[MatthewL]

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!

[Dorchester]

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/