Hi Line problem - help welcome!
 

Hi All,

I'd be interested to know if anyone has had a similar problem to mine, and if so how you might have fixed it?

Basically, the fault I've got, which started out intermittently, gradually got worse, and now is constant, is that I have no sound at all (tv, satnav, radio, tape), and cannot select anything to do with music on the head unit, although I can still get TV and Satnav (both silent). Also, the little orange light by the on/off button no longer lights up.

Firstly, what I know it isn't! Thanks for a kindly fellow 260 owner letting me rip his car to bits, I've tried my head unit and my radio in his car, and they are both working fine, although I'm kicking myself for not trying the TV tuner, as even though that appears to be fine, what's the betting that will now prove to be the problem!

This only leaves me with two options I can think of - the wiring or the amp.

I had assumed that the problem was the radio unit, as I know they can be an issue, and all the symptoms sound like it. I therefore bought a second hand BM24 unit. When I plugged that in, I got sound for a few seconds (although still no orange light or controls at the head unit), which makes me think the wiring could be OK, so this would suggest the amp as the problem?

One issue here is that I can't try Mark's amp, as they are different from saloon to tourer, and I don't know anyone else near me well enough to ask them if they'd mind me taking out their satnav to get to their amp and then giving it a try!

Before I get a replacement amp (only £80 or so, thus not the end of the world if it proves to be working and I have to flog the spare on Ebay) does anyone have any ideas of anything else I can test?

Had a similar problem with my current car. Sat nav and tv came on but no orange light on the on/off button and no sound.

Was told by fellow members was probably the radio module which had got damp over time due to water ingress into the boot area.

Replaced damp Philips module with a Japanese Alpine radio module (thanks to a fellow member) and, hey presto, SOUND!!!! :lol:

Been fine ever since...

That was what I'd expected, but sadly not in my case, as I know the radio modules (I now have two!) both work!

I'm pretty sure the connections on the amp are the same, it's the physical size that's different

No, there are four different amps - tourers with/without satnav and saloons with/without satnav.

The reason there is a difference between the tourers and saloons, as I understand it, is because the saloons have two sub-woofer speakers driven by the amp, whereas the tourers just have one.

The above only applies if the Harmon Kardon option is fitted,
otherwise the Radio has its own separate Tuner/amplifier in Boot/Rear of load area on Tourer.
Are you using a BM24 for Amp/Tuner or the HK Option?

I've got the Hiline and the Harmon Kardon, so there's both a radio unit in the boot, and also an HK amp. The BM24 is a straight swap for the MGR tuner in the boot, both of which, as I understand it, then feed through the HK amp.

I was under the impression that the saloon set up has two sub woofers fitted on the assembly where as the tourer has two voice coils in the one speaker.
So it uses the same amp?

Please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

I wouldn't know at that level of detail. I just know there are 4 part numbers, and this was the reason I was given for why.

Different Amplifiers for Saloon and Tourer I'm afraid.