I try and get another go tomorrow and play around with my tester... I'll report back with the results for the pins you mentioned...
Thanks chaps.

Would a poor ground cause the fuse to blow do you think ??

OK, more research has revealed that the white/red stripe and white/blue stripe is audio input left and right...

Red/green is battery 12v

White/grey with yellow bands is Ibus

Brown (pin 3) is earth screening for p.c.b (whatever that means)

Brown (pin 8) is the main earth

The two brown/white wires are audio left and right grounds...

So at least i now I know what all the wires are

Car is a 2004 model year...

From what I've worked out from searching the Web is,

The white/grey with yellow bands is the ibus... this should be live as it is..
The red/green is the battery 12v.
The browns are indeed earth's, brown is always earth. And any wire with brown on it is related to earth somewhere...

So what are the other two, white with blue stripe and white with red stripe....

So some pics...

This is the ten pin plug that goes into the changer
The two wires to the left are both live..

The brown wires are earth's I'm guessing. When I put a bell tester between them and the chassis I get a beep, although the reading is over 200 ohms (not sure what that means to be honest)

There's also this three pin plug... seems strange that three wires go into it but only two come out...

It worked... lol....

Anyway, if you hadn't guessed, that's my car...

I'll add some pics of my wiring/plugs in a min.

Hi guys,
Firstly, I'm in March so not far from Yaxley GilbertD.

I'm having some wiring issues...
Basically the CD changer was missing from the glove box when I got the car... all the wires and plugs were present, just no changer...lol...

I purchased a reconditioned unit from a chap on ebay but when I plugged it in the fuse (fuse no' 40, 5amp) blew. I then tried a larger 10 amp fuse and that blew too...
The seller of the changer assured me it's not an issue with the changer (although I expected him to say that) and thinks it might be an issue with my wiring...
I've got a few pics to help explain, how do I go about uploading them to here.. I tried the usual way of copy/paste the IMG code from photo bucket but that didn't work...

Hello guys, my name is Matt and I live in a small town in Cambridgeshire.
I was directed here by a chap on another forum and told you lot are a little more helpful than the place I was at....lol....

Anyway, firstly I'll have to admit, I don't own a P38, I recently purchased a 2004 vogue.....

And although I know this place is primarily for P38 owners I hope It's OK to sign up...

I'm having cd changer issues so I'll start a thread in the appropriate place and hope someone here knows what's what...

Thanks chaps.
Matt.