Car CD player

[chimney]

My CD player in my car always restarts the CD from the start whenever the car is started where as all my friends CD players start their CD's from the point it was turned off. What's the problem with mine?

[andy-hughes]

It needs to be re-wired. It's wired to the main ignition, so it re-sets itself every time you switch the engine on. Any radio fitter will fix it - two minute job.

[BreenM]

I'm guessing it's been wired in manually rather than using standard ISO plugs. There will be a constand live wire somewhere in there somewhere and this should be taped up to the appropriate wire on the stereo. If I remember correctly from doing a couple of my stereos in the past it will be red to red as the constant live and I think a yellow to yellow too. I think. You will probably notice you keep losing your radio station settings too if you have them set. Hope this helps.

[JimmyK]

thinking of a simple solution first, maybe its designed that way (or your mates have newer ones where restarting at the last point... which needs a memory function.... is designed in)
only consider wiring problems once you have decided whether it loses alll the radio stations in its memory when the ignition is switched off. if it does lose all the radio presets, then the radio's memory connection (permanent 12 volts NOT via the ignition switch), is not connected correctly.
I think that vauxhall's wire their permanent live and switched live connections the opposite way to most other car manufacturers.

[thebhoy]

pull the stereo out! the wires coming from the unit should have a yellow and a red wire they usually nowadays come with bullet connections so it is easier to solve this problem as different makes of cars wiring varies! if they do just swap the red and the yellow with each other and that should be it ( i take it iso's are used in this case and not manually wired up as said by BreenM ??? )

[JimmyK]

I really don't understand why people are saying pull it out and check the wiring.

the easy investigation (involving no tools to extract the unit, or risk of wires dropping out if the wiring has been patched in and secured with sellotape, like one of mine was) is to decide whether the unit retains its radio station memory. this involves no risk of the fuse blowing if the permanent live drops out and shorts to chassis, no need to patch in any other wires that have been bodged in, no trip to get extractors, no trip to the car radio shop, and no fee for a possibly nugatory "investigation" by some guy who is paid an (exhorbitant) hourly rate.

if it retains its radio station, its not to do with the wiring to the memory connection, and the reason it resets to the start is because its not designed to return to the last known track.