Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
#1
Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
Ok I Wannaget This Straightend Out Once And For All....Heres the Story When I Bought My Car Everything Worked Fine... I Got An AfterMArket Cd player And Had It Installed... Got The Adapter blah blah... And Ever Since I Installed the cd player witht he adapter The Instument Fuse Was Always Blown.. All The Instrument Lights Were Out *(Gauges, Consol Lights, Window Buttons Ect..) On The Adapter on the Car Part There Were 2 Orange Wires... Didnt Know What to do with.. The Wires Were called Illumination... The Solid orange i grounded as wut i was told to do and the other did nothing just taped it off or somthing i think??... But I think I finally got the guages to come on when i hooked up some way?? and didone of the orange wires to the red wires?? but the instrument fuse was still blown no matter wut... (put fuse in and auto popped) but the stuff all worked except the dinging if you shut ur car off with ur lights on... but i didnt care... i painted my interior one day and all the gauges and instruments went out again... so i just replaced the cd player... and wired everything back up... Now the instrument fuse hasnt blown with a new fuse in it.... but also nothing works still... no dinging with lights left on and all instrument lights??? i dunno if its somthin with the orange wires or if it could be some kind of connection.... i just want it fixed... Plzzz Help Asap THANK YOU
#2
RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
Those illumination wires are for the dimmer switch in your car so that you can dim the HU when you dim the dash lights. Most people don't worry about them. If you have them hooked up to anything other than the dimmer- unhook them.
Do you have the chassis of the HU grounded? The antenna usually will serve this purpose, but when things are funny, it's usually aground.
Do you have the chassis of the HU grounded? The antenna usually will serve this purpose, but when things are funny, it's usually aground.
#3
RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
If Your Talkin About the Black Wire The ground... yea It Should Be Ground Since its hooked up with the black of the adapter from the car... so yea.,... i guess ill check it out.... other suggestions would be sweet.... thanx!!!!!!!1
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RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
BTW when my gauges worked when i rigged a orange wire to the red one the dimmers didnt work they were just on... the dimmers only worked with the stock stereo... problems became when i hooked up the adapter and installed the aftermarket stereo... might be loose conection somewhere?? cuz my gauges one time went on and off... out of no where...?? but i dunno wut to do or wut to look 4?? also when i first installed the aftermarket head my headlights didnt work.. but we did somthin and they worked and no problem since then.... I just checked the wires and the 2 orange wires are taped off by the selves not hooked up to anything so should i do somthin with them or what do u suggest??? thanx SOO much!
#5
RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
well if neither diming wires are hooked up then forget about them! i never hook them up!!!! see thiers two ways of dimming which is why thiers 2 orange wires.. one is for getig constant power which dims the headunit fully... other wire is for dimming manualy with your adjustable dimmer wire...
but i never hook them up anymore cause they are just anoying... and not needed!!!!!!!!!
but if your stock dimmers still arent worken.. ya might have fried the dimmer switch.....
kinda confused by what yoru problem is now....
but i never hook them up anymore cause they are just anoying... and not needed!!!!!!!!!
but if your stock dimmers still arent worken.. ya might have fried the dimmer switch.....
kinda confused by what yoru problem is now....
#6
RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
Ok lemmee Get This Clear...My gauges And all Instrument lights Dont Work.. (Consol, All Little ***** Buttons... Window Buttons.. Anything That Light Up) Dont Work Now?? But Also The Dinger Sound 4 When U Leave Ur lights On Dont Work... Before I Installed my New Headunnit that i hooked up yesterday the Instrument Fuse Was Always Popped No Matter Wut Size fuse You Put Into it... It Popped As soon as You Put It In... Now I Put A Fuse In And It Doesnt Pop... but Nothing Works Still?? I dunno I Dont feel its the dimmer system?? 4 some reason but it might??? Is there ANy Different Things i Can Try or Any suggestions for wut i should do???? I Hate Driving with no gauges.... Thax!
#7
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well sounds to me like ya fried the dimmer switch...
and with replacing fuses NEVER FUSE THEM HIGHER THAN THATS STATED ON THE FUSE BOX!!!!!!
ANY HIGHER AND YOUL LJUST TRY RAELY JACK UP YOUR CARS WIRES!!!!!! THOSE WIRES ARE ONLY RATED SO HIGH..... and higher and most likely youve melted your stock wires!
and with replacing fuses NEVER FUSE THEM HIGHER THAN THATS STATED ON THE FUSE BOX!!!!!!
ANY HIGHER AND YOUL LJUST TRY RAELY JACK UP YOUR CARS WIRES!!!!!! THOSE WIRES ARE ONLY RATED SO HIGH..... and higher and most likely youve melted your stock wires!
#8
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Ok Well Wut The Hell Does That Mean???? I Just Dont Understand Why he CD PLayer Works Perfectly Fine.. But The Instrument Lights Just Dont Work... They Have Been Hooded Up Like That For Like 8 Months Now ANd The Gauges Just Went Back out Maybe A Week Ago... SO i Dout ANything IS Fried... but Anywayzz What Should I Do????????????? Thanx!!
#9
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to hard to say...... how was your radio instaled? just wires twisted or actualy crimped together?
if they where working fine and they just now went out after you NOT doing anything... then my guess is ya didnt tape up the wire from the harness and it touched some bare metal at night shorting out the wire and blew the fuse again...
if the fuse is still good then id say thiers another problem like the dimmer control or something else thats been hacked up...
if they where working fine and they just now went out after you NOT doing anything... then my guess is ya didnt tape up the wire from the harness and it touched some bare metal at night shorting out the wire and blew the fuse again...
if the fuse is still good then id say thiers another problem like the dimmer control or something else thats been hacked up...
#10
RE: Head Unit Help! ~A.S.A.P~
ORIGINAL: Bostonhoodhop
Ok I Wannaget This Straightend Out Once And For All....Heres the Story When I Bought My Car Everything Worked Fine... I Got An AfterMArket Cd player And Had It Installed... Got The Adapter blah blah... And Ever Since I Installed the cd player witht he adapter The Instument Fuse Was Always Blown.. All The Instrument Lights Were Out *(Gauges, Consol Lights, Window Buttons Ect..) On The Adapter on the Car Part There Were 2 Orange Wires... Didnt Know What to do with.. The Wires Were called Illumination... The Solid orange i grounded as wut i was told to do and the other did nothing just taped it off or somthing i think??... But I think I finally got the guages to come on when i hooked up some way?? and didone of the orange wires to the red wires?? but the instrument fuse was still blown no matter wut... (put fuse in and auto popped) but the stuff all worked except the dinging if you shut ur car off with ur lights on... but i didnt care... i painted my interior one day and all the gauges and instruments went out again... so i just replaced the cd player... and wired everything back up... Now the instrument fuse hasnt blown with a new fuse in it.... but also nothing works still... no dinging with lights left on and all instrument lights??? i dunno if its somthin with the orange wires or if it could be some kind of connection.... i just want it fixed... Plzzz Help Asap THANK YOU
Ok I Wannaget This Straightend Out Once And For All....Heres the Story When I Bought My Car Everything Worked Fine... I Got An AfterMArket Cd player And Had It Installed... Got The Adapter blah blah... And Ever Since I Installed the cd player witht he adapter The Instument Fuse Was Always Blown.. All The Instrument Lights Were Out *(Gauges, Consol Lights, Window Buttons Ect..) On The Adapter on the Car Part There Were 2 Orange Wires... Didnt Know What to do with.. The Wires Were called Illumination... The Solid orange i grounded as wut i was told to do and the other did nothing just taped it off or somthing i think??... But I think I finally got the guages to come on when i hooked up some way?? and didone of the orange wires to the red wires?? but the instrument fuse was still blown no matter wut... (put fuse in and auto popped) but the stuff all worked except the dinging if you shut ur car off with ur lights on... but i didnt care... i painted my interior one day and all the gauges and instruments went out again... so i just replaced the cd player... and wired everything back up... Now the instrument fuse hasnt blown with a new fuse in it.... but also nothing works still... no dinging with lights left on and all instrument lights??? i dunno if its somthin with the orange wires or if it could be some kind of connection.... i just want it fixed... Plzzz Help Asap THANK YOU
It sounds like you had better let a shop install it for you, and clean up some of the miss-wires back there. Testing theories on wiring is not the best way to fix a problem, but its a great start to shorting out the head unit for good, and or causing fires in the cabin. I would pay 20 or 30 bucks and let someone do it, at least you can sue them if anything goes wrong.