Modern vehicles are more and more built with technology and although this brings us comfort, we regrettably as well suffer the cons. Most of us are not comfortable with anything electrical on our Opel Insignia, let alone going near the fuses on it. In this post, we will try to help you to fix your fuse problems and especially to find the car radio fuse on your Opel Insignia. To get this done, first, we will see in which situations it might be relevant to change the car radio fuse of your Opel Insignia, then where is the car radio fuse of your Opel Insignia .
Why change the car radio fuse on Opel Insignia?
So let’s start our content on the location of the car radio fuse of your Opel Insignia by the interest of changing it. You may possibly feel like your fuse is blown but you’re not sure. It is important to know that a fuse works as a safety device to prevent overvoltage on your Opel Insignia . It will be a resistor, of a filament, more or less thick, which will let pass a certain tension and which will break if the tension is too strong. Hence the fact that they are transparent, you can check them and check that the filament is still intact. In general, you will want to change the fuse of the car radio of a Opel Insignia when it will no longer work for no apparent cause . If your battery is working properly, it might be the fuse that is leading to your issue.
Where is the head unit fuse on Opel Insignia?
We will now search for the fuse in the head unit of your Opel Insignia . The fuse is generally a 15 amp fuse, blue in color. However, depending on the kind of car radio you have it can be in two different locations. It is quite often connected to the 12-volt sockets on your centre console. We will see the two places where the fuse of the car radio of your Opel Insignia can be discovered.
Setting the fuse of the original car radio to Opel Insignia
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If you still have the original head unit on your Opel Insignia, your fuse should be in the interior fuse box of your vehicle . It should be behind a plastic cover near your driver’s seat. Please seek advice from your vehicle manual if you can’t locate it. Here are the steps to stick to for the rest of the procedure:
- Read the manual on the fuse box cover to locate the fuse of the car radio of your Opel Insignia , it should be noted as “radio” or “sound system”
- Take out the car radio fuse cautiously and check its status.
- If it is defective, replace it with a new fuse , otherwise take your vehicle to your auto mechanic so that he can have a closer look at the cause of your issue.
- After you change the car radio fuse, reassemble and test your car radio.
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Fuse replacement on a head unit of a different make on Opel Insignia
At last, we’ll see the case of a car radio bought in the shops, and how to locate the fuse of the car radio on Opel Insignia in this scenario . Here are the different steps you have to stick to to access this fuse:
- Take out the car radio from your Opel Insignia , usually you’ll have to use a punch to unlock the brackets on all four corners of the radio.
- At the rear of the car radio of your Opel Insignia, you should see on the power supply wires a single black fuse box, open it, it is in it that you will locate the fuse of the car radio of your Opel Insignia
- It’s a clear glass fuse, so now you’ll be able to change the fuse on your Opel Insignia
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You now know how to locate your car radio fuse , if you are looking for other fuses like the starter fuse on Opel Insignia, or the horn fuse, don’t think twice to seek advice from our articles dedicated to these fuses.
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