I shall try to get a better look tomorrow. It certainly isn't in keeping with the rest of the vehicle and the car phone is the only after market addition I have found other than what appears to be an older hands free kit (microphone on dash and speaker under drivers seat) which might be connected to the car phone anyway as there is no obvious mobile connection.
It's probably the proper car-phone interface for the cellular side (I would imagine).
Nokia made a hands-free kit which had the speaker on the driver side somewhere and a microphone, usually on the driver's A pillar. This (in it's standard guise) was wired to a cradle for a nokia mobile phone.
However, there was a separate 'car phone' which had it's own SIM card in it (rather than a clip-in mobile to a cradle) - so I presume this had another box of tricks to connect all that up. Another owner who I've done a bit of work on his P38 for him has one of the actual car-phone units installed (and still working!) but I haven't had to dig about in the loadspace before, so I don't know where the control box is located for it...
Reminds me of the Ericsson car kit we had in company vehicles many years ago. Rip it out......
I pulled the head unit today and discovered that it appears to have two aerial leads going into it, are they both aerials? If so, which do I reuse?
Also found more hateful scotchlocks:
This fuzzy object was floating around in the cavity:
Is it supposed to be attached to this?
Finally, with the aftermarket Android head units, does anyone know if the original CD multi-changer can be made to work with them?
Smiler.
You can use either aerial - I think the red taped one is the main though... but they are part of a diversity system, so both go back to an antenna and antenna amp, so should work just as well as each other.
The fuzzy object... is the internal cabin temp sensor, that is supposed to be mounted behind that grille, yes.
Android units and CD stacker... no, I don't think it is possible for them to be connected and work. Most of the android units have a couple of USB connectors (some even have a microSD card slot on the front too) which you can load up a lot more music than would fit on 6 CD's ;)
I pulled my CD stacker out when I put aftermarket head unit in and use the space as extra storage under the sub!