Hey everyone,
I hope this post will help someone out and save them some time.
I recently purchased the 2015 M8560 with the ultra grand cab. It comes with a slot for a radio/cd player. The guys I bought it from more or less steered me away from Kubota's radio and said I'd be better off with a cheaper and better player from the local Best Buy. So I bought a $100 dollar Sony car stereo and set out to install it.
You will find behind the pop out cover that there is a large antennae wire and a wiring harness with several small colored wires that goes to a male square plastic plug.
This harness plug did not match my radio so I had to cut it off and wire it to the harness that came with my radio. The antennae radio plugged into my player fine without any alterations.
Here's where I first went wrong! One of the wires is a "constant power wire" that goes back to the battery to allow your clock and stereo settings to be stored. If you cut all of the wires at once you will almost certainly short a wire and blow one of the fuses. That's what happened to me. I spent hours checking my wiring thinking I had messed it up only to find it was a fuse that I had blown. This can be avoided either by individually cutting the wires so it doesn't short out or disconnecting the battery terminals before starting.
For what it's worth, my wiring colors on the tractor were as follows:
Black = ground
Red with Black stripe = constant power (to battery)
Blue with yellow stripe = ignition power (powers unit when tractor is on)
White and White with black stripe (rear left speaker +ive and -ive respectively)
Yellow and Yellow with black stripe (rear right speaker +ive and -ive respectively)
The car stereo wires were not color coded to kubota's wiring but the installation instructions that came with the radio labelled them simply enough.
Notebly, when I first started troubleshooting my problem, I checked the "radio" fuse on the fuse panel thinking that If I had blown a fuse that would've been the one but it wasn't. It was some other random fuse (I forget which one) that went. So if you're having the same problem as me make sure you check them all. I used a little 4 dollar fuse tester which saved me from having to pull each one and visually inspect them.
Good luck
I hope this post will help someone out and save them some time.
I recently purchased the 2015 M8560 with the ultra grand cab. It comes with a slot for a radio/cd player. The guys I bought it from more or less steered me away from Kubota's radio and said I'd be better off with a cheaper and better player from the local Best Buy. So I bought a $100 dollar Sony car stereo and set out to install it.
You will find behind the pop out cover that there is a large antennae wire and a wiring harness with several small colored wires that goes to a male square plastic plug.
This harness plug did not match my radio so I had to cut it off and wire it to the harness that came with my radio. The antennae radio plugged into my player fine without any alterations.
Here's where I first went wrong! One of the wires is a "constant power wire" that goes back to the battery to allow your clock and stereo settings to be stored. If you cut all of the wires at once you will almost certainly short a wire and blow one of the fuses. That's what happened to me. I spent hours checking my wiring thinking I had messed it up only to find it was a fuse that I had blown. This can be avoided either by individually cutting the wires so it doesn't short out or disconnecting the battery terminals before starting.
For what it's worth, my wiring colors on the tractor were as follows:
Black = ground
Red with Black stripe = constant power (to battery)
Blue with yellow stripe = ignition power (powers unit when tractor is on)
White and White with black stripe (rear left speaker +ive and -ive respectively)
Yellow and Yellow with black stripe (rear right speaker +ive and -ive respectively)
The car stereo wires were not color coded to kubota's wiring but the installation instructions that came with the radio labelled them simply enough.
Notebly, when I first started troubleshooting my problem, I checked the "radio" fuse on the fuse panel thinking that If I had blown a fuse that would've been the one but it wasn't. It was some other random fuse (I forget which one) that went. So if you're having the same problem as me make sure you check them all. I used a little 4 dollar fuse tester which saved me from having to pull each one and visually inspect them.
Good luck
