Vw T4 Cali Westfalia Radio Upgrade

[WhimDynastyT4]

Hi everyone, (This is a long 1, sorry)

I’ve recently been gifted a new Pioneer radio for my 30 year old camper and I am trying to install it to no avail, I will attach pictures.

I’ve bought an adapter but I was hoping for some guidance in regards to the wiring already inside the van at present and hoping to find someone with experience of having done the same thing to a similar model.

When I got the van it has a Panasonic already installed which I assume was installed by the previous owner.

The first picture is the current wiring; the grey connector is for the Panasonic radio and the brown connector isn’t plugged into anything but it fits 1 end of my adapter(Picture 2)

Picture 3 is the Pioneer radio connector.

Anyway the golden question is I assume the adapter I have at the moment is incorrect for a successful pair up as it has 2 female ports and I only have 1 male connection (the brown unconnected connector in picture 1) the 2 male and female connectors of the pioneer and the apdater fit perfectly it’s connecting the adapter to the actual vehicle that I think is the problem,

(picture 4 is the work space I have to work with as I am trying to install this without ripping out the full dash port)

Can anyone make heads or tails of how I would connect this or am I at a loss here and should just return the gifted radio.

Any help greatly appreciated and sorry for the long winded ramble.

Whim.

 

[WelshGas]

Hi everyone, (This is a long 1, sorry)

I’ve recently been gifted a new Pioneer radio for my 30 year old camper and I am trying to install it to no avail, I will attach pictures.

I’ve bought an adapter but I was hoping for some guidance in regards to the wiring already inside the van at present and hoping to find someone with experience of having done the same thing to a similar model.

When I got the van it has a Panasonic already installed which I assume was installed by the previous owner.

The first picture is the current wiring; the grey connector is for the Panasonic radio and the brown connector isn’t plugged into anything but it fits 1 end of my adapter(Picture 2)

Picture 3 is the Pioneer radio connector.

Anyway the golden question is I assume the adapter I have at the moment is incorrect for a successful pair up as it has 2 female ports and I only have 1 male connection (the brown unconnected connector in picture 1) the 2 male and female connectors of the pioneer and the apdater fit perfectly it’s connecting the adapter to the actual vehicle that I think is the problem,

(picture 4 is the work space I have to work with as I am trying to install this without ripping out the full dash port)

Can anyone make heads or tails of how I would connect this or am I at a loss here and should just return the gifted radio.

Any help greatly appreciated and sorry for the long winded ramble.

Whim.

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So did the old Panasonic not have an adapter harness?

 

[Ch1pbutty]

Nip down to Halfords, they usually have a selection of harnesses. Just match it up to what you have.

 

[WhimDynastyT4]

Update @Ch1pbutty @WelshGas

So turns out the original owner has cut into wires to fit the Panasonic and therefore Halfords won’t fit anything with tampered wires, I was lucky enough that the store specialist was very informative in terms out how I can get it to work so I need to cut and crimp the wires on my adapter I bought to fit it into the original owners shitshow luckily it’s only 3 wires and seems pretty straight forward. Slight fear I make a mess of it though and then neither radios work (Lol)

 

[WelshGas]

Update @Ch1pbutty @WelshGas

So turns out the original owner has cut into wires to fit the Panasonic and therefore Halfords won’t fit anything with tampered wires, I was lucky enough that the store specialist was very informative in terms out how I can get it to work so I need to cut and crimp the wires on my adapter I bought to fit it into the original owners shitshow luckily it’s only 3 wires and seems pretty straight forward. Slight fear I make a mess of it though and then neither radios work (Lol)

That explains why the adapter won't fit. Good luck, I'm sure it will work out alright.