Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

Hi there. After several years of twiddling the tone knob in vain on my R760 to get better sound out of my decent-ish aftermarket Alpine speakers I’ve decided to invest. I’ve bought a Philips R960 which looks identical, has separate bass and treble setting, and doesn’t have half the buttons glued in like on my radio. These R960s I believe have input for remote steering wheel controls.

I have seen that some Rover R3s have an identical looking steering wheel with remote volume control. Does anyone know if there is a standard loom you can fit to an R8 to get these to work? The wheel has horns so is there something you’d need to change on the steering column to have these radio signals leave the wheel. Is there a special loom from the steering column? Lots of questions!

Several years ago in 2016 I found on Ebay a steering wheel with its remote device plus harness for my 'modern' Pioneer Bluetooth USB radio in my 2002 25.
I've even noted the ref: PC99X32 in case it might be useful.
I've partially succeeded with only the volume up and down. I'm happy with that.
This old thread could help you: https://www.mg-rover.org/threads/stalk-adapters.279715/

That’s great to hear. Volume is all I’m after. I have a Bluetooth transmitter which the radio will be tuned into. As the car is less quiet than a modern one I find myself adjusting the volume all the time.

I’ve just bought a £20 steering wheel from a Rover 25 to look at the steering wheel controls - I may need an older control which pairs with the older radio but I can then see if I can adapt my steering wheel to fit the controls at least. I’ll need a different “clock spring” on the steering column which covers horn and radio controls. I’ll see what’s possible but I’m not even sure which pins on the radio I’d need to wire into yet.

Thanks for the link - I’ll have a good read