Sorry, a little background is in order. I recently bought a '95 325ic which the
previous owner had a BMW/Pioneer changer installed 3 years ago. Owner says the changer worked with Alpine radio (stock). The day before I p/u the car the battery goes dead and the radio goes "SAFE". The display is blown out anyway so I pull it out and chuck it. I get another Alpine C33 on Ebay and install it. When I hit
the "TAPE/CD" button is only says "no tape". I cannot get it to play CD's at all.
Changer has power and ejects the catridge but does not make any noise when
putting the catridge IN to the changer (I don't know if this is normal or not).
I checked continuity on each pin on the cable going from the radio to the changer -all good. I figure the radio must be bad and I get another one and it does the same thing. I figure that it has to be the changer. I'm ready to ship it out to Pioneer today and last night I see a guy on Ebay selling the same Alpine C33 and it specifically says that it will NOT operate a changer. I'm 95% certain that the radio I pulled out was a C33 because I think that's how I found the other ones on Ebay, but I'm beginning to wonder if I have a radio which is setup for the '96 +
wiring which is why the radio won't recongnize the changer. Because I didn't have the code for the original radio and it was shot anyway I never actually tried it with the changer. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated - I'm stumped.
previous owner had a BMW/Pioneer changer installed 3 years ago. Owner says the changer worked with Alpine radio (stock). The day before I p/u the car the battery goes dead and the radio goes "SAFE". The display is blown out anyway so I pull it out and chuck it. I get another Alpine C33 on Ebay and install it. When I hit
the "TAPE/CD" button is only says "no tape". I cannot get it to play CD's at all.
Changer has power and ejects the catridge but does not make any noise when
putting the catridge IN to the changer (I don't know if this is normal or not).
I checked continuity on each pin on the cable going from the radio to the changer -all good. I figure the radio must be bad and I get another one and it does the same thing. I figure that it has to be the changer. I'm ready to ship it out to Pioneer today and last night I see a guy on Ebay selling the same Alpine C33 and it specifically says that it will NOT operate a changer. I'm 95% certain that the radio I pulled out was a C33 because I think that's how I found the other ones on Ebay, but I'm beginning to wonder if I have a radio which is setup for the '96 +
wiring which is why the radio won't recongnize the changer. Because I didn't have the code for the original radio and it was shot anyway I never actually tried it with the changer. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated - I'm stumped.