a 24min video of someone changing a stereo. Nice one 👍
Love the Fact you Started with Stereo, rather than Oil/Filter, Tyres, Spark plugs and other some such issues..!
I suppose a Good Stereo is important to Drown out Hublett's and unwanted Enging, Drive Train or Suspension knock Noise..!
Love the Laissez faire Attitude in keeping the Belingo going.!
Good sound whilst waiting for the AA recovery truck..! Very important..!
Which will help the Nippers, in not loosing their Shizzle's.
Very HubNut Logic..!!
Thumbs up by me..!! Cheers kim in Oz. 😎
I ran Joyroads on my 2011 Mercedes GL450 for 20,000 miles. Perfect!!
Fun fact, these Berlingo's are still on sale in Argentina, albeit in facelift form. Loving the Berlingo content.
Two things I learnt from doing mine when I changed the old cd unit for a later one, firstly the front speaker wiring is paired on both sides so you can run the speakers off the same four feeds, you have two wires on each side that are doubled in.
Secondly have a multi meter ready to check which is the live power feed as that will not be obvious and will result in a radio that does not hold time or settings.
The other thing is apparently that the ariel mounting point within the roof space can go rusty and does need a clean up at times to improve the signal. My 02 plate Berlingo gets a good strong signal at times but it is very suspectible to signal fade due to geographical obstruction and also the ariel lead itself can require an adapter to achieve the best port fit for the radio.
So happy you're all loving the lingo
Wow! That was so much easier than the ones I put in my cars way back when. Nice Job!
The speed and way you worked those bent coat hangers into that old stereo makes me think you were a very naughty boy in the 1980's
You could also use nails that have same thickness to remove your stereo unit.
Great video Ian. Loved the reminiscing chat to camera over Goodman and Sony radios!
When I was a student 40 years ago! and 'borrowing' my Mum's 1970 Rover P5B Coupe 3.5 litre, I fitted a stereo radio cassette in place of the radio it had. I wired it in in the college car park and the first cassette album I tested on the unit was New Music's album 'Anywhere', the first track being 'They all run after the carving knife' the first 35 seconds intro of the track make it sound as if your stereo is faulty, playing slow and muffled, heart stopper, just my luck as a first track to test. The Rover had a speaker above the stereo & one central rear speaker below the parcel shelf, with a fader control and rear footwell heater fan control on the rear floor so I had front to rear rather than left to right stereo! My next car was a fantastic Rover 3500s manual P6, with a speaker in each door that with its webasto full fabric sunroof, 4x ET hearests and V8 engine that was a stunning car with music to match
I think everyone over 50 would have had a cassette deck in their car and bought big speakers to sit on the rear parcel shelf. I expect everyone had a stereo stolen as well! Mine was stolen from my MK1 Escort. My brother's from his 1973 mini ( bought in 1985).
Best of times,driving with your mates in the car playing your new album recorded onto C90 tape and all singing along.
Great fun as always Ian 🙂
Steelies look great too, but in silver or something darker like gunmetal would be nice too, not fan of green steelies 😄
What a lovely bus 😀
Those steelies were BLACK originally. Gunmetal would look cool, though... I may need to buy some paint...
I fitted my first new stereo for several years recently and was surprised at how tiny it was with no cd or cassette space required.
When you were in the back fitting the rear speakers 5:20 I noticed the back seat with its headrest elevated looked like a Star Wars character… 👍🏻
Ah, recording cassettes in the 90's. I suspect I spent a good chunk of my teenage years doing that. Mixtapes. What a great pastime
Keep the old wheels for winter tyres?
Personally, you won’t go far wrong with Goodyear Vector 4seasons, as an all year tyre.
Can't beat Goodyear tyres.
All most excellent. I think you're going to love Blingo!
I’ve used the HubNut fitting Guide,2lb Lump hammer, screwdriver, Gaffer tape. Hay Pressto, And it’s fitted. Thanks🏴🚙⛺️
Happy days watching this and I remember those tiny rear speakers from our Berlingo when our boys were very small. They insisted we never parked it near their school or friends. A Green as aerodynamic as brick French Van with windows was not even then considered cool. Been driving with our Niece in her little 1.2 Corsa. She just passed her test and that little car has an amazing stereo plus a little iPad sized display screen. Our old Berlingo had a cassette as well….How many young kids now would even know what a cassette is?
You should have gotten the RED one. Just hum 'Postman Pat', and suddenly it's the coolest car EVER!
(In fact, the post here in Norway used a fleet of Peugeot Partner, many even 4x4 Dangel editions, to deliver the mail until not too many years ago. They may have a few left, still)
So pleased the Berlingo is behaving and responding to your ministrations. If it were one of MY cars, it would see this as an opportunity to bring more things that need replacing to my attention by making them fail.
I too have had sporadic success with the so-called 'adapter' looms. Sometimes they work fine, other times they have wires that the stereo does not or vice versa.....or like the one you showcased, decide that working as they were meant to is just too hard. Sometimes the little tines inside them need a tweak, but often one still has to resort to the tried and true small bank of plastic screw-in-to-join-up-wires block and some insulation tape or shrink-wrap joins. Honestly, you'd think that since they've been making car stereos for aeons that they would have figured out a standard for ease of installation of after-market units.....but that would be akin to something similar to a public service - and that's Just Not Done.
Loved the sound of the gears on that old bus, mate. Reminded me of the buses I used to get home to the little seaside village I lived in as a kid from where I worked in the big city when I first started work back in 1985. They were big old Bedfords with the huge straight 6 and a manual gearbox that seemed to be only once removed from a crashbox. It had a lovely sound to it and all and more than once I fell asleep listening to the whines as we went up and over the hills, stopping every so often and would then have to walk home from the bus station instead of my normal stop! The wipers on those old buses were independent and some had the driver's one at the top and the kerbside one at the bottom, so there was really no synchronisation between them at all, but that's what made them fun to watch. Those old wiper motors had a sound all their own too.... The bus also had a speedo that went up to a max of 35mph and I remember on one trip, listening to this quiet but regular pinging noise about once every half second every time we got moving, so peered over the driver's shoulder to see what it was and movement on the speedometer caught my eye. He'd start the old bus off and the speedo needle would start to bounce and once she got to about 10mph, the needle was swinging wildly in a full sweep from 0 to 35 and hitting the stopper at each end. That was my pinging noise!
Anyway, written enough now. Glad the Berlingo is working out, It's early days yet, but sounds like she could be a great fit - especially if it avoids certain undesired travel-related issues with the Hublets. My eldest suffered greatly with motion sickness as a kid and we discovered that by putting her in the front seat so she could easily see outside the car in multiple directions (and seeing forward being the one that causes less disturbance of The Force), our family travelling experiences were virtually devoid of explosive encounters of the child kind. Travelling in the darkened evening was still not good, but if it were after 8pm and she was tired, she would often fall asleep, so issue resolved itself. Now 21, she still suffers from it when a passenger, but it is less of an issue.....and no issue at all when she is driving. All the best!
Kaleidoscope Orchestra. So brilliant.
Iv been using citreon vans and dealing in parts for over 20 years and those 2.0 hdi units will run forever as long as they are serviced REGULARLY. That means all fluids and ALL filters. And they really do benefit from having good decent engine oil put in them, not cheap crap!!! And it's always worth flushing the coolent system and refilling using something like Halfords advance antifreeze, that's the red stuff. Do all those things and your van will love you for it and you'll be able to drive it for years to come....🙂
Never had a problem with Sony's, today jvc,kenwood joined company. Have upgraded kenwood in my car ,love the bass and clarity.
Lovely tinkering. Keep up the good work.
I couldn't live without cd.
My 96 Honda Legend has a cassette player and I just used a Bluetooth transmitter that fits in the ashtray and it sounds great. Even has a sub and amp, sounds clear. The transmitters have come a long way.
U will fall in love with that car the more u use it and see how capable they are.
Good call to change the Joyroad tyres - I had some on my Berlingo van and they were terrible. Very little grip in the dry and frankly scary in the wet!
Years ago a friend thought all tyres were the same and fitted the cheapest to their van. Then, for some reason now forgotten, a set of decent Michelins were put on it and they were staggered by the improvement.
That second compartment for the new stereo turned out to be very useful. Hidden away too.
Great job Ian. I thought it was going to go horribly wrong, but It’s a goal!
I love the bus video ! The lovely sound of a Gardner diesel
Worryingly competent! With family space and that sort of mpg, it really seems ideal for your needs. There is a white Berlingo that lives just up the road from me, and that has silver steelies with wheel trims. Looks good. One small "mod" that I might be inclined to do, is to replace the interior lights with LED modules. Especially the ones over the load compartment. It just makes life so much easier in the darker months of the year, when moving stuff in and out of the vehicle. LEDs are so much brighter.
This has dimming lamps. Will those work with LEDs?
You are loving this car!
The best sound was the AEC gearbox whine,what a lovely old bus.
Hubcaps would be nice, if possible! Wasn't that MG lovely with hubcaps instead of ubiquitous minilites.
I have hubcaps and beauty rings on my 240. Much prefer them to alloys (plus all the Volvo ones from that period are pretty ugly anyway).
What thoroughly enjoyable watch.
Hi Ian, I'm not sure why your videos are so compelling and enjoyable. You just seem so likeable. If I ever get to Wales from here in New South Wales and I bump into you I'll try not to assume we know each other even though it feels like I do.
Much enjoyed this one, you are good company as well as instructive.
My "Head Unit" is making me laugh ! Good on ya, Top Man, Ian !!!
Taking me back to when I updated my stereo in my Fiat Regatta in the mid-nineties. Sony head unit and Goodmans parcel shelf speakers for some bassy sounds 🙂
When I think about some of the cars I sold in my 23 years of driving I could cry!!
You have just taken me back to changing the radio in my Talbot Horizon to one that had a cassette player. There was no standard wiring in them days so a lot of guess work. But it did only have two speakers at the front.
«Error 404» You cannot imagine how I laughed… 😆😆😆
Hi Ian for future use, iso type head unit blocks a straighted paper clip or similar tool will easily enable you to swap the pins over in the plug housing by releasing the simple locking tang. No need to snip and chocbloc.
I bought not so long ago on Alie some tools to remove pins if needed in connecter, very useful, about or under 10 euro's when I bought it. Chockbloc in a car is a no go unless you are testing it first.
Fitted a Goodmans radio/ cassette to my first car ( Renault 4 tl ). Chewed a good few tapes during it’s life. 🏴
Love the tinkering videos! Keep up the great work Ian 😀😀
Another gem from the bodge masterl your a class act ian
Rewiring for idiots - use an adapter loom. Lovin' it. The days of using block electrical connectors to rewire a radio are well and truly over, along with soldered pipe connections.
Congrats on the end result, I can imagine your frustration with that connector block but it was lovely to watch the whole process. I like cassettes in cars as well but do find the rattling noise that unused ones make while driving extremely irritating.
Superbly addictive organised chaos. 👏👏👏👏
Beautiful AEC Regent Ian ...I remember them in Ipswich ...simply gorgeous buses 🚌 😍 ❤️