ISO kit on a 2001 Td4 - HELP!!!!

I've been trying to buy a steering wheel control cable for my Pioneer head unit.
I removed the Land Rove stereo that was in the car when I bought it which the steering wheel controls worked fine with.

I bought an Autoleads cable and Pioneer patch lead from eBay, chose the 2001-2003 BMW round pin connector, took the stereo out & found it has flat blade ISO connectors.

I sent the Autoleads back asking for the flat blade type and they sent me a Defender cable.
Having checked on eBay it seems my type of cable (standard ISO type) doesn't exist in any Freelander, so someone has already had a play with it!

I can plug it directly into my Pioneer head unit without any adaptor but whilst everything works, it won't allow me to control it using the steering wheel controls.

I decided to see if I can match the colours on the existing wiring loom in the car to those on the Autoleads cable I was sent to see if I can get that to work. If I can match them up I can put the blade pins into the corresponding order of a female ISO socket I have laying around rather than cutting and soldering it in permanently.

Only problem is I don't have a clue which colour wires do what on the Freelander!
Can anyone confirm for me which colour wires do what?

On the Autoleads cable I have:

White = Front Left +
White/Black = Front Left -
Green = Rear Left +
Green/Black = Rear Left -
Grey = Front Right +
Grey/Black = Front Right -
Purple = Rear Right +
Purple/Black = Rear Right -

Black = Earth
Yellow = 12V Memory
Orange = Illumination
Red = 12V IGN
Blue = Antenna Remote
Red/White = ??? (it goes into the Autoleads Resistive Module)

On the ISO cable in the Freelander I have:

Grey/Black = Speaker?
Grey/Pink = Speaker?
Yellow/Black = Speaker?
Yellow/Pink = Speaker?
Orange/Black = Speaker?
Orange/Pink = Speaker?
Blue/Black = Speaker?
Blue/Pink = Speaker?

Black = Earth
Green/White = ????
Red/Orange = ????
Black/White = ????
Purple = ????
Black/Red = ????

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated!!!

you will need this one
In Car Entertainment, Bluetooth & Multimedia fitting solutions and interfaces

my 2001 had the BMW connector and i ended up with the wrong one because i bought it for the 2000 freelander which has the same wiring as yours and then my TD4 needed the round pin one

EDIT is this link any good to you


http://incartec.co.uk/Instructions/29-610_Landrover.pdf

matt1295 said:

my 2001 had the BMW connector and i ended up with the wrong one because i bought it for the 2000 freelander which has the same wiring as yours and then my TD4 needed the round pin one

EDIT is this link any good to you


http://incartec.co.uk/Instructions/29-610_Landrover.pdf

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Incartech is the way to go, ^^^^ as above

Incartech cable arrived.
Plugged it in and all worked...kinda!
The volume up/down buttons both turn the volume down. The fwd/rev buttons both turn the volume up & a short press on the mode button skips back while a long press on the mode button skips forward.

But it's better than the switches doing nothing at all!

duncanpage4 said:

Incartech cable arrived.
Plugged it in and all worked...kinda!
The volume up/down buttons both turn the volume down. The fwd/rev buttons both turn the volume up & a short press on the mode button skips back while a long press on the mode button skips forward.

But it's better than the switches doing nothing at all!

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contact them, if you haven't already, I'm sure they will help sort you out.

Epicuser said:

contact them, if you haven't already, I'm sure they will help sort you out.

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Thanks for the suggestion.
I contacted them today and they're sending out a new "dongle" which tells the device which buttons control what!
All I have to do is solder it in place of the other one and it should work fine.

Changed the dongle and all works perfectly!
Sooooooooo nice not to have to reach that extra 12" to change the tracks and volume!
Yes, I'm that lazy!

Glad you got it sorted. I't's nice when they work