(Home) Radio, cassette & cd

I want to remove the Radio from my Townie, and replace it with a CD Tuner, but I want to keep the original cassette deck/amp unit, does anyone know the wiring diagram for the cassette deck, so that I can wire in parallel with it to the power supply (OK that bits easy with a multi meter) and the speaker wiring, colour codes for the speakers is what I'm really after, thanks. Regards Rob. - (#1628) Rob Drinkwater, 14 Dec 01

Bad practice to wire any speaker outputs in parallel. If the cassette has the amp built in why not take a line-level output from the cd/tuner (most have a pair of phono leads these days)
Toyota seem to have odd ways of doing things, you'll need to trace the wiring carefully if you're trying to adapt factory to non- factory. - (#1630) david miller, 15 Dec 01

My Liteace came with stereo cassette and amp but both were in a pretty poor state so I fetched them out and fitted CD/radio. The wiring harness was pretty horrific and I ended up tracing all the wires uasing a multimeter. It also had no rear speakers, so I found out alot about the wiring. On my model, there was actually a plastic connector which you could connect to if you had the right female connector to suit, but trying to find the info was almost impossible, and in the end, I used strip connectors and a lot of patience. It was worth it though! - (#1633) Eagleneil, 15 Dec 01