Auto Shipping Blog » HD radio http://autoshippings.com Auto Shipping, auto transport, vehicle shipping and anything else about cars or automobiles. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How To Hook Up A HD Radio http://autoshippings.com/2010/02/23/how-to-hook-up-a-hd-radio/ http://autoshippings.com/2010/02/23/how-to-hook-up-a-hd-radio/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:49:00 +0000 Amanda Leer http://autoshippings.com/2010/02/23/how-to-hook-up-a-hd-radio/ Before we start off writing the directions on how to hook up an HD radio to your car, we must know the meaning of the HD radio. It is a service that delivers digital audio by the radio stations especially FM radio. Generally the HD radio has two parts in the installation. One is its head unit. This head unit is generally fixed in the car by the factory and has all the necessary controls to control the audio. The second part is the radio. This is connected to head unit for controls. This HD radio is not available with all factory cars and is optional. The interested people have to buy it separately. There are other types of radios like satellite radio. This radio need to be fees for use. Unlike this, the HD radio is does not require fee.

This article will list all the things that are required to install a HD radio and also the proper procedure to install the same to your car. Installing a HD radio to your car is simple thing to do and you need not search for an engineer or a mechanic to do this work. By doing this work on your own you can save your time and your money. The things that are required are the radio and an electrical tape. Make sure you have an electrical insulation tape of good quality to be in safer side.

As a first step the negative terminal of the battery in the car is disconnected perfectly for safety reasons. Antenna jack from your HD radio is connected to the antenna of the car. Do not connect the same to the antenna input of the head unit.

The black coloured wire is connected from the back. A clean and paint less metal location is selected. Wiring has pieces coming with it. The yellow coloured lead is connected to the twelve volts constant supply terminal.

Then, the cable which is also known as IP-BUS cable is connected with blue connector, to multi CD player if present. This cable is then connected to head unit. It is connected to blue connector which is found on this head unit. This connector on the radio is actually black in colour.

A cable called the IP – BUS cable is connected with the cable. This is a blue converter. The other end of this is connected to the other end of the head unit. If there is a multi player then one can even fix it to that. The black color in the HD radio indicates the connector\’s presence.

All the white and blue wires that are coming out off it should be properly connected and it must be well secured. The documentation of the car can be cross checked with this one. Then all the wiring are sealed well with electrical tape. Later as the last step the battery of the car can be re installed and a proper test can be carried out with the radio that is newly installed.

Thus this article explains How to Hook Up an HD Radio to Your Car easily.

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